Originally Posted by
Edmond Dantes
Ultima III for NES is pretty much the only one that's an unambiguous improvement over the original. More dialogue, better graphics and some rebalancing, while still being essentially the same game underneath. All the other Ultima ports for NES and SNES made drastic revisions to the gameplay, often for the worse. The SNES ones were all basically turned into Zelda clones and there was a lot of censorship involved (so instead of investigating a murder in Ultima VII, its a kidnapping... although since this was a lazy rewrite, you never actually find the guy).
I actually was at a local game shop recently and someone sold the owner DQ V and VI, cart-only. I was there when the sale was made. Grab or no grab?