Well, I don't know how famous Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 were when they came out (91 or 92 I think), but they are both very nice games. In the first game you are cast into a dungeon, and have to find a prinsess down there if you ever want to get out. Both games are freeroaming and you can go everywhere you want to inside the dungeon.
They are both 1. person dungeon crawlers and lots of stuff that can be done in them. They are rather unike in some ways also. You have to find special crosses that are scattered around some places in the dungeon to increase your stats, and when you find these crosses, you have to write special words to increase the different stats. You will find what you need to write, written in scrolls, books or on walls, so you get more options for increasing your stats as you go further down the dungeon. Spells are cast using runes, and you also have to find out what runes to use for the different spells (you put the runes that you find in a special rune bag that you get near the start). There are a also a lot of small things that makes the game more fun, like you need to eat, you need to sleep to regain health and mana, you can use a stick to reach some buttons you wouldn't otherwise reach, you can find a fishing pole and go fishing, if you find an instrument you can play it using the buttons 1-0, and you can somtimes break up locked doors if you don't have the key or can't lockpick them (usually best to just use your hands since weapons get damaged in the game, and can break, and the most damage comes from hitting walls, doors, and other hard stuff). So you might find use for some of the crappy stuff you find in the dungeon (like a simple wooden stick).
The dungeon itself is also rather interresting, since not all the inhabitants are hostile. You will find small societies of goblins, humans, dwarfs and lizardmen down there, and maybe even more since i haven't even gotten that far in the game :). You can talk to these inhabitants, sometime get quests and also trade with some of them, but at the point where I am now, I have to learn the language of the lizardmen from a deaf man, so I have to talk to the lizardmen, and then head back to the guy and write the words to him. He then tries to explane the words with his body since he can't talk, and I have to make the best of it so I can understand the lizardmen, since most of them can't speak my language though they do understand it. Also if you feel like it, there is nothing stopping you from massacre every living thing in the dungeon. There are no respawns as far as I know, and can be a good thing since you feel like you actually have done something drastic down there in the dungeon instead of meeting the same monster or human if you go back to some place. The place stays as you left it, and so do the items you left there.
The attack system is fairly simple using the mouse, as an example you get 3 types of attacks with sword, swing to the side, slash down or stab. You hold the mouse button and then release (if you don't release right away you get a stronger attack). There are no stats that tell you how good each weapon or armor is as far as I know, so you have to guess a little. But its not always that hard. I'm fairly sure that a chainmail gives better protection than a leather armor :D. Both the games are freeware and not hard to get (just google), then dosbox to play them. I know I didn't say much about the second game since I haven't played it as much, but they seem to be rather simular in many ways. The graphics in the games are also rather good for their time.
Kinda thougt I would give some info for the games instead of just the name if someone would be interrested in playing them ;)
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