I thought that Questron wasn't actually sued for being what it was but licensed the whole look and feel thing? It's funny, I was telling my wife about Legends I/II for the TI taking "inspiration" from Phantasie I/II and she asked how SSI didn't sue. I said it probably helped that it wasn't immediately obvious from a visual standpoint, more from a conceptual and mechanical standpoint, meaning you had to be intimately familiar with the Phantasie games AND still be active in the TI community to both see and play the game, something rare for an owner of one of those other computers by then since the platform was "dead" long before Legend's 87/88 release (interestingly, Phantasie III was released around 1988, the last game until Phantasie IV's Japanese-only release several years later). Certainly Gates of Delirium's own seemingly low production run and relatively low profile gaming platform must have worked in its favor, particularly since by 1987 the Ultima series itself had moved on to more ambitious things (with the pending release of Ultima V in 1988). It's actually refreshing that back then these lesser games weren't targeted by publishers/developers like SSI and Origin, as there really was little to no impact on their game's sales or IP's, which is really all that legal action would help to mitigate anyway...

======================================
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
======================================