Probably just Mandela effect. I also remember this message that apparently doesn't exist. I was also a big player of Ultima VII so maybe my mental wires are crossed as the article suggests.

I remember it distinctly, as well. Crazy.

It’s also worth noting that it wasn’t exactly uncommon to have messages like that on exit. Apogee games did it a lot I seem to remember. Lots of DOS/4GW stuff too.

So the memory is… primed, so to speak.

Master Of Orion II (1996) has that when you exit the game as well, plenty of games did it during that time period.

I can see if my floppies still work (they probably don't) and see if it's different from the GOG/Kilrathi Saga versions.

Misremembering, of course. Our memories are notoriously unreliable, much more so than we'd like to think. Thes kinds of messages used to be not unusual, and the simple act of reading the story is plenty enough to generate a false or mixed memory recall.

What happens is someone writes an article that retcons reality to their version. Happens all the time.

I suspect they're using a much later release of the game. The versions most readily available online came much later.