#richard garriott

[theactioneer]

Akalabeth: World of Doom (California Pacific, 1980)

[oldschoolfrp]

Cloth map of Sosaria included with Ultima III: Exodus, Origin Systems (1983), drawn by Helen Garriott, mother of Richard Garriott/Lord British

[kaiyves-backup]

Sending people party invitations that contain codes telling you to hold the paper over fire (but not burn it) and then put it in the freezer to get the real message convinces me that Richard Garriott is the kind of person edutainment games, books, and cartoons were warning us about.

[ultimacodex]

If You Haven't Checked Out Majuular's "Ultima" Retrospectives, You Really Should

Majuular's has been publishing video retrospectives of the "Ultima" series; he's already done the first five games, with more to come.

YouTube streamer Majuular‘s channel is full of retrospectives of many classic games, but recently his attention has been on the Ultima series. He’s covered Akalabeth and Ultima 1, Ultima 2, Ultima 3, Ultima 4, and (most recently) Ultima 5, and delves into significant detail about each game. The earlier videos run to about an hour in length; the two most recent ones clock in at nearly two hours.…

[generallemarc]

You've heard of Lord British, now get ready for:

The link won't display it, but he's also styled as Lord German. This is the one man who can kill Lord British without needing exploits, provided he can strike quickly before he loses to superior airpower.

[kingofdoma]

battle of the richardgars let's go

[justwatchmyeyes]

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. ~ Richard Garriott

[linusjf]

Richard Garriott: Preparation and opportunity

“Luck is the intersection of preparation and opportunity. Opportunities parade past all of us all the time. The key is that you must be paying attention to see them, you must be willing to take risks, you must expose yourself to the possibility of massive failure and you must believe in what you are doing so much that you do it anyway.” —Richard Garriott.

[oldschoolfrp]

Denis Loubet box art, which prompted some hate mail to Lord British/Richard Garriott from the satanic panic true believers

UK 1985

[donb]

Ha ma az ember rákeres a fent említett Richard Garriottra, gyakorlatilag az első nagy sikerű grafikus online multiplayer szerepjáték megálmodójára, a magyar nyelvű Wikipédián azt találja róla, hogy „Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (Cambridge, Anglia, 1961. július 4.–) angol–amerikai űrturista. A 6. űrturista”. Alatta, az életpályájánál: „videójátékokból szerezte vagyonát”. Ami pontosan olyan, mintha Szent-Györgyi Albertről azt írnák, hogy „Nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre (Budapest, 1893. szeptember 16. – Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1986. október 22.), hobbimotoros. Az egyik első híres magyar hobbimotoros”. Majd alatta, az Életpálya alcímnél: „Nobel-díjából szerezte vagyonát”. 

[oldschoolfrp]

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar by Lord British (Richard Garriott), Origin Systems Inc, 1985, Denis Loubet box art. The game package included a cloth map of Britannia and a metal ankh.

[writergeekrhw]

Which video games have you been playing lately? Any recommendations? (Also, I know you and Alexander Siddig have talked about how you were playing the same video game, I think it was Ultima Online?, during DS9 but didn't know. How did you first figure that out? I just love that story, thanks)

I honestly haven't played much. No time. I pretty much quit playing video games, especially MMOs, when I dropped WoW to write my Billy Smith and the Goblins novels.

Sid and I figured out we both played UO when I attended one of his SidCity Social Hours to celebrate his birthday, and Richard Garriott, the producer of the franchise, was also a guest.

[kaiyves-backup]

I remember reading for years about how this movie couldn’t be released because of rights issues with the various space agencies but that it was groundbreaking for these reasons and starred the astronauts I was familiar with. By the time it finally did make its way online, I don’t think anything could have lived up to the hype I had for it in my head.

And, well… it’s a home movie. It’s about the same as any silly movie you made with your siblings or friends on a camcorder as a kid, except it was made in space. It’s exactly what any space nerd in 2008 would imagine from the phrase “Mike Fincke trying to act in a home movie”.

Apogee of Fear

The first science fiction film made in space. Filmed by Richard Garriott creator of the Ultima videogames series. It was written by fantasy novelist Tracy Hickman.

The film's principal photography was accomplished during Garriott's time aboard the International Space Station as a spaceflight participant on October 12, 2008.

There's a lot of folks talking about 'when will the first fiction movie be shot in space' going around on clickbait fandom blogs. The answer is 'already has been'

[ultimacodex]

Andrea Contato’s New Book, “Video Games: The People, Games, and Companies - Part II”, is Crowdfunding an English Translation

Andrea Contato has launched a fundraising campaign for his next book about video gaming history. Back it today!

Andrea Contato, as you may recall, is the author of Through the Moongate, a two-volume book that chronicles the history of Origin Systems and Richard Garriott’s career as a game developer. He is also the author of a five-volume work, published (or soon to be published) in Italian, on the history of video games and the gaming industry. The first volume was translated into English and published…

[swordquest]

RICHARD GARRIOTT'S TABULA RASA (2007, NCSOFT)

[moonwatchuniverse]

40 years ago Seiko A829 alarm chronographs in space NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, who had flown on the Skylab space station (1973), seen onboard space shuttle Columbia mission STS-9 in November 1983. Note the Seiko quartz Alarm chronograph with dual LCD screen, a watch which was worn on spaceflight missions between 1983 and 1996. During the October 2008 Soyuz TMA-13 mission, Owen Garriott's son entrepreneur Richard Garriott flew as spaceflight participant onboard the International Space Station, wearing 2 Seiko SpringDrive Spacewalk chronographs. These Seiko watches were worn during the December 23, 2008 EVA-spacewalk by cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov and returned to Earth in April 2009. In this way, Seiko became one of 12 wrist watch makes directly exposed to outer space! (Photo: NASA)