#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

[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.

[the-ancient-sector-blog]

Playing some Ultima. I put these games off forever because of how old they were and fear they might be too hard for my smol brain. So far I'm enjoying 1! I can for sure see how Yuji Horii got inspired by this to make Dragon Quest in Japan.

One of these days I'll do a deep dive into the series and it's fandom in Japan. I know Ultima Online was very popular and still has a dedicated fanbase on the Japanese servers.

[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”. 

[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.

[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.

[oldschoolfrp]

1985

World Map from Ultima 4 source: https://ultima.fandom.com/wiki/Ultima_IV_Map_of_Britannia

[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)