Soryu Dragon did what he does earlier this week:

Anniversary #UltimaIX @ultimaaiera @RichardGarriott @UltimaReturn @UOHerald @UltimaCodex @EA @Inside_EA @GOGcom @UltimaForever

— Mav Mandeville (@SoryuDragon) November 25, 2013

That’s right…Ultima 9, the last entry in the single-player line of Ultima games, came out fourteen years ago as of about Sunday this week.

And hey…I have something to mark the occasion with. Check out this video:

It’s a…tour of the Origin Systems offices that German gaming magazine PC Games received back in 1996. There’s a lot of different stuff that gets covered — we see footage from one of the Longbow games that Origin developed, for example, and some discussion of Ultima Online with a staggeringly young Starr Long — but around the 8:30 mark there is some grainy footage of the isometric 3D version of Ultima 9, as well as a few of the CGI cutscenes that were made for the game.

And…oh heck, why not? Here’s PC Games’ tour of Britannia Manor. This has been sitting — languishing — in my Pocket queue forever. Now’s a good time to share it as any: