Tagged: Origin Systems

February 13, 2015

Ultima Underworld Retrospective at Roberts Space Industries Website

Cloud Imperium Games hosts people from Portalarium and OtherSide Entertainment for a look back at the Ultima Underworld games.

Ultima

February 3, 2015

New Gallery: Ultima 8 Patch Diskette and Notes

Rustic Dragon passed along some images of a mailout of an Ultima 8 patch diskette, complete with patch notes.

Gaming / Jeff Wofford

January 15, 2015

Jeff Wofford On “The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer”

Former Origin Systems programmer and manager Jeff Wofford takes a hard, sober look at the state of game development, and the plight of those who attempt to build a game by themselves.

Origin Systems / Ultima

January 6, 2015

Play Ultima 6, Savage Empire, and Other Origin Systems Classics In Your Browser Now

The Internet Archive has published a trove of over 2,000 MS-DOS games which can be played in a browser window. Several Origin Systems games, some Ultima titles included, are in the collection.

Origin Systems

December 21, 2014

Eurogamer Reports on Origin System’s Unmade and Rejected Games

Eurogamer is running an article about a few games that were pitched at Origin Systems, but which either never got made or were rejected outright.

Bill Randolph / Interviews / Ultima

December 5, 2014

Interview with Bill Randolph

Bill Randolph graciously took over an hour out of his busy schedule to chat with us about his work at Origin Systems, especially on Ultima 9. He answered a number of questions about the game and its development, and shed some new light on its difficult development.