One Book, Three Richard Garriott Stories
David L. Craddock’s new book — Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution — contains a number of stories about Richard Garriott and Origin Systems. Here are three of them.
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Richard Garriott Reflects on Forty Years of Game Development
GamesBeat sat down with Richard Garriott at Gamelab Barcelona for a wide-ranging interview about his life and his career in game development.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 86 – Learning Through Games: The Pixel Generation
It’s really the perfect name for the generation between Generation X and the Millennials; we grew up playing video games.
Richard Garriott and Warren Spector Discuss Mentoring Members of Arkane Studios
Gamespot talks to Richard Garriott and Warren Spector about their mentorship of key players at Arkane Studios.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 80 – The Three Ultimas on Every Top 100 List
In which we examine — and sass — IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time list.
Even More Arthurian Legends Plot Documents!
A small trove of plot documents for the cancelled Arthurian Legends, which give more insight into some of the quests and locations planned for inclusion in that game.
New Gallery: MAKEFACE Instructions
Instructions on how to build and use MAKEFACE, Origin Systems’ utility for building NPC portrait data files for Ultima 7.
Ultima 7: The Black Gate Was Released 25 Years Ago
Ultima 7: The Black Gate, was released 25 years ago, on April 16th of 1992.
The Digital Antiquarian Looks At the History of Ultima 6
Jimmy Maher gives us a lengthy and insightful look at the development history of Ultima 6, as well as its reception, and how it changed things at Origin.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 77 – Anniversary Bash 2: Blackrock Boogaloo
Because one episode wasn’t enough to cover everything that was awesome about the Ultima Dragons Anniversary Bash.
EA Rejected the Ultima Online Pitch…Three Times
Richard Garriott discusses the difficulty Origin Systems had when pitching the concept of Ultima Online to EA.
