Richard Garriott to Recieve Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 9, 2006 @07:49AM from the take-ultima-and-put-it-online dept.

GameDev.net has word that Ultima series creator Richard Garriott is set to recieve the Lifetime Achievement award at this year's GDC. From the article: "Son of Skylab and Spacelab astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Richard took an interest in computers at a young age. He began programming games in high school and produced his first published game, Akalabeth, at the age of 19. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Garriott began developing one of the most successful, longest-running game series of all time: Ultima. Garriott and his brother formed Origin Systems, Inc. to begin publishing their own games, and the company was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA) in 1992."

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Titled mispelled... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-09 08:25 · Score: 1, Informative

"I" before "E" ... _except_ after "C"!
1. Re:Titled mispelled... by Taulin · 2006-03-09 14:32 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  ..what about 'Their'?
Re:Awesome by terrisus · 2006-03-09 08:39 · Score: 2, Informative

While I haven't spent as much time with them as I may've liked, the Ultima series of games is still one of my favorites.
Definitely a great line of games. I really like Ultima 4 in particular.

Also, there's an Ultima Collection CD, which contains Ultima 1-8 and Akalabeth.
For anyone looking for some of the best of Richard Garriott in one place, this is a great way to get them.