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Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years
Lanxon writes "The guy behind Ultima Online once bought an old Russian rover, despite it being lost on the moon somewhere. And now, using images released by NASA, it has been located on the moon's surface after nearly four decades of being MIA, reports Wired. Richard Garriott, who created the Ultima Online multiplayer game, bought the Lunokhod 2 in a Sotheby's auction in New York in 1998. And so new was the discovery of his lost possession, he hadn't even heard that the craft had been discovered when Wired spoke to him."
(Richard Garriott is also well known as Lord British.)
Wouldn't that then make him a government hence annulling his claim?
Which would then mean he isn't a government and then can validly make such a claim? /rinse and repeat /divide by zero
"Lord British"? Seriously? I thought Yahtzee was joking.
And now we have people who just know Lord British as "a guy that Yahtzee has once mentioned". *sigh* Where is this world going to?
amusing that that's his byline these days. didn't anyone play Ultima or Ultima ][, three or four on their ][+?
Yes, but he is still vulnerable to falling gold plaques, enraged catgirl goddesses of luck, and Chuck Norris.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
He also hasn't made a noteable game since 1997 (or 1999 if you consider Ultima IX noteable), at best 11 years ago. While I instantly know who Lord British is, he is far from a household name to someone who was 3 when Ultima Online launched.
That's right, it's happened to you: you got old.
Huh? We do that on a daily basis. What do you think our whole capital system based on credit is?
Capital and money for that matter, regardless of it being fiat or backed by precious metals), are fairly arbitrary metrics and behave as a virtual good.
But this guy is largely famous for creating the Ultima franchise, which is basically all but dead, because EA sank their fangs into Origin Systems and killed the company.
EA owns the Ultima IP. They also own Bioware, perhaps the number 1 Computer RPG shop on the planet.
Richard Garriott isn't doing anything these days, and I imagine most gamers have never played a single player Ultima these days.
The original Ultima games are barely playable today. The original trilogy is a little too straight forward, full of continuity holes, etc. He wasn't planning a lengthy franchise at that point.
They need to remake the Ultima franchise from the beginning. Arguably they could just use the Dragon Age engine and toolset that Bioware just developed, though I would hope a proper Ultima game would have one seamless world as opposed to maps like Dragon Age. Someone needs to make this happen, like yesterday.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
It's all bullshit anyways. Until you actually have military presents (boots on the ground), the Moon doesn't belong to anyone regardless of what fuckall a contract has to say.
Life is not for the lazy.
"I thought Yahtzee was joking."
Dude you need to turn in your geek card and walk right out the door. You're too ignorant of our world to be here. And if you don't know of Lord British, you're likely too young to boot!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Sheesh.
He owns a vehicle on the moon, yet STILL hasn't put out a decent successor to Ultima Online!
Talk about fucked up priorities.
...I just wanted to get that point across just in case our overseas friends think that we're all loonies with too much money.
Two words Richard: "TABULA RASA".
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