Funny, that's exactly what happened to me: played Ultima on my old '64 when I was 13, this got me into programming BASIC (argh, blae, yuck) to render Ultima maps for printing, then I reprogrammed the 2D view of U3 (which only showed parts of the landscape not obstructed by mountains), learned to optimize this via lookup tables and finally made the big leap and started programming in assembler to speed everything up.
Now I'm sitting here on my butt, earning money by software development.
So I can truly say that Ultima influenced my life.
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in the german text it's "DNS-Einträge" which means "DNS records". Didn't know how creative Google can act.. :)
Now I'm sitting here on my butt, earning money by software development.
So I can truly say that Ultima influenced my life.
Kudos to Richard Garriott aka Lord British!