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Ultima VI: The False Prophet, released in 1990 by Origin Systems, is a role-playing game where you navigate Britannia to establish peace with gargoyles. The game is known for its technological advancements, including a seamless world map and improved graphics.

Ultima III: Exodus, #PC 1983

#20VideoGames #UltimaIII #UltimaIIIExodus #RetroGaming #OriginSystems #RichardGarriot #VideoGames #PCGame

A screenshot of the video game Ultima III. A top-down view of an EGA graphics world with terrain of different types with the player's party centered.

A trilogy of trilogies #originsystems #ultima

The popular space trading and combat simulator game Wing Commander: Privateer was released 30 years ago this week.
Cover art by Chris Douglas.
#scifi #wingcommander #privateer #originsystems

More #Ultima love added to #TheVideoGameLibrary thanks to James Crosby from the community!

Manuals, guides and interviews for Ultima I-IV, all packed into this 220-page Japan-only release! 📚

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-genesis-of-ultima

#Ultima1 #Ultima2 #Ultima3 #Ultima4 #UltimaI #UltimaII #UltimaIII #UltimaIV #OriginSystems #MMO #MMORPG #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Gaming #PCGaming #PC #AppleII #Akalabeth #RetroGaming #DungeonCrawler #RPG #Gamer #Computing #RetroComputing

some #obscure #UltimaOnline #RetroGaming #history

back in the late 90s, when #uo's playerbase was exploding, player-built houses were both a convenient secure location, and a social signal of personal wealth. when a new shard (server) opened, players would race around the map trying to find legal "placements" for house deeds... areas where you could erect a home that had flat land, and no rocks or trees in the way. open land was truly scarce, and competitions to place a house were fierce.

to combat the real estate rush, #OriginSystems implemented a "decay" mechanic that would make your house collapse/disappear if it was unoccupied for a few weeks. thousands of homes disappeared this way, to the extreme frustration of the player community.

in the late 90s, a player placed this tiny single room house on the Napa Valley shard, between the towns of Minoc and Vesper. it remained occupied for years, until it was converted into a "public house" without locks. the house still stands to this day, 24 years later. it is one of the longest standing player-built homes in the history of the #mmorpg.

read the entire story here, as told by /u/MacroPlanet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/comments/1097crs/rediscovering_old_places_in_uo_napa_valley/

A screenshot of Ultima Online, showing a character riding a horse, standing in front of a small single room house. The house sits between a bridge and a mountain cliff, with trees around it.

By popular demand (thanks to @vga256), have catalogued "The Official Guide To Ultima" into #TheVideoGameLibrary.

Both the 1st and 2nd Editions are listed. Everything you'd ever want to know about the saga circa 1992.

What's your favourite #Ultima game?

👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-official-book-of-ultima

#UltimaI #UltimaII #UltimaIII #UltimaIV #UltimaV #UltimaVI #Gaming #VideoGames #VideoGame #PC #PCGaming #OriginSystems #RichardGarriott #AppleII #C64 #Commodore64 #FMTowns #MSX2 #PC8801 #PC9801 #SharpX1 @bookstodon

English book cover of the first edition of The Official Book of Ultima by Shay Addams. The cover uses the same art as the box art for Ultima VI: The False Prophet, with a knight, sword and shield in hand, standing overtop a dead red gargoyle. Towards the bottom of the cover, two more illustrations depicting the covers of Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny in which a red-clad knight stands between a wounded woman and 3 hooded figures, and Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness in which a knight riding a black horse battles a metallic dragon emerging from lava.

huge thank you to keenan weaver over at the excellent echo sector site for discovering and sharing this major #OriginSystems #RetroGaming find.

the Crusader series turned out to be a major hit for the embattled company in the mid-late #90s

Crusader 2 never made it to market. now we can finally try it out in pre-pre-alpha form for the #psx!

https://www.echosector.com/2022/12/crusader-2-psx-pre-pre-alpha-recovered-and-released/

A photograph of an origin systems cd-rom that reads Crusader 2 PSX Pre-Pre Alpha

🚨 BOOK NEWS 🚨

Andrea Contato is crowdfunding an English translation of his #VideoGame history book.

"Video Games: The People, Games, and Companies" is a five-volume set that traces #Gaming history through to 1999.

The #Kickstarter for the Stage One translation (from Italian), is up right here:

👉
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1108065491/the-inside-story-of-the-birth-of-microcomputer-games?ref=checkout_rewards_page

Also be sure to check out his first 2 books about #Ultima and the history of #OriginSystems:

Part 1: https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/through-the-moongate-the-story-of-richard-garriott-origin-systems-inc-and-ultima-part-1

Part 2: https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/through-the-moongate-the-story-of-richard-garriott-origin-systems-inc-and-ultima-part-2

The covers of 3 books from Andrea Contato. They're titled "Video Games: The People, Games and Companies" Stages 1, 2 and 3. Each cover is a collage of different eras of video game history.

Okay, here's a sample post for you to share, @gamecollectors

The (functional) radiation detector batch that shipped with Bad Blood.

#OriginSystems #BigBoxPCGames #Retrogaming

Front of badge has a rad dot attached and shows a stylised person in a hazmat suit. Text reads 6502nd Infantry Div

#Bullfrog classics Syndicate Plus and Syndicate Wars, and two spin-offs from #OriginSystems' Ultima series: Ultima Underworld 1+2, temporarily free re-release bundle on GOG

#Ultima #UltimaUnderworld #Syndicate #SyndicatePlus #SyndicateWars #FreeGames #GratisGames #free #gratis #games #gaming #WindowsGaming #GOG #GOGcom