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11 unusual facts about Richard Garriott


Chuck Bueche

Bueche was a high school friend and university roommate of Richard Garriott in Austin, Texas.

Garriott

Richard Garriott (born 1961), British-American video game developer and entrepreneur

Lord British

Lord Cantabrigian British is the name of the fictional ruler of Britannia, kingdom of the fictional world of Sosaria, created by Richard Garriott for his computer game series Ultima.

Shortly before the incident, the server had crashed, and Richard Garriott had forgotten to set his invulnerability flag on when logging on again.

Ultima series creator Richard Garriott acquired the nickname "British" as a teenager from friends at computer camp who claimed his first greeting to them, "hello", was distinct from the American "hi"; The "Lord" prefix was added when he played the dungeon master in Dungeons & Dragons games.

Luna 21

Luna 21 and Lunokhod 2 were purchased by Richard Garriott in December 1993 at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Trade Wars

When the developer, Realm Interactive, was acquired by their publisher, NCsoft Austin (Richard Garriott/Destination Games), development of "Exarch" was discontinued.

Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar

This is due to Richard Garriott retaining the trademark rights after he left Electronic Arts.

Ultima Worlds Online: Origin

About one-third of the team that worked on UO2 joined Destination Games to work on Richard Garriott's MMORPG, Tabula Rasa.

Ultima X: Odyssey

Ultima X: Odyssey was the first Ultima game developed after series creator Richard Garriott left Origin, and is the second Ultima-based MMORPG to be cancelled (Ultima Worlds Online: Origin — Ultima Online 2 — was cancelled in 2001).

WidowPC

The articles stated that Michael Dell contacted WidowPC, along with Richard Garriott and Robert Garriott and several other small, high performance boutique computer manufacturers for information about the computer gaming niche several months prior to acquiring Alienware.


Software developer

Some of the notable software people include Peter Norton (developer of Norton Utilities), Richard Garriott (Ultima-series creator), and Philippe Kahn (Borland key founder), all of whom started as entrepreneurial individual or small-team software developers.