garriott – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Origin Sells Out

On September 6, 2019 By Jimmy Maher

One day in early June of 1992, a group of executives from Electronic Arts visited Origin Systems’s headquarters in Austin, Texas. If they had come from any other company, the rank and file at Origin might not have paid them much attention. As it was, though, the visit felt a […]

Scientology and the Fellowship

On March 1, 2019March 2, 2019 By Jimmy Maher

The people who believe in the Guardian, the masses who believe in him, are completely good people who are completely duped. And so this cult religion is building, in belief of the Guardian and the Guardian’s ends. The lowest level members of the Fellowship, which is this organization that […]

Ultima VII

On February 15, 2019February 16, 2019 By Jimmy Maher

From the time that Richard and Robert Garriott first founded Origin Systems in order to publish Ultima III, the completion of one Ultima game was followed almost immediately by the beginning of work on the next. Ultima VI in early 1990 was no exception; there was time only for a […]