Ultima VIII: Pagan is a role-playing video game, released as the eighth part of the Ultima series. Released in 1994, it is a DOS-only title and is also the first game in the series to be rated M in No
Ultima VIII box cover
The Avatar in dialogue with the Titan Lithos. Ultima VIII uses an isometric third-person view similar to Ultima VII.
Ultima 8 being played in the Pentagram open-source project. It includes an automap, shown here.
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.
Ultima VIII: Pagan
…away from Britannia, the scope of the game was drastically reduced, and the puzzles were more like what you'd expect in a game like Prince of Persia. Richard Garriott later said he delegated most of the work on Ultima VIII to others: "I sacrificed everything to appease stockholders, which was a mistake. We probably…
Garriott, dressed as his "Lord British" persona, at the 2018 Game Developers Conference
Richard Garriott (far right) aboard the ISS on October 23, 2008, with the MIT SPHERES Satellites.