They're just mad because all of the space craft in Utlima were in Russia.

Lord British?

If only those astronauts had Vanq weapons to deal with the aliens...

/Siege Perilous a loooong time ago.

whatshisname: Lord British?

You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

whatsisname, he makes the ultima games, a world ruled by lord british, which is his self insert gary stu.

One of the reasons I never even tried to work at NASA. ALL their management have inanimate carbon rods stuck up their asses.

He is already here.

/honk
//HONK

oooOOOOOooooOOOoooOOOOOOOooooOOOOooOOOOooo!

FuturePastNow: whatshisname: Lord British?

You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

AfroX: Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.

Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

By walking through a moongate and killing the evil wizard Mondain. That is why he's king.

I bet it's all Blackthorn's doing!

/Will he stop at nothing?!

Lord British! I loved his adventure programs. Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia I think there were 7 versions in all. Had an Apple ][ Plus with 48K of memory and spent weeks of late night concentration, high on Bud (beer, not weed), playing that game in my garage. I don't know if this was the beginning of the RPG games, but for me, it was the best.

PizzaJedi81: AfroX: Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

GT_Frog: PizzaJedi81: AfroX: Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

GT_Frog: GT_Frog: PizzaJedi81: AfroX: Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

Bloody peasant!

I'm sure it's NASA blocking the release and not some scheme to drum up interest. Positive.

GT_Frog: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

Shut up! Shut up!
*Pushes GT_Frog away.

Gwyrddu: GT_Frog: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

Shut up! Shut up!
*Pushes GT_Frog away.

Help! I'm being oppressed!

No. 4 the larch.

NAME
I'm Lord British
JOB
I'm a spaceman
BYE

Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty knife.

Gwyrddu: Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

By walking through a moongate and killing the evil wizard Mondain. That is why he's king.

No, no, that was the "Stranger" who killed Mondain (at Lord British's request). Lord British just drove Mondain from Akalabeth and thus became king.

The real answer is that he made the world, therefore he is whatever he wants to be.

I didn't notice any mention of release for money (profit? ummm no?). Surely it's not a security issue with the images of the electronics so he must just want to show off.

/cut the scenes with the nauts and let her fly

Iolo and Shamino? What about Dupre?

Um, this is currently showing at the Detroit Institute of Arts, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
http://www.dia.org/calendar/event.aspx?id=3041&iid=

Rich Cream: I didn't notice any mention of release for money (profit? ummm no?). Surely it's not a security issue with the images of the electronics so he must just want to show off.

/cut the scenes with the nauts and let her fly

It sounds like that the entire movie is the astronauts, as it begins with Garriot leaving the station.

germ78: GT_Frog: Lord British! I loved his adventure programs. Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia I think there were 7 versions in all. Had an Apple ][ Plus with 48K of memory and spent weeks of late night concentration, high on Bud (beer, not weed), playing that game in my garage. I don't know if this was the beginning of the RPG games, but for me, it was the best.

Exactly. Lots of great memories growing up playing Ultimas 3-Serpent Isle. 8 was meh, and I never had a chance to play 9 because my computer couldn't handle it at the time.

It's been long enough that I hope Garriot does a reboot of some sort on the franchise (even though EA now holds the rights).

It sounds like EA has handed it over to Bioware to do something with the series, so far all that's official is a site they've put up about the originals (with links to download some of them free)... I think it's "ultimaforever.com."

There's also a parody out there somewhere in which at one point you return to Planet X (from Ultima II) and run into Garriott visiting as a tourist, who promptly expresses surprise at you being there since he thought he removed the whole space travel thing.

I wrote the music to one of his Ultima games, so am getting a kick out of your replies.

Seriously, this rocks to no end. Takes after his dad in space there!

Baron Harkonnen: You know. The ruler of Akalabeth, Sosaria and Britannia.

Well I didn't vote for him.

You don't vote for kings!

Well, how'd he become king, then?

Victor Wanyama kindly allowed him to become king... for now.

Seriously? I found it(new window) after 3 seconds of googling.

Bank guards recdu recsu.

B0n3dewD?

whatshisname: Lord British?

Rich kid. Son of an astronaut. Likes to flaunt it in everyone's faces every chance he gets.

orclover: You can not kill lord brittish in Ultima 7. I can say this with confidence. A freind and I spent an entire weekend trying. Even tried about a hundred gunpowder cask around his throne, and he shrugged it off. But we kept trying.

Killed just about everybody else ont he planet though.

Yes you can. Every day at noon he walks through the castle gate under a gold plaque. You click the plaque and it falls on him, killing him.

In Ultima 9, you bake a loaf of poison bread and leave it on a plate and he wanders by and eats it and dies.

BattleFrenchie28: He is already here.

/honk
//HONK

AAAAAUUUUUUUGH, JEGUS!

I... uh... no. I did wear a lot of bone armor under a black robe and run around e-bolting random passersby, though.

B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd (new window)

ahh, the good ol' days