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Ultima Online

Ultima Online

Origin Systems·Electronic Arts
September 24, 1997
PC
Role-playing (RPG)

Ultima Online is the product of Richard Garriott's idea for a fantasy game involving several thousand people who can all play in a shared fantasy world. It is responsible for grandfathering the genre of the MMO, and showing the industry that MMO's were the next era of gaming.

Release September 24, 1997
Developer Origin Systems
Publisher Electronic Arts