Richard Garriott’s Collection of Letters
Over the course of the development history of the Ultima games, Richard Garriott received many letters from people who had played different entries in the series. Some of these were very complementary, some of them criticized the games as evil, some featured interesting requests, and some were just downright weird. Garriott held on to many of the letters, and in late November/early December of 2015, he began putting up scans of some of them on Twitter.
And here are links to the tweets in which Lord British revealed each letter:
- I have received many interesting letters down through the years… Some have made interesting requests
- I have received many interesting letters down through the years… Some downright angry with me for my evil ways
- I have received many interesting letters down through the years… Some are, well, a bit less, well, coherent
- Moses followed up a bit later with this letter
- I have received many interesting letters down through the years… Some a bit more excited, such as this example
- I have received many interesting letters down through the years… Some just sweet like this example
- I am proud of creating stories about virtue and borrowing ideas from world religions. Others are offended. Too bad.
- Where are you Paul Rogers? My earliest known “Report thy feat!” for completing Akalabeth in 1981.
- First “Fan Mail”, which as always, is really 6 pages of “let me tell you how to make your next game”. Richard Fowell
- Tom, I hope I am not too late… Vertical lines done with the BASIC command HPLOT & http://SCA.org works.
The Ultima Codex is, as always, grateful to Richard Garriott for sharing these glimpses into the many and varied ways in which the Ultima games have touched peoples’ lives. Hopefully, there are more letters to be revealed in the future; if so, they will be added to this gallery as time and opportunity permit.
