Ultima Online cover
PC (Microsoft Windows)

Ultima Online

24 Sep 1997
Origin Systems
Electronic Arts
Role-playing (RPG)
Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

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.