Ultima Online
Sep 24, 1997 Origin Systems 1 platform
Role-playing video game
Action
Business
Fantasy
Open world
Sandbox
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.