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Richard Garriott Biography
Richard Garriott is one of the most popular and richest Video Game Developer who was born on July 4, 1961 in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born July 4, 1961) is an English-American video-game developer and entrepreneur. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and programmer, and is now involved in a number of aspects of computer-game development. On October 12, 2008, Richard flew aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 mission to the International Space Station as a private astronaut, returning 12 days later aboard Soyuz TMA-12. He became the second astronaut, and first from the U.S., to have a parent who was also a space traveler. During his ISS flight, he created the first narrative film to be made in space, Apogee of Fear.
Garriott also worked with the Windows on Earth project, which provides an interactive, virtual view of Earth as seen from the ISS. Garriott used Windows on Earth software to assist in the selection of locations on Earth to photograph, and the public were able to use the same online tool to track the ISS and see the view Richard was experiencing out an ISS window. Richard’s photographs, along with images taken by his astronaut father Owen Garriott in 1973, will be available to the public through Windows on Earth, adding a personal element to studies of Earth and how Earth has changed over time.
| Name | Richard Garriott |
| First Name | Richard |
| Last Name | Kennelly |
| Occupation | Video Game Developer |
| Birthday | July 4 |
| Birth Year | 1961 |
| Place of Birth | Cambridge |
| Home Town | England |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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What Garriott later described as “my first real exposure to computers” occurred in 1975, during his freshman year of high school at Clear Creek High School. As he wanted more experience beyond the single one-semester BASIC class the school offered, and as a fan of The Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons, Garriott convinced the school to let him create a self-directed course in programming, in which he created fantasy computer games on the school’s teletype machine. Garriott later estimated that he wrote 28 computer fantasy games during high school.
Richard Garriott Net Worth
Richard Garriott is one of the richest Video Game Developer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Garriott's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Richard Allen Garriott was born in Cambridge, England on July 4, 1961, to Helen Mary Garriott (née Walker) and Owen Garriott, one of NASA’s first scientist-astronauts (selected in NASA Astronaut Group 4), who flew on Skylab 3 and Space Shuttle mission STS-9. Richard was raised in Nassau Bay, Texas from the age of about two months. Since his childhood, he has dreamed of becoming a NASA astronaut like his father. But eyesight problems revealed at the age of 13 blocked his ambition, and he engaged with computer game development.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Video Game Developer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In the early 1980s, Garriott continued to develop the Ultima series of computer games, eventually leaving university to author them on a full-time basis. Originally programmed for the Apple II, the Ultima series later became available on several platforms. Ultima II was published by Sierra On-Line, as they were the only company that would agree to publish it in a box together with a printed cloth map. By the time he developed Ultima III, Garriott, together with his brother Robert, their father Owen and Chuck Bueche established their own video game publisher, Origin Systems, to handle publishing and distribution, in part due to controversy with Sierra over royalties for the PC port of Ultima II.
Steve Jackson Games (SJG) maintained a friendly relationship with Garriott and, when he visited the SJG office one day, Garriott was so impressed by the artwork of Denis Loubet that he commissioned him to paint the cover of Ultima I (1980). Loubet subsequently painted many other covers for Garriott’s games.
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Garriott began writing computer games in 1974. His first games were created on and for teletype terminals. The code was stored on paper tape spools and the game was displayed as an ongoing print-out on the spools of printer paper produced by teletype machines. In summer 1979, Garriott worked at a ComputerLand store where he had his first encounter with Apple computers. Inspired by their video monitors with color graphics, he began to add perspective view to his own games. After he created Akalabeth for fun, the owner of the store convinced Garriott it might sell. Garriott spent US$200 printing copies of a manual and cover sheet that his mother had drawn, then he put copies of the game in Ziploc bags to sell at the store. Although Garriott sold fewer than a dozen copies of Akalabeth at the store, one copy made it to California Pacific, who signed a deal with him. The game sold over 30,000 copies, and Garriott received $5 for each copy sold. Akalabeth is considered the first published Computer Role Playing Game. In the fall, Garriott entered the University of Texas at Austin, joined the school’s fencing team and later joined the Society for Creative Anachronism. He created Ultima I while at the university. It was published by California Pacific Computers and sold in Ziploc plastic bags, as was common in those days.
In 1986, Garriott helped start the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. His high school science teacher was June Scobee-Rogers, wife of Challenger Shuttle Commander Dick Scobee, who piloted the STS-51-L mission. STS-51-L was intended to carry the first teacher in space flight, before it and its crew were tragically lost on lift off. Scobee drew on Garriott’s early leadership in gaming, to help design what has become approximately 50 global interactive networked facilities, where students study about and perform simulated space missions.
Who is Richard Garriott Dating?
According to our records, Richard Garriott married to Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux . As of December 1, 2023, Richard Garriott’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Richard Garriott. You may help us to build the dating records for Richard Garriott!In 1983 Softline reported that “Garriott wants to go into space but doesn’t see it happening in the predictable future … He has frequently joked with his father about stowing away on a spaceship, and recently his speculations have been sounding uncomfortably realistic”. The income from the success of Garriott’s video game career allowed him to pursue his interest in spaceflight, and the sale of Origin Systems allowed him to invest in Space Adventures and purchase the ticket to become the first private citizen to fly into space. However, Garriott suffered financial setbacks in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst, and he was forced to sell his seat to Dennis Tito.
Facts & Trivia
Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Video Game Developer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Richard Garriott celebrates birthday on July 4 of every year.
Garriott built a haunted house/museum at his residence called Britannia Manor in Austin, Texas. Garriott’s haunted house was stated to cost $50,000 each year and took two months to construct. In 1991 the haunted house event was cancelled, as Garriott was busy working on Ultima VII.
Who is Richard Garriott?
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born July 4, 1961) is an American video game developer, entrepreneur and astronaut. Although both his parents were American, he maintains dual British and American citizenship by birth.
Will there ever be another Ultima?
Ultima remasters were turned down by EA, says series creator Richard Garriott. Richard Garriott, the creator of the Ultima RPG series, says he’s made attempts to revive the games with remasters but was blocked from doing so by publisher EA.
How did Richard Garriott get to space?
He landed in Kazakhstan aboard Soyuz TM-12 on Oct. 23, 2008. His trip was made possible by Space Adventures, Ltd. —an American company that made space travel available to high-paying clients—in which Garriott was an investor.
How old is Richard Garriott?
60 years (July 4, 1961)
What happens to video game players when they sleep?
The data revealed that sleep-onset latency was greater and self-reported sleepiness was lower after video game playing than after watching a movie (learn more about sleep-onset latency and other sleep study terms here).
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