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It has already been twenty-five years since we could go to Sosaria together. It was pretty new to play with other people in a graphical game. Ultima Online wasn’t the first online MMORPG (although now it’s assumed the term came with this game). But I do believe it was the best one. Why do I think so? I will get to it.


Ultimate Online was a weird thing for me. I never played it, or EverQuest. I never had a good rig. Back then I had this dilapidated compaq presario with windows 93 that I would play shareware cdrom games on- we lived in a swamp in rural Michigan. Internet was only a thing if you were lucky. I would get pc gamer from the local grocery store and I would fantasize about playing these games on the internet. Print was my only portal to the world of the internet. Eventually I made friends with people who had it though.

I don’t even like video games anymore but back then it seemed like a whole new world. Now it seems like the butt end of a joke. However, I am no longer a teenager.




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