Richard Allen Garriott (born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut. 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.

Richard Garriott de Cayeux currently serves as the President of the Explorers Club. He is a founding father of the videogame industry and the commercial spaceflight industry, a flown astronaut, and the first explorer to have explored pole to pole, orbited the Earth, and reached the deepest point in the Ocean.

Richard Garriott (born July 4, 1961, Cambridge, England) is a British-born American computer-game developer who became the sixth space tourist and the first second-generation American to go into space.

After diving to Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep, Richard became in early 2021 the first explorer to have explored pole to pole, orbited the Earth, and reached the deepest point in the Ocean. Watch a video of the expedition.

Richard “Lord British” Garriott de Cayeux began his quests in the virtual world armed with only paper tape strips and a teletype. He soon leveled up to an Apple ][ and published his first game Akalabeth – the precursor to the critically acclaimed Ultima series.

2021年7月24日 · Richard Garriott has ventured to both poles, the ocean's deepest point and even to space. Now he's aiming for a science-based age of discovery.

Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.

2020年2月3日 · Blasting into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket, Richard Garriott says it was "the most intense eight and a half minutes" of his life. Launched from the Baikonur space centre in...

Richard Garriott, an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, was born on July 4, 1961. As a child, he developed a passion for technology and gaming. While still in high school, Garriott programmed dozens of games on the Apple II inspired by Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

Richard “Lord British” Garriott is one of the most famous game designers of all time. Founder of the renowned software company ORIGIN Systems, Inc. and creator of the Ultima series of role-playing games, he has greatly contributed to the development of the gaming business.