Drop every little thing and seize the popcorn: Majuular’s 4.5-hour documentary on Ultima On-line is right here to devour your weekend

I am going to make this fast: No matter you had deliberate for the weekend, you have to carve four-and-a-half hours out for a last-minute swerve into the late ’90s. Six months within the making, YouTube essayist Majuular is again with the (I imagine) penultimate video in his multi-year Ultima collection. “This one was a doozy,” he wrote within the feedback. It is Ultima On-line.

“From its unlikely formation on the behest of Richard Garriott and Starr Lengthy, to its tempering by the hands of Raph Koster and his workforce of Multi-Person Dungeon fans, to its altering id within the face of competitors, to its incalculable affect, that is the story of Ultima On-line,” the outline reads. If you happen to get the Ultima On-line bug after watching the documentary, excellent news: it is nonetheless very a lot playable on each official servers and fan ones. Majuular highlighted the server he performed on, In Mani Ylem, which goals to recapture the late ’90s expertise.

You could find your entire video collection in a playlist right here, and I am unable to suggest watching them extremely sufficient. In late 2025 we revealed a function story about Majuular’s quest to chronicle the making of Richard Garriott’s genre-defining collection, and the way that mission unexpectedly catapulted him to YouTube success with greater than 200,000 followers. It is a good learn—and will not take you fairly so long as watching all of the movies.