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This room would spark internal controversy when a religious fundamentalist playtester working at Origin Systems' New Hampshire division discovered the room and became outraged, believing the company was promoting child abuse. Instead of contacting Richard Garriott, he wrote a letter to Richard's brother Robert outlining his grievances with it and his resignation from the company, which led to Robert and his parents arguing with Richard over the phone to remove the room from the game. He defended the room by pointing out that players were not guaranteed to see it out of the 256 individual rooms in the game, that they did not have to free the children in the first place, and that they could spare them and did not have to kill them to either escape the room or win the game. He argued that his family and the playtester were trying to censor what he could do artistically while misunderstanding that the room was not meant to be explicitly offensive, and in the end, the room remained in the final game.
Shay Adams - "The Official Book of Ultima" First and Second Editions (1990, 1992). ISBN 0-87455-228-1, ISBN 0-87455-264-8 (Pages 64-66 in both books):
https://archive.org/details/Ultima_Guide_OfficialBookOfUltima/
https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialBookOfUltima/
Quote blog post:
https://skullsinthestars.com/2009/12/04/richard-garriott-on-ultima-v/
Image source:
https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Children#Controversial_Trademark
https://archive.org/details/Ultima_Guide_OfficialBookOfUltima/
https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialBookOfUltima/
Quote blog post:
https://skullsinthestars.com/2009/12/04/richard-garriott-on-ultima-v/
Image source:
https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Children#Controversial_Trademark
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Pressing Ctrl+Shift+6 on the Acknowledgements screen will make the name "Toshi Morita" fade away and eventually disappear.
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