The name of Richard Garriott's first graphical role-playing game. The name was inspired by the writings of Tolkien. To avoid copyright infringement, Garriott altered the name Akalabeth slightly. The original Tolkien spelling is Akallabeth. LOA paid homage to Garriot when we selected our name in preparation for entering the world of Ultimate Online, our first online game as a guild.

Akalabeth: World of Doom, released in 1980 for the Apple II, is recognized as one of the first commercial computer role-playing games (though it began as a hobbyist project) and as a precursor of the Ultima series of games that started Richard Garriott's career.