Pirates! Gold Plus

I got this game on 6 floppy disks when I must of been about 9, my mother thought it would be a good educational game. I played it constantly for years afterwards. The manual was full of interesting information about ships and the history of the time (I spent evenings just reading it over and over and I still have the manual to this day). You are a pirate / privateer, you are on the Spanish main, now have fun! It's a classic you can join with countries, plunder cities, find treasure, literately years of fun! If you loved port royal 1/2 or similar you are doing your self a disservice if you do not buy this game!

Playing on a 64 bit windows machine and finding a lot of bugs in the gold version, some quite serious like entering battle and finding my cannons have gone. Shame as i was a huge fan of the original versions and spent a long time playing it on both the Amiga and megadrive.

Both Pirates and Pirates Gold are constantly crashing on my system here. No such thing with other old DOS games, such as Civ 1. Pretty much makes them unreliable at best and unplayable at worst.

I'm tempted to leave the review there since it pretty much says it all. This pack contains some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming, finding a legendary treasure with only one map piece, rescuing kidnapped relatives from evil spaniards, capturing the treasure fleet but being the only person in my crew to survive and racing to the nearest port before the game checked my crew levels, realised I didn't have enough for one ship much less 5 & sank all my boats on me... Truly fantastic stuff.