Pirates! Gold Plus

No good old game collection is complete without this one. However, I doubt if it is still playable. I remember steering ship with joystick on C64 and DOS sounds were not attractive, never played this on DOS.

I played this game like crazy back when it was new. Got me interested, too - I swallowed a truckload of books on pirates back then. I wonder if it will run on Linux using Wine.

We just cant play it. Make a save in a town than leave town and...you will be hit by black screen issue. Even often saving cant help at all. I should say that it is wasted money...but i paid around 1 dollar for it...and even with this i just wasted around 30 minutes trying to play it. Games like this with bugs that prevents to play should not be sold to customer even for mentioned dollar! I wanted to bring my old memories back but in fact, you better buy the newer version Sid Mayer's Pirates for modern computers with 3d grapgics. It just works!

1.Says it includes the 1987 pirates! and the 1993 pirates!Gold....idk what they mean...doesnt include shit (ive played both...back in the day) 2.the graphics hurt my eyes.The NES version of Pirates! had pretty good graphics in my opinion...and the graphics of Gold where amazing!These??not so much.They make my eyes bleed 3.i started up the f*cking thing...and i bursted out laughing when i got to the starting swordfight...bursted out laughing indeed...both at the graphics and the...."mechanically deep" (sarcasm) swordfight.Best button mashing game ever 10/10 IGN...no srsly the controls in the swordfights are fucking hilarious.You just swing your sword like some drunk asshole.The animations there are pretty shitty too you try to parry....guy swing his sword a bit...you get hit afterwards.In the end you just mash the attack buttons till you win. 4.sailing...ive never seen a game where to steer my ship i have to either left or right click... *claps rlly slowly* doesnt work half the time the game just ignores some(most) clicks.WHY CANT WE JUST USE THE FUCKING ARROW KEYS DAMNIT!? 5.bugs...plenty 6.no save function...yet you can still load a game...PERFECT 7.Security questions that if you answer wrong you lose all your cannons and lots of your crew...for...ummm...reasons...Guess they sabotaged our ship... :| NO 8.Crashes...not so plenty but it does crash 9.Sound effects.Lets just say that the grunts that the enemy captains make when they get hit turn me on.The sound for the cannons and the swords are alright..average at best tbh 10.Overall quality...Less than stellar...more like shit but whatever PIRATES!GOLD PLUS PLUS? RLLY? ID SAY... PIRATES!GOLD MINUS

mouse not working, colours all wrong, midi sounds awful, and I'm not 'beta-testing' a 30 year old game or it's crappy dosbox. Waste of money.