Pirates! Gold Plus

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 have a heap of nostalgia for this title, and when it first released I sunk hours into it. Unfortunately, I find myself unable to enjoy the title now due to some apparent control issues (DOSBox related?) Ship combat is incredibly broken to the point of almost unresponsiveness, and that ruins a significant portion of what made this game so great. Everything else seems to function as it should, so I'm very frustrated that such a fundamental element is so broken.

I loved this game back in the old days and thought it would be fun to play again. Unfortunately it does not run well on my computer, it freezes and is hard to control.

This version of the game is simply awful. Its laggy, the controls don't work properly, I can't save it, I don't get any options to when in port, and every time I enter the bank to pay my crew, the game ends. Don't waste your time or money!