Pirates! Gold Plus

I expected so much more out of this game. You cannot customize ships. The fighting is horrible. I have played for about 4 hours, trying to find some good in this game. All I managed to do was get into a few sea battles. Even then, controlling the ship is terrible. Save your money.

This is the same game I remember playing back in the 90s. It is awesome. I've got dozens of hours on the GOG version, racked up before I installed Galaxy. I'm anxious to see if the cloud save really works. Now for the gotchas... the keyboard is almost non-responsive to steer ship during combat. USE YOUR MOUSE BUTTONS TO STEER... left click to steer left, right click to steer right. CANNONS MISSING? You need to make sure you answer the question correctly when asked to identify a pirate flag. Look in the manual or the flags.pdf in the install directory. This was used as old school copy protection back in the day. A lot of MicroProse games used a similar copy protection strategy. If you don't identify the flag correctly you should quit and reload the game.

I could not possibly count the hours spent on these titles ! Pulling all-nighters crossing the Spanish Main, plundering gold from both enemies and friends alike, finding lost relatives, and collecting grand treasuries. You are a pirate/privateer on service of one of the great nations of the time (England, Spain, Portugal or Netherlands) or just in service of your own. Nations wage war and as a privateer you are allowed to attack and plunder enemy ships. Or you can attack everybody, but pissing everybody off is generally not a good idea, since getting fresh crew will become a bit difficult. In the course of your daring exploits you will come across maps of grand treasures, lost relatives and all kind of stuff to make the game the grand entertainment it actually is. :) "Fly our flag, we teach them fear Capture them, the end is near Firing guns, they shall burn Surrender or fight, there is no return Under Jolly Roger !!!" ;)

Pirates is certainly one of the best game of all times. HOWEVER the conversion of this game by GOG is extremely bad (on MAC - I do not know about PC versions). Controls are not responding... extremely slow to respond, which makes the game almost not playable. Furthermore, the game seems to be so demanding in terms of resources (...) that it managed to make my MacBook Pro extremely warm - more demanding than a FPS - this a joke. My advise: do NOT buy the MAC version of the game (again - maybe the PC version is well translated). I am a bit annoyed as I was expecting a perfect conversion for such an old game sold at about 6 USD.

I remember playing the Commodore 64 version of this game back in 87 and I got to tell you. I LOST ALOT OF SLEEP PLAYING IT! I would start playing 6 pm in the evening and at 3 am I would literally had to pry myself from my computer to get what little sleep I could get before I resume playing again the next evening. ( I still had to go to school the next morning, heh.) But by then I would've already have raided more that have of all the ports in the Spanish Main and sank enough ships to have my own alcoholic beverage named after me.