Pirates! Gold Plus

I remember being a little kid and spending hours a day playing this on the Apple IIc. I've always had love for this game and I even still, to this day, have a giant xerox copy of the original map hoisted on the wall over my monitor. I suppose this means my free time is now swept away once more. If you played the 2K Games remake, you got a small taste of what Pirates! actually is. Nothing can compare to the 1987 title and is one of the greatest games of all time, imo.

Play this on my Commandor C 128 and later on PC. An Epic game

Pirates! and Pirates! Gold were two of my most favorite games growing up. I still have both games on 3.5" floppies on the shelf, even though I don't have a computer that can run them anymore. Highly suggest these games along with the newer Sid Meier's Pirates!. FYI: the soundtrack that is included with this package is actually music from the new Sid Meier's Pirates! and not either game in this package.

Way back when Microsoft actually had a Software House (Microprose) I got this beauty for my Atari ST. This is the Classic DOS original, and perfectly preserved... Point and click, move your mouse about... Controls could not be more simple but making the top spot is going to be. If you think this game looks a little more familiar or just want better Graphics, You could just go out and Buy "Sid Meier's 'PIRATES!' an why not... He worked on this original... And the Maps and bits you get in the Goodies with the GOG release can help you with finding the treasure (Seriously! The maps are 100% accurate!) While the newer version does have far more action throughout, you cannot fault this classic.

Or the 2004 version. They are both better than this version (Pirates! Gold), which was sort of an attempt to revive the original with a few extra features, but overall was not as much fun. It has some glitches/bugs that aren't fatal but are definitely annoying, and it has no new features over the 1988 version that the 2004 remake didn't do MUCH better. Even the original, with its simplicity, is a far greater classic than this one. Still, it's playable, and rather pretty for its age.