Pirates! Gold Plus

Sid Meier's Pirates! is a definitely one of the very old-school games. Which is to say, if you actually want to prosper in the game, it'll be nerve-splittingly hard. You just can't sell old games to newbies these days - fortunately, the game industry has learnt to actually provide us games with a sensible difficulty curve and you can no longer sell a ridiculously short game under the guise of unforgiving difficulty. But this time, the difficulty doesn't mask a game you can just stroll through in ten minutes with infinite health. And this time, the difficulty level won't mean that sunday gamers won't be getting anything out of the game. I think that has always been the brilliant part about Sid Meier's designs - he makes games that have actual depth to them, and games that have something for everybody. (For comparison, you can be the suckiest strategist ever in Civilization series, and still have tons of fun.) So here we have a game that doesn't really need a lot of explaining. A jolly old pirate romp - nay, the mother of all pirate romps on personal computers! You start with a small ship and barely anything at all. Be a good guy, hunt pirates, or become a privateer. Be a bad guy and plunder frigging everything. Capture ships, assault towns, do epic cannon battles and fence your way to victory. You can either care about what's going on, or not. It doesn't matter, because a pirate is free, you are a pirate.</meme> I didn't actually try out the original DOS version included in this bundle, because the first version I played was the C64 one, and I doubt the glory is the same. But the Pirates Gold remake is absolutely incredible - great graphics style, good music, and an appropriate amount of "arrrrr!" sound effects make the game feel sufficiently modern in every way. So support *true* software piracy today and get this incredible game! Final breakdown of the stars: 4 stars for the concept, -1 star for a *slight* unexplainable feeling of they-really-ought-to-have-modernised-this-further, +2 stars because in the end of the day, it's *just that much fun*.

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.