Sid Meier's Pirates!
DOS - 1994
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Sid Meier's Pirates! is available for a small price on the following website, and is no longer abandonware.
Sid Meier's Pirates! is available for a small price on the following website, and is no longer abandonware.
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Sid Meier's Pirates! PC 2004 spanish
https://archive.org/details/Sid_meiers_pirates_PC_2004esp
Had a friend who played this a lot on the Nintendo back in the early 90's.
Anyone know where you can get the Apple II version? I'd love to get back into this game but the other versions are heresy! lol.
@BANANAJANE The irony gets deeper - the original 1987 game for Dos was released on a floppy that was not only its own boot-disk and o/s, the disk had 'marked' bad sectors for copy protection; you couldn't 'pirate Pirates!' with the tech we had at the time! :D
Where can I install the Commodore 64 version of this game?
Does nobody see the irony of paying for a pirate videogame
My best day of summer in 92 was when i reached the King's Advisor in the end. Loved this game.
Great game with a mix of gameplay. Remember finding it hard though.
I played this in 1987, so the above release date is incorrect.
why can't we download amiga/atari st/c64 versions?
if the answer is that steam/gog purchased the license of all versions, so does is it mean that amiga/atari st/c64 versions won't be legally downloadable and playable anymore?
because steam/gog just offer the dos version the game...
They seriously expect you to buy this when you can download it free on other sites?
i grew up on this game. i still own the entire complete original boxset with all documents! there is no literal end game other than being able to make it to top retirement ranking -- near impossible. i learned more about history, geography, and mechanics than school ever taught me just by playing this game! I have the dos-ibm version as well as the NES version. about a decade ago someone ported this to modern PC calling it "Pirates2" there were minimal UI enhancements but the game was exactly the same otherwise. 10/10 great game! if you loved this try out Sword of the Samurai by Sid Meiers also.
Sid Meier is my man, would give him my soup and the d. PS am girl DM me ;
this was also available on the atari st .. used to load it from floppy discs, took ages but was worth it. I eventually memorised where all the treasures were only needed the first piece of the map. gotta admit the graphics look awful now...
there is a bug when i divide up the plunder
remaining in retirement is chosen automaticly
can anybody help?
I can't see the DOS version anywhere. Where is it?
Where is Commodore 64 version?
Played it on commodore 64, Amiga 500, Pc and still going strong :)
One of the best games ever, but its Meiers, so i expect nothing less
The genesis port was awesome.
Easily one of the best games in video history. This, along with Star Control II will give you weeks of entertainment for free.
Never too many screenshots! I loved this game... spent every hour sailing the Caribbean. The manual with texts from historian PhD E. Bever was great too. I wish more games nowadays had PhDs as advisors.
I still can hear the funny sound the wind and waters made on my computer when sailing against the currents, which were also simulated with scientific accuracy, including the west-to-east stationary stream. Every bit of this game I loved. If anything, I would have liked my ship to sail a little faster, for I spent hours of my life staring at an almost entirely blue screen, daydreaming with Pirates in the last half millenium. The game also sported various different campaigns set in different times, with abundant literature and a number of possible outcomus depending upon how you lived your life as a Pirate. There is a modern remake which I am playing now... Mr. Bever is gone, but the graphics are way better and keeps one hokked to the computer as during childhood. Don't play it if you have a thesis to write... ;)
One of the greatest games ever made. I still play the NES version, which is a direct port, with slightly enhanced graphics, of this version probably three or four times a year. It never gets old.
The new version from a few years ago is very good too, but I keep coming back to this one.
I love this game so much I actually wrote a guide for it on gamefaqs.com.
You seem to be confused. The above graphics are from the original Pirates from 1987, not 1994. '94 was Pirates Gold with VGA graphics.
The original '87 version was the first PC game I ever bought, and still one of my favorites.
This game is pretty good, but different for the PSP.
Maybe you just have too short an attention span. You should take your ritalin instead of selling it on the playground, you stupid juvie!
Maybe their is a bit too many screenshots :D
I'ts a good thing every game here has a great description. Never seen pirates with these graphics, only the next version they released in the 90's.
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.