Mods sound great :D

Yeah, I'm another Pirates! addict! Have not played it for a few months, but it is there waiting on my desktop for any moment of weakness! :arrgh!:

Welcome to SubSim David :sunny:

I should've bought the bloody thing, shouldn't I? :nope::haha:

For me with the Atari version its a real mix. I really like it and utterly despise it at the same time. But I grew up on the original 1987 pc-booter version, which had so much more depth; depth the Atari version ditched for stupid crap like the dancing, or the horrid swordfighting. So while I play this one occasionally, I much prefer to play the original, or the gold version which also had a bit of the depth taken out.

Also the feel for the games is so different too. The original MicroProse games felt far more real and gritty, where as the remake is just cartoony and rather corny and stupid.

I really wish they would do a proper remake of the original, with all the realistic touches it had (or add even more).

Oh and if you want to try out the original MicroProse games, GoG has both in a pack
http://www.gog.com/game/pirates_gold_plus

For those that really hate some of the crap like the dancing and just want to skip it (let the computer do it) or change other aspects of the game, i strongly recommend PHTrainer.
http://www.gamefront.com/files/11397...HTrainer_v3_20

Anyhow moving this to the proper Pirates forum.

Nice :yep:

Sid Meier as the Mysterious Traveler
 

Here's the man :)

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...psxauf4g7f.jpg

Indeed. I should try that :D

The original 1987 Microprose Sid Meier's i sometimes still do, i even have the original manual. Game freezes or locks up too much thru DOSBOX. I must admit that the 2004 remake was quite entertaining for sometime but boy i was deceived by my high expectations. :Kaleun_Crying:

I actually managed to complete the entire game. It was really fun but, as you said, rather buggy. Still fun though :yeah:

Wow, those who look around shall find and here is a thread about SM's Pirates! It's been decades since I had it for my C64, spent quite some time trying to get a grasp on the gameplay. Enjoyed it but never figured it out back then to keep playing it. Now that is up for revision as Pirates Gold for DOS turned out to be a disaster, utterly broken and unplayable so I dug out a copy I have of the original SMP for PC to revisit a game I have been wanting to figure out for some time now.

Oh, boy. If you like pirates, even in general, you'll love this game.
Here are a few tips to get you started.
- In the cities, towns and settlements you'll visit, there are upgrades to your ship you can make. Don't try to memorize where the different upgrades are; each time you start a game the upgrades switch cities.
- Just because a ship is large, doesn't mean it's a good warship. For example, the Royal Sloops is regarded as the best ship in the game because of it's small size, maneuverability, and firepower (20+ cannon)
- Yes, you should buy the treasure maps the traveler in the corner offers you

Hope I helped out a bit. Enjoy the game :salute:

Are we talking about the original or the remake? :hmmm:

I played the original quite a lot and have looked into it now but upgrades for ships? That is a new one. Sure that isn't in the remake?

It's in the remake. I though that's what we were talking about :hmmm:

EDIT: My bad, just re-read your post. Didn't see that you were talking about the original SMP. My mistake.

I remember wasting many many hours trying to find the treasure despite being too cheap to buy another section of the map. :03:

Haven't played it in ages since it won't run on my computer, but I had a blast with it back in the day. Used to go all posh and roll around in Treasure Galleons with a character mod that gave my captain a moustache worthy of Poirot :P

This is a really fun game. Easy to find yourself immersed in the whole pirate theme for a few hours.

I just picked up a perfect preowned disc of Pirates! (with manual) by 2K Games "Feral Legends" for Mac.

Copyright on the edge is 2005-2008, so I'm not sure how this one ranks. But it's going to get played this time :up: