Sid Meier's - Pirates

[TheTrout]

Now most of you will be too young to remember this classic game, it came out in 1987 on the Amiga and PC, so basically it's for us older folk. Have any of us oldies played the original and tried the new version. I'm disgusted TBH

The original was limited in memory size due to the specs of machine in the old days (I played mine for hours on my 2 meg Amiga). This new version is meant to be state of the art in both graphics and gameplay, and yet to me fails badly in both. Okay it's kept the original feel of the game which is good, but it's also kept it fault's. I cannot believe that everyone seems to be raving on about it on the internet. The duelling is as easy as ever, the missions are as easy as ever and the graphics sequences are neither pretty or wide ranging.

TBH all they have done is make it very badly looking 3d with bad effects. The CD32 version (now how many remember that) had a far better soundtrack as well.

Sid Meier hang your head in shame (if you had the slightest thing to do with this game that is)

I heard on the grapevine that Colonization is being redone, I can only pray that they make a better remake than this crap!

[Zeph]

Oooo I never played Pirates tho had an Amiga 500 (1 meg memory :))

Although I had Colonization which took absolutely ages to do the computer turns (lol) If they do remake it, it should be cool. Fingers Crossed.

[TheTrout]

Oooo I never played Pirates tho had an Amiga 500 (1 meg memory :))

Although I had Colonization which took absolutely ages to do the computer turns (lol) If they do remake it, it should be cool. Fingers Crossed.


I had excess money around this time and modded a CD32 (which was basically an Amiga 1200 board). It ended up as powerfull as an Amiga 4000 with around a gig of HD space (remember the amiga hard drives were 20 meg) 20 meg of ram and used the USR Courier( how do you spell that) modem. I used to run one of the top rated BBS boards in the country as well. The old miggys were a good peice of kit.

Edit. I've just found all this hidden in the bathroom central heating cupboard, Ah the old days of power and large phone bills :)

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

never played this game but i did have an amiga 1200
wasnt the CD32 the first games consloe/pc to have a CD drive???
i remember standing in betties near wetting my pants when the shop asst asked me if i wanted a go, cant remember the game but i remember the GFX WOW!!

[TheTrout]

']never played this game but i did have an amiga 1200
wasnt the CD32 the first games consloe/pc to have a CD drive???
i remember standing in betties near wetting my pants when the shop asst asked me if i wanted a go, cant remember the game but i remember the GFX WOW!!


Yes and no Jo3, the first thng to have a built in CD drive was the Commodore (can't even remember how to spell it) CDTV (which I rewired the keyboard for in order to fit my mod). But the CD32 was the first stand alone CD based console. It was hyped at the time as having a future of being a set top box (ie you could do eveything from it, like go on the net etc), unfortuantly commodore was badly run at the time and had ideas far above their station. There was also fierce competition at the time from the phillips box (the 7th Guest game was amazing for it's time). Unfortunatly due to bad management from the Amiga side, all we ever saw was amiga 1200 graphics with a cd Video intro, which wasn't enough to bowl people over.

I still remember going into dixon's though with a friend who had the phillips console and the VCD encoder and buying Topgun on VCD. (and also a Pink Floyd VCD - Pulse, which I still own).

[DoubleDoom]

I played it on the C64 and was a classic.

[Bear]

I had it on the C64 too. I also had a CD drive for my C64! When was the Sega MegaDrive MegaCD out?

[Carrot]

you've put me off getting this for my sons to play - I was hoping for a stirring swashbuckling game and this sounds like a damp squib:(

[TheFella]

I had a CD32!!! It rocked. Played a game called Lybyrinth or something. And also some futuristic one where you rocked all around this city.

[DoubleDoom]

i wouldnt mind an update to Covert Action. That was a cracking game although by todays standards it would need some polish. However, the potential and depth it offered would be great.

[TheTrout]

unfortunatly I never played covert action so I can't comment, but as far as system limitations go, thats probably my main whinge with Pirates. Compared to the specs it was originally written for they have missed a good opurtunity to increase an already best selling game to the front of the modern market.

TheFella - it was called Liberation and yes it was one of the few classic CD32 games :)

Carrot - Sorry for the negativity, but this new version of Pirates would suit young children (up to about 13 year olds). It comes with a pirate encylopedia built in and is relatively faithfull to the hostilities of the era. See above for my gripe (the game was already great, Fireaxis just missed a chance to port it into the modern PC world)

My 4 year old and 7 year old daughters will happily sit and watch me play it for hours

[TheFella]

TheFella - it was called Liberation and yes it was one of the few classic CD32 games :)
That was the puppy!!! Loved that game.

Er, and pirates are good also. :)

[happynoodleboy]

We could only afford a speccy so I grew up playing jet set willy, football manager and the great escape...

[geordiedmw]

Oh my god old games that rocked,

the greatest ever footy game sensible world of soccer, and hows about cannon fodder, also
truley great game frontier elite, the settleers, and i can not remember the game but was either a single player shootem up or split screen dual player where you chose 1 of 4 characters that was quite cool and had everybody drooling at the time.

i remember the fall of commadore as i was a loyal customer c64 amiga 500 600 and 1200 in the end the name comadore uk was bought out by the uk management team if i remember those days well

[Gazaridis]

Sensible soccer will never be surpassed. Its just so much damn fun. I grew up with a speccy too, Bubble bobble and dizzy were my favourites. As for old games I wish were updated, I loved playing Syndicate Wars back in the day on my PC, but by 1998 PCs had gotten too fast so the game was unplayable as you couldnt slow it down. I've still got the CD. Classic game that was.

[BulletMagnet]

I had an Amiga 500 too, loved Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder too.
I used to think all Team 17 games were the best, Alien Breed, Worms, etc. etc.
Also liked the Psycnosis games too (Obliterator, Beast Series)

Loved playing Gunship by Microprose on the C64 (had the DataTape AND Floppy Drive!!!)

[Pate Dogg]

I [heart] Amiga

[scab]

for some reason, i want to play Civilzation right now. :)