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Pirates! was superb. I've never visited the Caribbean yet, but I'll be hearing the sound effects from this game when I do.

If only those war wounds didn't stop you playing... and the crew wanting to mutiny or divide the plunder.

It truly was the golden era of games, for me, as a kid. Remember thinking how the incremental improvements in hardware would make games more life like, and when that day would come. Wonder if kids now think the same?

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Same here. My brothers and me could name all the Caribbean islands, we tried to sail to Europe from Bermuda and I remember my Dad sinking a half our galleons in the span of minutes we let him play on our Commodore64.

Thanks for the memories :)

i played it as a kid with several lack of understanding in general but also of the english language.

i: "papa, was heisst 'cutthroat'" (dad, what does 'cutthroat' mean?) dad: "das heisst halsabschneider" (it's cutthroat) i: "und 'swashbuckler'" (and swashbuckler?) dad: "???"

first time in my life that my father wasn't able to answer a question.

I came here to mention Pirates! too. Pirates! !!!

I loved that game as a kid. Is there a spiritual sequel?

There's a Pirates! Gold version I bought a few years back. Same game, graphics/sounds revamped

There is also Sid Meier’s Pirates! which is a newer redesign from 2004.

https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_pirates

King of Seas is kind of like Pirates with some overarching story on top of it.

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