Good find OP. This just might be my favorite gaming moment of this month.
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That's so cool.
I played the hell out of this game in the 90's, and then again when they re-released it. How fun is it to actually have to sneak into town and complete a stealth mission when your pirate's got a high level of notoriety?
I never forget Talk like a Pirate Day! It's my daughter's birthday! 😁
May she plunder the shores and claim herself fair wenches across the seven seas!
Happy birthday to her then!
I could have sailed and sailed and sailed. Lived it. Loved it.
Never knew about the Easter egg. Nice find!
Goodness I loved that game. Then it wouldn't run for awhile. Then it worked again. Maybe.
I'd love a new one but I'm not hoping anymore.
Running it wasn't exactly straightforward. My CD-ROM copy was a no-go, but I managed to get the GOG version working in a 32-bit Wine prefix with DXVK. (I'm on linux.) Remaining problems are lack of wide-screen support (so I run it in a full-height window) and pauses between various scenes (which I might be able to solve with an older Wine version). It's playable already, though; I'm glad I put in a little effort.
Other linux users wanting to try it might want to use Lutris, which seems to have install scripts for it, or a console emulator. Or maybe the Steam version works fine through Proton? I haven't tried it.
I am on windows, so I'm not quite sure why my steam version of the game just...stopped working one day. And the work around fixed it. Until it didn't. But now it's better? Maybe? I haven't checked in a few months, maybe it's back to Not Better.
Ahhhh computers.
Same. I remember playing the original on an Amstrad in the 90s and it was already mind blowing. I was so happy they remade it, and even happier that they barely changed anything about it.
That's awesome. Buncha nerds, hehe. I miss when games were made by a handful of friends, sure sometimes it meant they leaned a little too heavily on a mechanic that only played well in their opinion and stuff like that, the upsides were worth it though.
Crunch made sense then when all employees more or less owned the company.
I also like the fact that Sid Meier was never on board with having his name sticked on every product but the publishers pushed him to do so because of people like Peter Molyneux.
To be clear, I think the original Pirates! actually was Sid Meier's work. I'm not sure about this remake.
Yarr, almost slipped me notice that today be 19th o' September!
I loved this game. There was a pretty good iOS port a few years back but sadly it’s no longer supported.
I just lost The Game :(