[Pir] The Best Pirates! Version?

[MajKira]

I would praise the Sega version in 90s more than the Primary rock c64 of 80s.
You had improved game with no loading time anymore on the console was everything much much better.
The Millenium PC Version had due to time even better graphic and hot dancing. But you miss Silvertrain and treasurefleet to be cashed in towns and had to find buggy treasure maps wothout the maps by stumbling upon it when you see it by wandering around in the right area.
But it also had the great Sol Ship, other pirates and hot dancing, Montalban

 

[Thormodr]

I loved both the C64 version and Pirates Gold.

I voted for Pirates Gold though.

Wonderful games they were. Arrr!

 

[Butterball]

I loved both the C64 version and Pirates Gold.

I voted for Pirates Gold though.

Wonderful games they were. Arrr!

I agree with you on Gold. Arrr!

 

[Gazmeister]

You missed out the NES version.
The NES version was the first Pirates! game I played.

 

[Oerdin]

C64 wins every time.

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

I've only played the 2004 PC version. I enjoyed it much, can't really compare to others though. I think I read that the original version of the game had bermuda in it, I remember wishing that the 2004 game also had bermuda. Oh well though.

 

[Moses7]

For me the last one

 

[Greizer85]

So long as my Amiga worked, I kept playing the Amiga version. It tried the C64 version with an emulator, and the Gold version on the PC... Just couldn't get used to the awful graphics, and the music seemed different from the Amiga version's classial 'piratey' sounds.

I remember a perfect day in the haze of my early youth, when I first woke up to watch a movie about the pirate Jean Lafitte on the TV... After I'd finished, I immediately started up a new game on the Amiga and named my character after the famous pirate... Eleven hours later I retired commander Lafitte with God knows how many points and the second highest rank possible - the highest I ever achieved, and with a personal fortune in land and gold that was too much to count, even for his numerous slaves and servants. Not to mention a beautiful bride of course, obtained without any idiotic dance numbers, tyvm. During the whole experience my family was conspicuously absent; I don't remember where they were at the time, but such occasions (everyone away) were extremely rare at the time. It seemed as if the very stars had aligned to make me a pirate in my mind and heart for that single, perfect day, without interference. A real pirate treasure, more precious than any chest of gold in the physical world (not to say I would've refused if actually presented with said chest ).

Now don't get me wrong - I like the new version too, and played it for a long time; but it's too cartoony for me to get really immersed in it. With the old Pirates! I felt I was a captain in the Caribbean searching for plunder and adventure; with the new one, I feel like I'm a guy who's playing a game about the same. Ofc I'm older, nostalgic, etc; but at the same time this is a trend with games in general. Graphics like those in the old Pirates! and Civ II are timeless in their painterly look, while modern 3D graphics always seem to me cold and manufactured somehow, reminding you of the game's gaminess. The former work to *evoke* something in the imagination, while the latter aim to *present* it, always falling short (though less and less as graphics approach photorealism).

Also, someone ought to be keelhauled for those awful dancing episodes in the new version! If pirates did indeed dance I'm sure it was strictly on the graves of their enemies.