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devoid of influence but that of Spain, while 1680 (the latest choice) provides a mature
Caribbean with many non-Spanish colonies and an overall higher degree of activity in the region. The other choices include 1600, 1620, 1640, and 1660, with the progressive effect of reducing Spanish dominance in favor of the other nations, while increasing seafaring traffic. Ship designs are also era-dependent, with some types of ships appearing more frequently in certain eras and less in others, and certain ship types being used near-exclusively by certain nations.
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generally benefits from periods of war between two or more countries, because any aggression towards a country's ships or cities, which occurs often if not specifically avoided, will gain recognition with its enemies, prompting them to bestow the player with land, titles, and other benefits. During peacetime, the player can only benefit from the capture of pirates on the high seas, which is seen as favorable by all nations, but is a rare occurrence.
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With five successful years behind him, Microprose considered star designer Sid Meier a selling point and chose to put his name on the box of his next game, despite a shift away from combat simulators he had become known for. According to
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sections, tactical ability during the land and sea combat phases, and strategic thinking, for everything from choosing a wife to deciding when to divide up the plunder. Moreover, each game is likely to take a different course, as most events in the game are random, including the economic and
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many of the most important factors which affect player decisions are randomized at the beginning of the game and continue to shift during gameplay. This not only creates a new experience each time the game is played, but also requires the player to remain flexible, and be ready to exploit
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with multiple countries and may turn to piracy at any time. Gameplay is open-ended; the player may choose to attack enemy ships or towns, hunt pirates, seek buried treasure, rescue long-lost family members, or even avoid violence altogether and seek to increase their wealth through
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in 1994 with enhanced CD audio tracks. Sun sighting was not present in this version, and there were no special items. The game added several new features, such as extra missions assigned to the player by governors. The MS-DOS version includes VGA graphics, a
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sported both disk and manual copy protections. Users were asked the time at which various treasure ships were arriving at the port. If the time was wrong, the game would continue, but at a much higher difficulty level that would frustrate most people.
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possibilities when they occur. Changes happen whenever time passes and they are unrelated to player actions. In fact, in this game in the series, random events do not have any graphical representation, and the player can do nothing to prevent them.
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was actually inspired by a technological trick" when "one of our programmers came up with a cool trick where we could create images, pieces of art, by packing them into a font. And that allowed us to very quickly bring in new pictures".
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five stars out of five in a 1990 survey of historical strategy and war games, and four stars in a 1993 survey of pre 20th-century strategy games, calling it "a genre breakthrough, this is a fascinating simulation of the Age of Piracy".
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was designed more around your fantasy of pirates than the actual reality. That allowed you to bring in all the stuff from the movies, whatever you had read, whatever was in your imagination".
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readers' "All-Time
Favorites". In 1996, the magazine ranked it as the 18th best video game of all time, noting that the Amiga version was by far the best by then. In 2004, readers of
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was a groundbreaking game in its era. Its puzzles appealed more to female gamers than previous products from MicroProse, a company known for military simulations like
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the 84th top retro game, with the staff noting that "people still play the original version, even though Sid Meier himself produced later versions". In 2005,
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set themselves a variety of ambitious goals and succeeded on every count". The magazine concluded that the game "is a real treasure".
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was not intended to provide an authentic, true-to-life recreation of historical piracy: "
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ranked it as the fifth most addictive classic game "that stole our childhood". In 2006,
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In the Mac version, graphics like terrain are painted with special glyphs.
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This article is about the 1987 video game. For the 2004 remake, see
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The IBM PC version was originally released in 1987 as a
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won many awards at the time of its release, including
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2014:. Vol. 12, no. 1 #126. pp. 171–172
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1837:10 November
1765:12 February
1590:Amiga Joker
1500:16 November
1435:16 December
1411:Retro Gamer
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588:Ultra Games
568:Amstrad CPC
475:Development
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115:Platform(s)
105:Composer(s)
83:Designer(s)
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1867:3 November
1827:"Gameplay"
1671:"Pirates!"
1616:"Pirates!"
1586:"Pirates!"
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1189:References
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1160:BlackBerry
901:Broadsides
560:Apple IIGS
368:open-world
272:MicroProse
260:video game
137:Apple IIGS
109:Ken Lagace
68:MicroProse
54:MicroProse
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2199:5 October
2186:BMC Group
2080:. Steam.
2054:. Valve.
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610:Reception
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386:, or the
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227:Genre(s)
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142:Atari ST
132:Apple II
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433:frigate
424:fencing
390:in the
326:Bermuda
322:Florida
242:Mode(s)
179:Release
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