Sid Meier Developing Pirates! Remake

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a press release at Yahoo stating that Sid Meier's company Firaxis has signed a long-term publishing deal with Atari. This includes the announcement of Sid Meier's Pirates!, a remake of the classic Microprose strategy title, for 2004 release, and another Civilization III add-on pack, Civilization Conquests, for Xmas 2003. Since Atari, formerly Infogrames, purchased Microprose a couple of years back, they've transferred the rights to Silent Service, Colonization, and many more classic Meier titles to Firaxis, and these are also mentioned for possible remakes down the road.

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Re:Praise Be To One Eye'd Willy!

[SLot]

Let's see. I've enjoyed Cutthroats

Going back to ancient games, my favorite sea faring game was Dreadnaughts (can't find a link for it.)

Mapless . . .

[Dausha]

I bought the original game on the manual alone. My first day with the game was a Friday, so I started at 3p and stopped the first round of playing the next morning around 6a. So, you can bet that I'll buy the new version.

I lost my map in the first week, but by then I developed to the point where I didn't need the map. However, my brother did, so I spent a good deal of time plotting every-stinking-square on the game on graph paper!