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Sid Meier's Pirates! Gets Board Game, Previews

Posted by simoniker on from the arr-harrrrrr dept.

Thanks to Firaxis for its press release announcing that Eagle Games are making a board game version of forthcoming PC remake Sid Meier's Pirates!, following Eagle's earlier release of a Sid Meier's Civilization board game, as well a previously mentioned Age Of Mythology tabletop title. The official Eagle Games site hints at "Other [Boardgame] Projects in the Works", including "A Railroad Game" - possibly Railroad Tycoon, another Sid Meier-created videogame classic? Elsewhere, there was GameSpy coverage and a GameSpot preview of the Pirates! videogame itself at E3, with GameSpy noting: "It's an easy game to jump right into: heavy on action and big on pirate", and the Firaxis site also mentions another Meier-related story, the announcement of Civilization for the Nokia N-Gage.

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  1. Pirates 2... by byolinux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can be downloaded here from The-Underdogs. You should only download it if you actually owned it of course.

    Can't say I've tried it, but I'd imagine it'll work to some degree under DOSbox - Debian, Windows, OS X, RedHat, SuSE, FreeBSD, Be and MorphOS versions are available. The new version can run Windows 3.1!

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    1. Re:Pirates 2... by beders · · Score: 3, Informative

      Pirates 2 is a freeware fan-made sequel and as such people are unlikely to own it.

      Home site:

      http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/7473/pi ra t2pg.htm

      without the space, obviously

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  2. Re:Hardly the first by wcbarksdale · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the board game Civilization dates to 1981 and was a source of inspiration for the computer game.

  3. Re:Combos by dtolman · · Score: 2, Informative
    It can be done now with some games - when I play 18xx boardgames, which have a lot of logistics to track, someone brings in their laptop to keep track of stock purchases, available trains, etc.

    It really speeds gameplay up immensely - since the computer can figure out things that normally we would need to consult tables to determine...