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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:Boardgames? they still sell? by will_die · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Local newspaper(no web) had an article around 4 months ago that boardgames are having a huge regrowth in sales.
    For a while they died but an increasing amount of parents are conserened about the large of time spent on playing video games(grouping it with TV) so that has lead to the increase in boardgames.

  4. Re:Hardly the first by KevinKnSC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We're talking about two different games here. The first, Civilization (later augmented by Advanced Civilization) is the classic from Avalon Hill that you played twenty years ago (and that everyone ought to try, it's a pretty good game).

    The one mentioned in the article is properly titled Sid Meier's Civilization, and includes a lot of the concepts found in the computer game.