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.

Re:Praise Be To One Eye'd Willy!

[SLot]

Let's see. I've enjoyed Cutthroats [eidosinteractive.com]

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!

Pirates!

[Tarindel]

was one of my favorite games of all time. I had the apple II version and the apple IIgs version (which was buggy). I have great memories of playing the dutch circa 1620 and plunding the cities along the southern coast of the mediterranean.

Another thing I would be really curious to see is a Sid Meier done version of XCom. There's an interesting article [gamespy.com] from last August where this deal was being discussed. Amongst other things, interesting relevant paragraphs:

GameSpy: Would that include your old stuff? Like Pirates, F-15 Strike Eagle, Gunship...
Sid Meier: ... Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, Covert Ops. And we're looking at the other games as well.
GameSpy: Like Master of Magic and X-Com?
Sid Meier: Yes.
GameSpy: You realize Usenet is going to go nuts over that answer.
Sid Meier: We're not going to announce our next game until October or so.
GameSpy: You've been asking fans, yesterday I heard people saying Pirates more often than anything else.
Sid Meier: We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

I can think of at least one or two people who would love to see a MOM sequel... :)