Sid Meier's Pirates! Gets Board Game, Previews 22
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.
Pirates 2... (Score:4, Informative)
Can't say I've tried it, but I'd imagine it'll work to some degree under DOSbox [sf.net] - Debian, Windows, OS X, RedHat, SuSE, FreeBSD, Be and MorphOS versions are available. The new version can run Windows 3.1!
Re:Pirates 2... (Score:4, Informative)
Home site:
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/7473/p
without the space, obviously
Re:Pirates 2... (Score:1)
Take into account that this announcment was made on April 1st...
All just re-makes of Settlers of Catan. (Score:3, Interesting)
Would rather play Settlers or Seafarers of Catan.
Boardgames with railroad theme (Score:2)
Most games deal with building an efficient railroad network, so the typical RRT train management and station building is not always included.
But check them out anyway, at least you can play those with your kids (yeah, I know, you don't have kids and I'm an insensitive clod...) because the rules are simpler.
Re:Hardly the first (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hardly the first (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:Hardly the first (Score:2)
It's things like this that give me faint hope that someday we'll see Firefly, the tv series based on the movie based on the tv series.
Combos (Score:1, Interesting)
Its not a new idea either. I have still got some old stuff that runs on a PET (Dneiper River Line - I think they called it)
Good nostalgic stuff - can we have some more please.
Re:Combos (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Combos (Score:1)
Re:Combos (Score:3, Informative)
It really speeds gameplay up immensely - since the computer can figure out things that normally we would need to consult tables to determine...
Jack Valenti's Pirates! (Score:1, Funny)
For educational purposes only, of course.
Boardgames? they still sell? (Score:1)
Re:Boardgames? they still sell? (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:Boardgames? they still sell? (Score:1)
Railroad game: another game going full circle! (Score:2)
Now they are considering putting out a railroad game, based off Railroad Tycoon, which was inspired by the original 18xx boardgame series?!?!
Well - guess I have to wish them the best of luck - their are a lot of good new railroad games on the market right now (Union Pacific, Ticket to Ride) - so there game is go
Updating old PC games (Score:3, Interesting)
Battlezone: Truely great game from Activision.
Jane's: I liked their Fighter Anthology and the WWII flight sim was slick too (period music was seriously cool.)
Panzer Commander: Really enjoyed the first person view standing up in the turret checking out the terrain with field glasses. This one also had a great editor which was most useful in making really hard-to-beat scenarios, possibly the best part of the game in some ways.
Dungeon Master: Okay, this one really dates me, but on the Atari ST this one creeped me out more than a few times and was a challenge. Loved the first person view too.
Anyone else think there's money to be made by brushing up old favorites/best sellers and putting them back on the shelves?
Re:Updating old PC games (Score:2)
Personally I nonetheless think that brushed up classics could sell. It just has to be done right, not 'simply' transferring the game to curre
No subject. (Score:3, Interesting)
Other games i like: "Soul reaver [eidosinteractive.com]", "Black & White [game-revolution.com]", "Trick Style [acclaim.com]", Tibia [tibia.com], Nomad Soul [mobygames.com], and of course all the Lucas Art [lucasarts.com] Series [scummvm.org]..
High Seas (Score:1)
If you can find it, there is a boardgame called High Seas [spotlightongames.com] that is a multiplayer game that captures the feel of Pirates! very well.