Pirates Gold - Sega Genesis - Part 1

Pirates! Gold is a 1993 computer game, a remake to Sid Meier's 1987 release, Sid Meier's Pirates!

MicroProse developed this 256-color version for MS-DOS, Macintosh, Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga CD32 and Windows 3.x featuring a MIDI score and mouse support (in MS-DOS and Windows versions).

Pirates! Gold features Super VGA graphics including hand-painted screens, and a more-detailed playing environment than the original. The update also includes 3-D modeled ship and flag animations, and graphic depictions of items that were menu choices in the original game.

The player can play as a pirate, privateer, or a pirate hunter. It features sword fighting, ocean-faring battles, and land battles as its three main arenas of action, connected by role-playing which allows the player to court the favor of local politicos, romance women, and recruit pirates in the local pub. Players have the opportunity to go on quests, but must also strategically plan raiding excursions and trading routes.

The PC versions contained a copy protection scheme requiring the player to identify the flag of a pirate ship sighted on the horizon (similar to the 1987 Atari port). Sea and sea-to-land combat were played in real-time while land battles were done in turn-based strategy. Sun sighting was not present in this version, and there were no special items. The game did, however, include several new features.

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