Pirates!

by Nintendo

Product Features

• Play As A High Seas Pirate - For 1 Player
• Six Historically Accurate 17th Century Pirate Raids
• Includes Battery Backup, Plus Historically Accurate Map Of The Spanish Main

Product Details

• ASIN: B000BMYM3S
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,809 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Ahoy, You Swarthy Gold Swiping, Ship Sinking Sea Dog! Modern warfare is no match for the fierce realism of six historically accurate seventeenth century pirate raids along the Spanish Main. Aye, Matey! That's why plundering and pillaging are back in style, as you command the role of a high seas high-jacker. Either an English Buccaneer, Dutch Adventurer, Spanish Renegade or French Explorer, each with a different skill level and strategic impact. As a swashbuckling scoundrel, you'll barter with enemy merchants, trade for hidden treasure maps, negotiate with unscrupulous governors, and forge alliances with monarchs who'd just as soon stab you in the back than float you a loan for new ships. But that's only half the battle! You'll also assault towns, sword fight with garrison commanders, lay siege to forts, and fire your cannons broadside at an armada of naval foes, including Spanish War Galleons, Dutch Frigates, French Merchantmen and English Sloops. Arrrrg, Me Swabby! Don't think it's all fun and destruction. Because if your bloodthirsty crew isn't kept happy boarding and burning enemy vessels, or if your navigation skills leave them shipwrecked on a jagged Carribean reef, they won't think twice about using you for shark bait. Fortunately if events do take a nasty turn, you can save the statistical loot you've captured and return with a vengeance on another day. So keep your eye (the one that doesn't have a patch over it!) on your ultimate objectives - power, fame, prestige, gold, land, and the hand of a beautiful maiden - and you'll find the sailing smooth and your "red beard" scraggly!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great game for the NES....., December 1, 2008

By 

E. Harris "End-Times" (Kansas City) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pirates! (Video Game)

If you're into the pirate thing, you definitely want to check this game out. The game centers around the Caribbean and you start by picking your nationality, skills and time period. Then, its a matter of gaining as much gold, land and fame (or sometimes infamy)as you can before you get old and are forced into retirement. Whether its running missions for governors, being a bounty hunter, following up on treasure maps or just plundering all the towns along the coasts, there's a lot of fun to be had with this game. Oh, and if you develop enough 'prestige' with the different nations, their governors will start introducing you to their daughters (!!).. and the wealthier the town, the better.. <clears throat>.. I always tried to marry the red-head, but she's hard to find :D
But like I said, after so long, you get old and are basically forced to retire at which point you are given a final ranking... I was never able to get the top ranking, which I think was becoming a governor, but I got 5th place once which was a 'sugar planter' <aw shucks> .. oh well, just call me sugar daddy I guess. Overall, a very good game for the nes that will never play the same way twice.