It has been already mentioned that we speak about 1660 and at this point we start our corsair career, playing “Sid Meier's Pirates”. A small boat and a small crew are at the disposal of a young 18-year old captain (player), who will have to overcome 20 years of sea-outrages, find treasures and flirt with sexy daughters of governors. As Phil and I played this game together, we decided to share managing duties - I danced with the daughters and Phil did the rest: directed our ship through the bright-blue Caribbean Sea, fought in sea-battles and hand-to-hand combats.




“Live the life” is the motto written at the beginning of the game, and it’s interesting that together with our hero we really spend many years navigating, searching for treasures and making career. It’s quite easy to play and it’s impossible to stop doing it.
Only now, when we’re 43, we’ve finally married governor’s Curacao daughter, defeated and robbed nine dreadful Caribbean Sea pirates (their prototypes are taken from real history - Morgan, captain Kidd, L'Olonnais and the others), saved our family from the slavery, our pockets are full of gold and we’ve got enough landed property presented to us - at the moment we are thinking of retiring. What if we begin defending any royal flag?

The only pretension is that time flies too quickly. Hardly do we dismiss the team and share the gold, when we have to spend 8 months on the dry land. But generally the game is cool, and it’s great to navigate through the places we’ve read so much about and recognize familiar cities and islands - Maracaibo, Barbados, Tortuga and choose our own way ourselves.