Pirates and Video Games.
Ahoy! We are the pirates.
What be a pirate? Well, piracy is a form of crime that takes place at sea pirates plunder cargo ships and other attack sometimes small coastal villages.
The heyday and which is the bandit is the eighteenth century in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, piracy still exists today, especially in North Africa.
The archetypal pirate era is summed up by: a cover door eye is very gruff, is a true alcoholic rum company has a parrot and saber fights can have a wooden leg.
This image is mainly due to the literature of the nineteenth century (especially with "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson). But we forget too quickly that these famous pirates are also part of the main sources of inspiration for the world of video games.
Kaboom! Video games, this is our hobby!.
There have been numerous incursions theme of piracy in video games, here are some examples.
Nowadays, hackers continue to rage with games on the internet as "Seafight".(Who has never seen an advertisement for this game when browsing the net?).or "Pirate Storm" of browser games that do not require installation on your computer because everything happens on the browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.)..
All that to say that the pirates are far from buried!.
Ahoy! We are the pirates.
What be a pirate? Well, piracy is a form of crime that takes place at sea pirates plunder cargo ships and other attack sometimes small coastal villages.
The heyday and which is the bandit is the eighteenth century in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, piracy still exists today, especially in North Africa.
The archetypal pirate era is summed up by: a cover door eye is very gruff, is a true alcoholic rum company has a parrot and saber fights can have a wooden leg.
This image is mainly due to the literature of the nineteenth century (especially with "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson). But we forget too quickly that these famous pirates are also part of the main sources of inspiration for the world of video games.
Kaboom! Video games, this is our hobby!.
There have been numerous incursions theme of piracy in video games, here are some examples.
- Dad game "Civilization" Sid Meier had already capitalized on this theme with his game "Sid Meier's Pirates!" In 1987, a game combining strategy and action-adventure.
- In 1990 began the series of point-and-click "Monkey Island" and his famous hero named Guybrush Threepwood. The humor emerges that makes this game particularly endearing pirates.
- Series "Anno" plunges you right in the heyday of piracy. And pirates are often threats to your colony, alas.
- "Tropico 2" is a game that allows you to run an iron hand an island of pirates to make hackers happy but also allow them to loot as much as possible!.
- The Sims Medieval with an extension called "Pirates and Nobles" as what it pays hackers!.
- The saga of Lego is to parody the film "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Nowadays, hackers continue to rage with games on the internet as "Seafight".(Who has never seen an advertisement for this game when browsing the net?).or "Pirate Storm" of browser games that do not require installation on your computer because everything happens on the browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.)..
All that to say that the pirates are far from buried!.