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name	publisher(developer)	year	description	platform
James Clavell's Shōgun	Infocom	1989		Amiga
Pirates!	Microprose (MPS Labs)	1990	[22]* [52]* [37]***Pirates! is a dramatic simulation of 17th century life on the Spanish Main and you are cast in the leading role as Privateer Captain. Leap into an era of turbulence and change a time when fabulous fortunes can be won and lost. Extensive graphics enable you to navigate across the Caribbean, slipping in and out of ports as opportunities arise. Decide when to raid treasure-laden galleons and when to put your crew ashore to plunder towns. Learn to fence with a rapier, longsword and cutlass. And, at all costs, maintain morale on ship to avoid a mutiny. To succeed in this adventure you must choose the most lucrative expeditions, forge the most fruitful alliances and negotiate the greatest profits. If you've got the skill and strength of character to do so, you'll achieve your goals - wealth, power, prestige, even romance. Pirates! A challenging combination of history, adventure and intrigue. Features: - Simulation of 17th century life - Non-stop action and strategic decision-making - Extensive graphics with 70 different scenes - Various difficulty levels - Comprehensive manual - Hundreds of hours of exciting entertainment	Amiga
Plundered Hearts	Infocom	1987		Amiga
Spoils of War	German Design Group	1991	Like most of GDG's games, Spoils of War is a strategic/managerial wargame. You command your conquistadors in exploration, colonization and battle on land and sea. Although the setting strongly reminds of the Spanish occupation of America in 15th and 16th century, the game is settled on a fictive planet called Paradise, in the Orion Sector. Like in Heirs to the Throne, gameplay is divided into different phases and activities. You explore and conquer new lands, build cities and havens and try to hold your lands against your opponents, or, even better, try to conquer their territories. Battles are very tactical and strategical, as troop experience as well as supplies have a strong impact on battles, too. For up to 4 players, the game offers scalable difficulty levels, strong computer AI, an economical as well as different land- and sea-battle systems and even a savable Hall of Fame for the best conquistadors.* [106]* [97]*** [37]	Amiga
St. Thomas	Rainbow Arts;Grandslam (Sphinx)	1994	The game was finished/reviewed already in 1990, but it seems that it took a couple of years until it was successfully published.	Amiga
The Three Musketeers	American Action;Infogrames	1987		Amiga
UMS	Rainbird (Intergalactic Development)	1988	Addons: UMS Scenario Disc 1 - The American Civil War UMS Scenario Disc 2 - Vietnam* [80]* [83]* [85]* [1]*Review for add-on "The American Civil War". [52]*Review for add-on "Vietnam". [52]	Amiga
Mito Koumon II: Sekai Manyuu Ki	Sunsoft (Tose)	1988		NES
Musashi no Bouken	Sigma Enterprises (Quest)	1990		NES
Pirates!	Ultra Games;Palcom Software (Rare)	1991	It is important to note the original version of Pirates! was based on hollywood style pirate movies rather than historical fact. Any history present was added as details to the game after the game design had been finalised. In the NES version, "tobacco" is replaced by "crops". But this is are [b]very minor[/b] alteration when you consider that the major factor and historic fact of slavery offers no overt effect on gameplay; no versions of Pirates! deals with this history at.	NES
Tenka no Goikenban: Mito Koumon	Sunsoft	1987	This game is based on a long-running television series playing in Japan taking place during the Edo period. It's one of those games where its really difficult to figure out what you actually have to do. You run around in a Japanese town hitting people, talking with people, collecting items. But for what purpose I couldn't find out. And information about this is sparse. The game features lots of text for an "action" game. The towns are detailed enough and set the right atmosphere for the historical setting. It even features some speech-samples, all thanks to being one of the first 2Mbit cartridges for the Famicom. However that lack of direction and being clueless of what to actually do in this game made it unplayable for me.	NES
Time Lord	Milton Bradley (Rare)	1990	It is the year 2999, and warriors from the planet Drakkon are launching a savage attack on Earth. Their weapon: a powerful time travel device. Their objective: to control us by changing the course of our history. To win this war, we must meet the Drakkons on a unique and dangerous battleground: our own past! You are a fearless fortune-hunter, hired by desperate scientists for an experimental journey into the 4th dimension. Your code name is Time Lord. Your mission: blast into the past to save the present from certain doom! Battle the aliens in four historical time zones. Search for weapons sent back by the scientists - and decide when to use them. Solve puzzles to collect the mysterious Orbs that hold the secret of time travel. Be cautious yet quick, Time Lord. You have one short year to free history or be history! And the evil Drakkons have all the time in the world...* [37]* [29]* [27]*NES-LZ-USA, 1990-09 in the USA NES-LZ-UKV, 1991, in the UK Amazing how buildings don't change shapes at all over a 3000 year period. [Zerothis]	NES
Cutthroat Island	Acclaim Entertainment (Software Creations)	1995		GB
Pirates!	Microprose	1988		Amstrad CPC
Plundered Hearts	Infocom	1987		Amstrad CPC
Robinson Crusoe	Coktel Vision	1987		Amstrad CPC
The Plot	Firebird (Odin)	1987		Amstrad CPC
]Time Dungeon - American History	Advanced Operating Systems	?		Apple II E
James Clavell's Shōgun	Infocom	1988	Infocon's first interactive fiction to be enhanced with graphics. This game cannot be published in modern Infocom collections because of intellectual property egest. This game is based on the book, not the movie. [Zerothis]	Apple II E
Noble Quest	DDC	1991		Apple II E
Noble Quest	DDC	1991		Apple II E
Pirates!	MicroProse	1987		Apple II E
Plundered Hearts	Infocom	1987		Apple II E
Quest for the Scarlet Letter	Superior Software	1982	You are an investigator sent back in time to investigate and record the supposed events Nathaniel Hawthorne based his novel on. Your unique camera records emotional states and themes but is limited to capturing only four moments.	Apple II E
Plundered Hearts	Infocom	1987		Atari 400/800
Pirates!	Microprose	1989	[22]* [52]*Pirates! is a dramatic simulation of 17th century life on the Spanish Main and you are cast in the leading role as Privateer Captain. Leap into an era of turbulence and change a time when fabulous fortunes can be won and lost. Extensive graphics enable you to navigate across the Caribbean, slipping in and out of ports as opportunities arise. Decide when to raid treasure-laden galleons and when to put your crew ashore to plunder towns. Learn to fence with a rapier, longsword and cutlass. And, at all costs, maintain morale on ship to avoid a mutiny. To succeed in this adventure you must choose the most lucrative expeditions, forge the most fruitful alliances and negotiate the greatest profits. If you've got the skill and strength of character to do so, you'll achieve your goals - wealth, power, prestige, even romance. Pirates! A challenging combination of history, adventure and intrigue. Features: - Simulation of 17th century life - Non-stop action and strategic decision-making - Extensive graphics with 70 different scenes - Various difficulty levels - Comprehensive manual - Hundreds of hours of exciting entertainment	Atari ST
Plundered Hearts	Infocom	1987		Atari ST
UMS	Rainbird (Intergalactic Development)	1987	Addons: UMS Scenario Disc 1 - The American Civil War UMS Scenario Disc 2 - Vietnam* [83]* [13]* [33]Review for add-ons scenery disks 1 & 2. [22] [22]* [1]*** [52]	Atari ST
Pirates!	Microprose	1987		C64
Plundered Hearts	Infocom	1987		C64
Ship of the Line	Richard Shepherd Software	1983		C64
The Three Musketeers	American Action;Infogrames	1987		C64
Voyage of the Mayflower	Cadmean	1984		C64
West Indies	PDPD Software	1991		C64
Roundheads	MC Lothlorien;Argus Press	1987		ZX Spectrum
Ship of the Line	Richard Shepherd Software	1982		ZX Spectrum
The Great Fire of London	Virgin Games (Rabbit Software)	1985		ZX Spectrum
The Plot	Firebird (Odin)	1988		ZX Spectrum
Roundheads and Cavaliers	MC Lothlorien;Argus Press	1986		BBC
Explorers of the New World	Future Vision Multimedia (SuperStudio)	1995		Mac OS Classic
James Clavell's Shōgun	Infocom;Activision (Infocom)	1989	Published in 1989 by Infocom The Lost Treasures of Infocom II published 1992 by Activision. Only included in the CD-ROM version. Not in the 3 1/2" disk version. cdrom macos6 macos7 osclassic 68k 256color*** [52]	Mac OS Classic
Pirates!	MicroProse	1988	[52]	Mac OS Classic
Plundered Hearts	Infocom;Activision (Infocom)	1987	[4]***Published in 1987 by Infocom The Lost Treasures of Infocom II published 1992 by Activision.	Mac OS Classic
Treasure Island Interactive	Hollywood Interactive Digital Entertainment (PADMINI Multimedia;H.I.D.E)	1995	[media=youtube]3kviYahh-vc[/media]***	Mac OS Classic
UMS	Rainbird	1988		Mac OS Classic
Die Fugger II	Sunflowers	1996	Germany in the year 1600 - the empire of the Fuggers is destroyed. Now it's your turn to rise it again. "Die Fugger 2" is a turn based trading simulation. During the game you can expand your business over 16 towns and try to get emperor of the country. Trading is the way you'll get your money. But it's not that easy, your trails may be plundered, your stocks may burn down, or anything else. It's also possible to get your own pirate hideouts to plunder your competitors goods. But be careful, if they find out who did that, you may end up in prison. When you claim a higher political position it's possible for you to change laws, rise taxes and many more. This all sounds very complex, but after a few hours of playing it's quite easy to handle as the menues are clean and direct.	MS-DOS
James Clavell's Shōgun	Infocom	1988	See also [game=#183554]Shogun by Synergistic[/game].	MS-DOS
Pirates!	Microprose	1987		MS-DOS
Plundered Hearts	Infocom	1987		MS-DOS
Robinson Crusoe	Coktel Vision	1987		MS-DOS

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