Pirates of the Barbary Coast
A trading game in which the player is the captain of a trading frigate and has to trade in the various Barbary Coast seaport towns in order to raise the ransom money to get his kidnapped daughter Katherine…
Pirates of the Barbary Coast is an adventure developed by Starsoft Development Laboratories, Inc., released 31 December 1986 on Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Pirates of the Barbary Coast is
Pirates of the Barbary Coast is an adventure game developed by Starsoft Development Laboratories, Inc. and released in 1986. It was published by Artronic Limited. It is available on Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A trading game in which the player is the captain of a trading frigate and has to trade in the various Barbary Coast seaport towns in order to raise the ransom money to get his kidnapped daughter Katherine back from Bloodthroat the Pirate.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Pirates of the Barbary Coast launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Leaderboard.
Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Leaderboard.
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