Choosing 1560 (the earliest choice) as the starting year places the player in the Caribbean almost devoid of influence but that of Spain, while 1680 (the latest choice) provides a mature Caribbean with many non-Spanish colonies and an overall higher degree of activity in the region. Different eras provide a different challenge, as political and economic power shifts between the four fledgling European empires. The era of play is one of the choices given to a player at game-start. The game ends when the player retires, at which point they are given a position in their future life, from beggar to King's advisor, based on accumulated wealth, land, rank, marital status, and other accomplishments. As the player character ages, fighting becomes more difficult, and deteriorating health will eventually force the character into retirement. The game also has no predetermined end, although as time goes on, it becomes more difficult to recruit crew members. Gameplay is open-ended the player may choose to attack enemy ships or towns, hunt pirates, seek buried treasure, rescue long-lost family members, or even avoid violence altogether and seek to increase their wealth through trade.
The player's loyalties may change over the course of the game they may also hold rank with multiple countries and may turn to piracy at any time. The player receives a letter of marque authorizing service as a privateer for the Spanish Empire, the Dutch Republic, the Kingdom of England, or the French colonial empire in the Caribbean. Pirates! is a single-player, open-world game. Versions for mobile devices have also been released. An enhanced remake, also named Sid Meier's Pirates!, was released in 2004. The Pirates! Gold remake, with minor improvements and better graphics, was released in 1993. The game was widely ported from the original Commodore 64 version to numerous other systems. The player is free to sail to any part of the above-mentioned lands, stopped by an invisible barrier southeast of Trinidad, all the way north to just northeast of Bermuda. The Pirates! playing field includes the Spanish Main (namely the northern coast of South America), Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula, the entire Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and all Caribbean islands, plus Bermuda. The game is a simulation of the life of a pirate, a privateer, or a pirate hunter in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It was the first game to include the name 'Sid Meier' in its title as an effort by MicroProse to attract fans of Meier's earlier games, most of which were combat vehicle simulation video games. Sid Meier’s Pirates! is a video game created by Sid Meier and developed and published by MicroProse in 1987. This game can be played also in a version for DOS. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java).
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