Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.

Joining me today, we have Three Moves Ahead founder, Troy Goodfellow. It is so good to be here. I have not been on the show in, I think, two months. Honestly, it doesn't feel like I've been on the show for two months with all that's been going on. I have completely lost track of, like, what is going up when. it's been it has been a hectic couple months

hasn't it been a crazy, it has been a hectic couple months.

Hasn't it been a crazy summer? It has just been absolutely intent. I mean, it's been intense for me for work, but I mean, it's, it just feels like everything is going on all of a sudden for some reason. Yeah, absolutely. And it's, we've done a lot of like ad hoc episodes. And I totally hadn't clocked that like we hadn't been on a podcast together in like ages.

So it's good to, good to finally be back together.

We also welcome back our buccaneering freelancing friend, Fraser Brown.

Yarr!

I'm very happy to be in this love in between you two guys.

Fifth Wheel Fraser.

That's what we call you.

Anyway, so last month, our Patreon backers voted on a Sid Meyer-related topic

and decided that they wanted us to finally address Sid Meyers' pirates,

the game of trade, colonial warfare, ship-to-ship

combat, and, of course, formal dance.

Troy, like, I missed, so, like, Sid Mears Pirates, the original one, not the 2004 remake,

was one of those games that, as I was starting to become cognizant of PC gaming, was referred

to constantly.

It was like a seminal work. It was really important. It was a touchstone for a lot of like trade

and exploration and combat games that came out in, in the, you know, in the early 90s. But I never

played it and I never really sort of like learned what it was or or how it stood out in its context.

Can you take us a little, takes back in time to the original Sid Meyers Pirates and like,

what was that game about and what made it stand out for its era?

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