Disney's FIRST Pirates game
 

Thought this was interesting.... Way back in 2000, before POTCO, before the Pirates movies, and even before Toontown, some of those very same Disney developers created "Pirates of the Carribean - Battle for Buccaneer Gold". It's a "virtual reality arcade game" that's still in operation at the DisneyQuest arcade in Orlando. What strikes me is how very similar the game looks to the POTCO sea battles, some 7 years later. Supposedly, 4 people play at a time -- one of them steers the ship, the rest shoot the cannons, and the crew earns "gold" for sinking ships. It even features Jolly Roger. Check it out:

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20...irate_game.jpg
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010706/game.jpg


Here's an old article about the making of it, written back in 2001 by Joe Shochet, who I believe is stiill one of the Toontown/POTCO developers.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20...schell_pfv.htm

Whoa, now that's something! Looks like Disney had some practice with their coding making this game before making Toontown and POTCO

Wow, lol that looks pretty cool.
First time I'm down in Florida you can bet I'll be goin there.

Hmm very interesting. They must have thought about the game for a long time.

Interesting I never knew, and it does kind of look like POTCO

~Cpt.Sea