Buccaneers is a beat 'em up made game for Arcade machines, developed and released by Duintronic in 1989.
Overview[]
You control a sailor beating up pirate thugs in a pirate-themed world, much in the vein of The Secret of Monkey Island. You can attack them with punches and kicks.
Trivia[]
- The game is a very extensive ROM hack of Vigilante, an Arcade game released in 1988 by Irem that served as the official sequel of Kung-Fu Master / Spartan X. Some major differences include:
- The dual Zilog Z80 CPUs runs at 5,68 MHz and at 3,07 MHz, which are not the standard clock-rate of Irem M75 hardware;
- Dual Yamaha YM2203 soundchips are used instead of a single Yamaha YM2151
- The font used in Vigilante still the same, but the main color is in red instead of the original orange
- The music is different from Vigilante, as both games don't share the same theme setting
- The voices used in the game are still the same from Vigilante
- The game is slower paced compared to the original
- Due to that fact listed earlier, you cannot spam attacks at a fast rate like in the original, which makes the game harder to beat
- Air attacking is more laggy than usual
- Common enemies die in two hits instead of one
- Some hazards, such as explosive barrels, kill the player instantly
- The game doesn't include a secondary weapon which Vigilante included (nunchakus)
- The game was ported for the Commodore Amiga by another company. This version has yet to be undumped
- Duintronic was a small company localized at Barcelona, Spain. This was the only game the company ever did, and little info is known about the company itself.