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¿Question #1099?
Ludocrazy: Why do we love pirate-themed games?

Rococo_Zephyr: We don't. We also don't like elf games or farming games or sailing games. We hate the past.
leslauber: More importantly: Do we not?
Hendal: cause we think they where cool
Pithagoras: we love the pirate bay.... so I guess it naturally follows
Woelf: We only love the awesome ones. There have been a lot of stinkers over the years.
typebar: Because scurvy.
clawlan: they dont
ZeroZilla: Speaking personally, it's because I get to say "Y'arr!" a lot.
intrepideddie: Because pirates don't bathe. And that's just damn sexy.
Berud: arrr arr because rum is to expenive.
MisterCranky: I am going to ask DHEK what he thinks, and get back to you.
Felimid: *I* don't.
GrrBlarg: Why are they usually disappointing?
Spirit of 70: There is a certain romanticism in how we think of pirates.
jcaraway: Because they arrrrrr fun
Great Dane: We don't. We only love "pirate FANTASY"-themed games
Cringing Dragon: Because they're pirate themed. What more do you need?
cgund: I don't think I've ever played one.
GrimJester: wenches and rum
MamaRat: Everybody likes a little booty now and then.
coyotelaughs: Because there rated Arrr
joebelanger: They're romantic.
cmchavis: They aren't Monopoly.
gmcash: the sense of adventure, something one wouldnt probably do in real life
kensheffield: who says "we" do?
bulldozers: Seomthing about rape n pillage n burn the village ARRRRR!!!! comes to mind
boldot: YARRRRR!!
DHEK: Because pirates are cool!
Mr.Baggins: Because we are a bunch of violent, repressed geeks who revel on fantasies of rape and plunder.
arkibet: Because we want your booty!
Chris Page: Because you get to say "Arrrrr" repeatedly.
william_henshaw: Because of the hollywood image of their life, if we were more aware of the more despicable and mundane traits of pirates we probably wouldnt like them so much
POvidiusNaso: Because pirates are cool. For one thing, they don't care about grammar and stuff.
Kibbersdog: Because we all love getting booty!
jtspecial: Aaarrrh don´t know matwy!?
tdyck: Because they are always depicted in places where we all want to be
zonk67: AAAAARRRRRGGHHHH!!!!!
BooChihuahua: We do?
purvisa: "We" don't.
produceguy1765: you dont know me, so stop speaking for me
rawdawg: good call
Philip Thomas: We don't
prolifekilledmywife: Arrr.
Cut & Space: I don't know mate
dragonewtking: one word: booty
brainrob: Speak for yourself ...
vampywife: it's a cool them, but it probably stems back to peter pan and everyone's subconscious delight with that concept
Avatar_69: Arrr! Because of the Wiggles, me' hearties!
dwrigley: because my parrot tells me to
Embark: Pirates kill people and steal money?
PsyJam: Because we romanticize the Pirate life.. If we actually had to live in fear of their invading us, plundering our towns and raping our wives, mothers and daughters, I don't think we'd be so apt to love said games.
Melantha: Cos pirates are like dinosaurs -- mean and nasty, and not around any more.
mats-k: Beats me.
the_redstar_swl: 'cause pirates totaly kick ninja butt!
Mordachai: We do? Oh yeah, we do!
WatchmanX2000: romantic attachment to something that actually was bloody and disgustingly horrid.
kroxldyphivc: Cuz pirates are teh win
BeatPosse: Because no one makes good ninja games.
DS615: Because dinosaurs vs. ninjas gets old after a while.
orodreth: You get to say ARRRRRGH! in public. Many times.
LemonyFresh: Yaaaaaaaaaar.
MK-Ultra71: Arrrg.
Kazin: Aaarrrggghhh!
bigbadsteve: cause its so much fun to say arg matey and not be thought crazy
kinetic: Because eveyone loves parrots
SenorOcho: I don't like pirates, I just like saying "Arr!"
javelin98: Arrrr! Ye'll be walkin' the short plank fer that one, says I!
ZombyDawg: One word: Arrgghh!
GI Joe: I don't know, but we do!
MochaKimono: ARR.
Bridget J: Argh!
Evilnames: Because it gives me more reason to run around with a parrot on my shoulder and say YARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG
motoyugota: Pirates are cool
J Davison: Pirates, parrots, eye patches, swords, ship and cannons, who would love it.
Cerebus: Swashbuckling is fun.
Kyleroconnor: fond of parrots
kimapesan: ARrrr, matey!
obob: speak for y'self
pmartel60: Because pirate-themed lives would be too much trouble.
Toxidyne: Pointy swords. Shiny disks. Pretty lasses.
grinningpik: Because we all are pirates at heart.
CharlieWonka: Yaaarrrrr
scriptorum: We're nutso
steef: aye matey, it's for the gold and glory
Claytonius Maximus: Ludocrazy
Ludocrazy: We get to say "Arrrrr matey"
Lord_Prussian: Arrrrr, matey, you'll walk the plank for that question, you will!!!!!
ssmooth: Adventure without sense
Belash: ARRR
StormKnight: Because ninja themed games are so sneaky we can't find them
darthcliff: Arrr . . . walk the plank matey!
puffinge: meh
The Unbeliever: 42
bluebehir: Arrrrgh, I have no idea, matey.
meshuggener: We all could use a bit o' Rum and a whole lotta booty.
Favre4MVP: Who is we, and why don't they ever ask me to play pirate games with them?
ThatFalafelGirl: Who doesn't love Pirates!!?!!
xlorp: It's arrrgh for arrrgh's sake.
Gonzaga: Why do we love pirate movies?
WasQ: Who doesn't dream to be a pirate when we are kids?
2amp: adventure, escapism
jimchris: It's the combination of freedom, adventure, romance, riches, heroes and villains, all happening in caribbean islands and sun. If one did a game in today's real world pirates, I doubt it'd be as successful as the ones located in the 16th century.
melissa: Arrrrrrr me hearty!
Jern: Why ask me?
erli: I don't
dakarp: who is this we?
BengalBandit: Because we love pirates.
berserkley: Rarely used theme
heli: answer at http://spotlightongames.com/list/pirate.html
Karlsen: It be somethin in the bilge-water matey. It effect yea rum riddled heads
snoozefest: i don't know ... 'cause we like to say Arrrrrrr ?
gnomehome: Shiver me timbers, matey !
fizzix: Yar, 'tis a secret the sea keeps with her.
stephensj23: The advertising for Pirates of the Carribean was non-specific and rubbed off.
DenverWolf: Aye, that be right true, mate! Don't be knowing why 'tis, by me soul.
dbmurph22: Freedom and adventure
Ryno8: the Booty
ping9x: "We" don't.
hibikir: Because they drive'me nuts?
AlorielLelyn: Because pirates are one of the few true expressions of freedom this world has seen. Well, at least, being a pirate captain is.
dietevil: We don't
GuyHill: do we?
game_boy: Speak for yourself, you scurvy dog.
tragicpoet: Because we get to say "Gahr"
Chris Schreiber: we'll never be cool enough to be a pirate (beyond stealing software)
djflippy: Because it's fun to say, "Hoist the jib!"
Dave: Lifelong, unrequited lust for the governor's daughter.
Jackwraith: Because everyone secretly wants something for nothing
marjhan: Arrr, matey, because we love to pillage and plunder!
onky: Because it's a romantic theme and deep down we're all romantic suckers...:)
Blackwind: Cause we all want to pillage, rape and say "Arrrgh!" lots.
sos1: Mark Twain said it best: "Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. "
Cardinal Fang: Because pirates are COOL! Yarrrrrrr!!!!
Snooze_uk: 'cos you're all pirates?
Linnaeus: YAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
PopeBrain: Arrrrgh!
tardibean: Arrrrgh! we get to say that. lots
jens_hoppe: Pirates are great! Aarrrrr!!!
m_r_tyler: Speak for yourself. Pirate's Cove did nothing for me. Cartagena is overrated. Blackbeard was awful.
BobDodgerBlue: Pirates are cool
CortexBomb: Because we're secretly thirsting for the wide open sea?
chaddyboy_2000: We do?
louiseh: Chaotic violence
djlg: Argh, me hearties. That's why.
P.O.G.G.: the rum, the stealing, the adventure
ValJor: Don't say "we" because then you would be including me. And I don't like pirate-themed games
ynnen: I don't. I'm getting sick of them. Overused.
jttm: We can say 'booty' without people looking at us funny.
ejmowrer: Cause pirates are cool.
skelebone: I don't know why you love them, I'm sort of meh.
CDRodeffer: Two words: vicarious violence
sdownin: Yarr! Booty!