Captain Blood (video game) is a 1980s video game designer, Bob Morlock, who had picked "Captain Blood" as a nickname in tribute to the film starring Errol Flynn of the same name. Morlock develops a new video game about aliens and space travel. While testing for the first time his new project, he becomes warped inside the spaceship of the very game he had designed. Soon after, Blood is forced to go into hyperspace mode and, due to an incident, gets accidentally cloned 30 times. For 800 years, Blood tracks down every clone, as each one took a portion of his vital fluid. When
Captain Blood (novel) continuing the series with sequels, Sabatini wrote fifteen more short stories set during Captain Blood's pirate career. Two of the tales in "Captain Blood Returns" ("The War Indemnity" and "Blood Money") may be viewed as continuations of events that took place in the original novel, but all the stories are contained within the timeframe of "Captain Blood". Eight of these new stories were published in 1931 as "Captain Blood Returns" (retitled "The Chronicles of Captain Blood" in the British publication) along with two of the "Tales of the Brethren of the Main" that had not been incorporated into "Captain Blood".