Buccaneer (game) home port. To coincide with the recent Pirates of the Caribbean movies, a special "Pirates of the Caribbean" edition of Buccaneer was launched in 2006. Buccaneer (game) Buccaneer was a board game published in Britain by Waddingtons between the 1930s and 1980s. The game board depicts the sea, broken into squares. Around the edges are ports, some owned by players, others being "free ports". At the centre is Treasure Island, upon which is placed semi-realistic looking treasures: diamonds, rubies, pearls, gold bars, and rum barrels. The 1938 version of the game had a roll up canvas board (packaged in a
Treasure Island on the first draft outside London. While there, his father provided additional impetus, as the two discussed points of the tale, and Stevenson's father was the one who suggested the scene of Jim in the apple barrel and the name of "Walrus" for Captain Flint's ship. Two general types of sea novels were popular during the 19th century: the navy yarn, which places a capable officer in adventurous situations amid realistic settings and historical events; and the desert island romance, which features shipwrecked or marooned characters confronted by treasure-seeking pirates or angry natives. Around 1815, the latter genre became one