An interview with Flaster Siskin, designer of Pirate King

On November 13 Flaster Siskin left this rather enigmatic comment on my review of Pirate King.

I am sorry to inform you, but the product available at Tuesday Morning is a discontinued, unauthorized and unlicensed version of the game. I must recommend that you do not buy it from there.

The New & Authentic version is currently available at Thought Hammer

As Sag says:

Whoa -- that is a pretty BIG chunk of information you just dropped. Would you care to elaborate a bit?

Since, Flaster didn't reply, I decided to poke around a bit and discovered that Temple Games, the original publishers of Pirate King, had appearantly dropped off the face of the earth. It's website returns a 404 - Not Found error. Temple Games is probably best known for re-releasing Polarity in 2005 and ChiZo Rising in 2007. Early in 2007 they announced that they would be distributing Pitchcarin North America - apparently that never happened.

Suspecting foul play and the possible involvement of Jinteki, I decided to do a little investigative journalism and make the mysterious Flaster Siskin, if that was his real name, "elaborate a bit." Well, that, and he  offered to do an interview. Plus he's a Hottie! (that's him on the left above)