Can't get old mac game to play

I have an old game, Pirates! Gold! for Macintosh. I am running OSX 10.3, and I installed Mac OS9 with the additional disc that came with my mini mac and yet I still cannot get this game to open and run. Other classic apps. such as Sherlock are working fine so it seems to be something about this game. Anyone have any suggestions?
mac mini Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Actually Charles, you were right on about the display
settings. We changed to 256 colors, and screen size
of 640 X 480 and all of a sudden it works! Seems to
be running well so far. I'm still using Jaguar and I
think I may stick with it for a while. You're not
the only person I've heard from who is having
problems with Tiger and old games compatibility.
A lot of older software, games especially, was written by people who didn't pay attention to Apple's guidlines, and who hard-coded in certain items. In your case, they expected a max screen size of 640x480, and max colours of 256. Apple explicitly said to not expect anything of the sort, but some people knew better. It's a classic error, one which even Apple coders made. <cough> MacPaint 1 </cough>...
Thanks for your reply.
no problem.

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