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Skybird
01-31-07, 03:55 PM
http://cgi.ebay.de/CODE-NAME-SECTOR-BY-PARKER-BROS-1977-COMPLETE-EXC_W0QQitemZ160078618112QQihZ006QQcategoryZ1182QQ rdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem

Played it like crazy when I was a boy... Would buy it myself for sentimental reasons, if only shipping costs wouldn't be so discouraging ($30...)
waste gate
01-31-07, 04:01 PM
It looks like 'battleship". Is it the same premise?
Skybird
02-01-07, 06:23 AM
No. Four destroyers under player(s) command, moving 1-9 grid crossings per turn in a straight line (vertically, horizontally, diagonally. each ship gets a range to the sub before and after it moved. sequence is: ship 1's move - sub moves one space - ship 2 moves - sub moves 1 space etc. Sub travels in a straight line, changes course only after being attacked, and survive. Ship needs to position itself on top of the sub to conduct one attack, which means: selecting one of three depth levels. If the attack fails, ship is relocated as many fields away as was it's last speed setting.Primitive for today'sS standards, but for an 11 year old boy - fascinating, all that blinking LED stuff and console-look to play around with! I played it for hours in a row, later started to use self-limitations like declaring dark areas on the map as prohibited waters.
Malefactor
02-01-07, 09:30 PM
Oh,the memories that brings back. :yep:
I spent many an hour with that game chasing down those subs,plotting with those 4 different colored crayons.

I got that for Xmas many,many,years ago and still have it somewhere, buried in the depths of a closet .A few pieces missing,no book,mangled box as of last time I seen it.I don't even know if it stilll works,but I still have it.
:up:
ASWnut101
02-01-07, 10:00 PM
I wish I could read German...:shifty:
Skybird
02-02-07, 06:35 AM
I wish I could read German...:shifty:
The description is in English, isn't it? And the location of the auction is (was) the US anyway, so you should have find it at American Ebay, too.
Letum
02-02-07, 07:42 AM
English version:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CODE-NAME-SECTOR-BY-PARKER-BROS-1977-COMPLETE-EXC_W0QQitemZ160078618112QQihZ006QQcategoryZ1182QQ rdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem