With SH4 coming, what was the first subsim you played?

[robbierob2005]

The first subsim I played was 'Silent Service' on the commodore back in the 80's.

http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/loadscr/s/silentservice.png

I played that game for many hours!! Still have the original box:rock:

[OneTinSoldier]

SHIII and Dangerous Waters, I got them both at about the same time.

Dangerous Waters is a good game. Due to it's complexity it's a deeper game and somewhat more interesting, but it doesn't have the fun factor and graphics of SHIII. I prefer the WWII era, and since SHIII is a WWII sim and has nice graphics and a good fun factor it has kept me gripped more than DW.

Cheers

[Morts]

SHIII:)

[unruhly]

My first was 688 Fast Attack on 1.44 floppy! I'm actually in a picture in the game taken in the doorway going into the Torpedo Room.

[AirborneTD]

On the C-64, Silent Service and Red Storm Rising. Followed later with Aces of the Deep and most of the others.

[Prof]

Mine was Silent Service II on the Amiga when I was about 8. I bought the game on holiday in Scotland and spent the rest of the trip reading the game manual so I'd be ready when we got home :)

[Egan]

Aces of the Deep. Still my favourite. You can't beat that immersion level.

[renaissanceman]

I can't remember the first subsim I played, but the first that hooked me was Aces of the Deep on floppies. I can see the Command Aces of the Deep CD from where I am sitting now! SH3 has the same effect. I'm hoping for that feeling with SH4.

[Joe S]

Sub Battle Similator was my first subsim and is still one of the best in terms of gameplay. Graphics are crude and sound effects non-existent but the gameplay was great. we developed a manual firing solution for it and played that sim more than any other. Joe S

[Ark]

Red Storm Rising

[Ginthis]

Aces of the Deep for me too. Many fond memories of that sim. I still have the map of the Atlantic that was included with it on the wall of my computer room. :)

[NefariousKoel]

Silent Service on C64. When was that? 1984-5? I'm losing my memory in old age.

Yep, that's when I broke my sub cherry.:rock:

[Steeltrap]

I remember Silent Service, 688i and Red Storm Rising, but I can't remember the chronology. RSR I played on an Amiga 2000. 688i was floppies on a PC.

Also played AOD, SHI-III, Harpoon....most of them I guess!

[Sailor Steve]

Silent Service, Atari, 1987.

[malkuth74]

The first subsim I played was 'Silent Service' on the commodore back in the 80's.

http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/loadscr/s/silentservice.png

I played that game for many hours!! Still have the original box:rock:

I played That on my old Nintendo. That would be the first nintendo.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Fast Attack:yep:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Silent Hunter 2. That theme tune is still cool.

[Arrowhead2k1]

This one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/688_Attack_Sub

[Hans Schultz]

I got Silent Service II back around 1991 or so.

[Schultzy]

Silent service II here also. Never looked back. :up:

[rodan54]

My first subsim was none other than Silent Hunter I. :smug:

[CCIP]

Well, depends on the definition of what constitutes really playing a subsim!

Me and my dad played Silent Service II on the Atari all the time, back when I was 12.

On the other hand... I was 12, didn't really know English - and my dad wasn't a sub expert by any means :p

But I have such fond memories of it that two years ago, in the pre-release hype of SHIII (just like we have for SHIV here now ;)), those memories flooded back and made me run out and get SHIII. In the years between I became a real flight sim fanatic, and yearned for a historical game with a good career mode. So, good memories + good campaign = CCIP goes to sea on a U-boat. Have been a subsim diehard ever since :up:

[robbierob2005]

Silent Service on C64. When was that? 1984-5? I'm losing my memory in old age.

Yep, that's when I broke my sub cherry.:rock:

It was 1988. I read it on the original box right now ;)

[Iron Budokan]

Silent Service II was my first but I absolutely fell in love with Aces of the Deep. I thought it was a great game and was curious if SH3 could live up to it. Happily, it did.

But I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Silent Service II....

[DaMaGe007]

I remeber palying sh1 on the c64, and wolfpack was a favorite too, cant remember which computer it was on tho.

[Antrodemus]

Silent Service I on the 'tari. :up:

Was it the 800XL or the 520ST?!? hmm... damn you memory, damn you.

[jmr]

Gato by Spectrum Holobyte. I'll never forget that purple water on a CGA monitor.

[Captain_Jack]

I still have all of mine. The first one was Silent Service II in 1991.

Here they are from left to right...along with my "Chief of the Boat"...:)


http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u241/Burbus66/USSDrumMar07001.jpg

[Shaffer4]

Wolfpack was my first.

[GSpector]

Wow, I feel so old http://www.bombs-away.net/forums/images/smilies/geezer.gif (http://www.bombs-away.net/forums/misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=0&forumid=2#). My 1st Sub Sim was Gato.

I can't say I was impressed with it back them, I was still trying to figure out what type of Sim I really liked. I preferred Combat Flight Sims for a long while.

By 1st favorite Sub Sim would have to be Silent Service.

And before anyone suggest I try any of the many listed above, I have and enjoyed all mentioned except Fast Attack, never heard of it.

[Schultzy]

@Captain Jack. Thanks for the pic mate. The box of SSII brings back some memories. Ah...microprose and their manuals. :) <drifts away...>

[boatfull]

Wolfpack was my first.

Same here.:up: I liked how you could go from sub to sub and the graphics were
not bad for its time.

[Mylander]

Silent Service II in '90, unless you count Avalon Hill's Submarine! in '79.

Mylander

[Snakeeyes]

1984, My older buddy Andrew's house... Commodore 64 part of the Fleet Commodore game. I loved the idea of the periscope but I sure as hell didn't get all the math involved.

1987 Red Storm Rising on the Tandy 1000 EX computer. We were the talk of the neighborhood back then seeing how we had a 2400 baud modem and a FULL 640K. Wow. We were the ****. I continued to play it all the way through college on airplanes on my laptop. I had to explain to people sitting next to me torpedo and decoy sound effects.

688 attack sub 1988 Christmas in my stocking from good ol' Dad.

Hunt for Red October (it blew). 1988 bargain bin.

Seawolf 1990 - Cool sonar display!!

Rediscovered my love of subs around 1995 with Janes 688I

Sub Command - 2002 (late I know)

Dangerous Waters

SHIII

SHIV 2007

[Antrodemus]

I still have all of mine. The first one was Silent Service II in 1991.

Here they are from left to right...along with my "Chief of the Boat"...:)
rofl...

Chiefy looks like he's been waitin' for walkies since SSII got released. :rotfl:

[irish1958]

Silent Hunter 1
wolfpack
dasboote
all about the same time

[robbierob2005]

I still have all of mine. The first one was Silent Service II in 1991.

Here they are from left to right...along with my "Chief of the Boat"...:)




Nice pic! It seems you have them all. :D:D

[Ark]

DOH! I said Red Storm Rising earlier.

I totally forgot about playing GATO. Wow...that was a long time ago. :o

[AG124]

I guess I came to the sub sims scene a little later than most of the others here.:88) The first one I ever played was the 1996 CD-ROM re-issue of AoD - that was in August of '97. (I was about 12 years old at the time). I remember how much I loved that game; my proudest moments though were when I sank my first ship in a campaign (it was a Light Merchant of about 2,300 GRT and my U-Boat was some sub class of Type II although I don't remember what class :cry:) and when I sank the BB HMS Malaya in a convoy Southeast of Iceland (I think) :o. She took four bow torpedoes and rolled on her port side- I watched through the periscope.:smug: Haven't managed to sink a BB in a SHIII campaign yet though.:shifty: Also, the only other capital ships I ever saw in an AoD campaign were a Bogue class CVE (which I damaged before being sunk) and some CL (a Dido I think, although it may have been a Fiji or Southampton, the only other cruisers in AoD). Eventually though, I ugraded from Windows 95 to 98SE and couldn't figure out how to run the game on that OS.:cry: But by that time, I had received two free copies of SHI as promotional items within a couple of packages of educational software...:hmm:

[NefariousKoel]

Semi-OT:

Microprose was the sh*t back in the day. :rock:

[kiwi_2005]

In this order:
Fast Attack - modern sub sim quite good, the missions had a time limit of 2hrs if i can remeber right.
Aces of the Deep - Brilliant!
SH1, then SH2, then Sub Command then SH3 then Dangerous Waters and soon to be SHIV:rock: :rock:

:arrgh!:

[Spray]

SH1 many many years ago.

[nvdrifter]

Original Aces of the Deep on 3 1/4 floppy disk. Ahh, the good old days of staying up until 3am trying to lift my damaged and flooding U-boat off of the sea floor before I ran out of oxygen. True Das Boot moments. :D

[flintlock]

Not too far back for me: SH3 is it. We have some true old salts here at subsim. :up:

[Tonnage_Ace]

Well it wasn't until I happened upon this:

http://goty.gamespy.com/2005/pc/index3.html

that I heard of the silent hunter franchise. First time I really played a simulation game actually. In fact I was never really interested in the navy until I played this game. Now I've read several books and seen some more old sub movies I never would have seen. I still don't know that much about the War in the Pacific as far as WWII is concerned but I will...

[Safe-Keeper]

The 688 demo. Never got the full game.

Then, many years later, I wanted to try something new and asked on an FPS forum for a good sub game. Silent Hunter III was a universal answer, and I ended up getting it. I liked it from the beginning, even though I noticed it needed patching (by the time I got it, it had already been patched all the way to 1.4b, but my computer was without Web connection, so it took a while for the patch to reach my installed copy).

[TheSandman]

Started with Silent Service II, but also played Aces of the Deep (could never figure out, but heck I was like 8 or 9 years old at the time) before moving onto SH1. Also wound up playing Wolfpack and a few others in there as well.

[d@rk51d3]

Silent Service II got me hooked. Bought it for quite a few different platforms, but never found one to match the "actual screenshot" on the box. :nope:

[Ark]

Holy cow, GATO came out in 1983.

I remember how much fun it was playing it. I used to LOVE that game.

[Aimbot]

SHIII, but I've been playing flight sims since "The Red Baron."

[EAF274 Johan]

My first was Epyx Sub Battle Simulator on the AtariST (around 1986 I think). My dad tested it before he wanted to give it to me :)

After that: Silent Service (AtariST), Aces of the Deep, SH2 and SHIII...

[nvdrifter]

The first naval game I played was sort of like Jane's Fleet Command but it was back around 1986 or so. It was modern surface ship warfare with missiles and stuff for the Commodore 64. Anyone remember the name of this game? I can't remember. :hmm:

[IRONxMortlock]

Silent Service for me too
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[TarJak]

Silent Hunter 1 about 2 months after it's release. Got me hooked and can't get enough of the series since.

[Red Devil]

The first subsim I played was 'Silent Service' on the commodore back in the 80's.

http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/loadscr/s/silentservice.png

I played that game for many hours!! Still have the original box:rock:

Same here! And then 688 Attack sub which I still have, and it still plays although graphics can be a bit naff at times.

[Psyon]

Silent Service II here. still have it installed on my ancient 386, which by the way stills run!! play it all the time! funny how the old computers [hardware] were far more stable than todays. still have a 486 too that runs :doh:

sorry, back on topic..

errrr, maybe not, more rambling.....

never tried silent hunter I, never seen it anywhere or i would have bought it. silent hunter II & III did not interest me because of the atlantic/u-boat premise. [sorry you europeans but that war was over 15 years before i was born;) ] but my dad did serve in the pacific theater in WWII so i was brought up drooling those fleet boats with them fancy ice cream machines they had:yep:. so naturely i am a pacific campainer by heart.

i have been waiting for so long for a WW II pacific sub game that i could sink my teeth into. it was a long wait, hopefully mine ships this monday.

i also believe that, (contrary to popular theories) silent hunter 4 will sell more than SH II & III.
there are a whole slew of americans silently waiting for a chance to get back into a fleet boat :p

two scoops with sparklies please

end rambling....

[Dowly]

Silent Service on my Commodore 64. :up:

[yankee-V]

Silent Service - Commodore 64, circa 1985

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Well I first tried playing Red Storm Rising when my dad wasent looking when I was 8. But my first subsim that I REALY played was SHIII.

BTW: you can realy tell how old people are here in this thread. :p

[NefariousKoel]

The first naval game I played was sort of like Jane's Fleet Command but it was back around 1986 or so. It was modern surface ship warfare with missiles and stuff for the Commodore 64. Anyone remember the name of this game? I can't remember. :hmm:

Yes, I remember that one, just not the name. I think I recall the Iraqi Exocet attack on the USS Stark as the first mission on the list named "Stark Realities", right?

[NeonSamurai]

Gato was my first, played that one so much, the game ran out of ship names and had to have it reset 5 times :)

Also played most of the major and several minor subsims too (silent hunter series, silent service series, aotd, etc)

[melin71]

I think my first was Up periscope on comandore 64. not sure. becourse i played Silent service too allmost the same time =) long time ago. :)

[Zero Niner]

I started off with Silent Service for the Apple ][ (hehe guess I'm showing my ages here)

Other sub sims I have owned & played:

Silent Service II
Silent Hunter + a couple of patrol expansion packs
Aces of the Deep
Red Storm Rising (not really a sub sim, but a cool sub-based game nonetheless)
Jane's 688(I)
Silent Hunter III

SIlent Hunter IV will be added to this list as soon as I can buy it, which will be as soon as I can when it's released, lol.

[CaptJodan]

First subsim ever was the ol Silent Service for the NES, which I don't hear that often around here. One of the all time favorites. And I still have the thing. Not sure if it works, though. Got the bug with it. :)

[Flanker15]

I think it was called Subwar 2050 but it was a subsim set in the future with hi-tech one man subs that had some sort of sonar visualistaion system that let you see out the front of the sub. Has alot of hi-tech stuff but still had some realistic things like thermal layers, water pressure, active/passive sonar and a component based damage model.
It was fun to get hit by a torp and lose your boyancy and then slowly sink in to the ocean and get crushed!

[Shaffer4]

The first naval game I played was sort of like Jane's Fleet Command but it was back around 1986 or so. It was modern surface ship warfare with missiles and stuff for the Commodore 64. Anyone remember the name of this game? I can't remember. :hmm:
Yes, I remember that one, just not the name. I think I recall the Iraqi Exocet attack on the USS Stark as the first mission on the list named "Stark Realities", right?

Harpoon?

[NefariousKoel]

The first naval game I played was sort of like Jane's Fleet Command but it was back around 1986 or so. It was modern surface ship warfare with missiles and stuff for the Commodore 64. Anyone remember the name of this game? I can't remember. :hmm:
Yes, I remember that one, just not the name. I think I recall the Iraqi Exocet attack on the USS Stark as the first mission on the list named "Stark Realities", right?
Harpoon?
No, this was before the first (pc game) Harpoon came out. I think this particular game came out around 86-88, at least on my C64 Although I had the old P&P Harpoon around that time. :D

I recall having to sit on the bridge and issue orders while looking through Binos. It would take forever for those damnable Russians missiles to come into sight.

[GSpector]

Yea, I remember Subwar 2050 by MPS. Still have the manuals. NOT what I would call it a Sub Sim but it was fun.

To Shaffer4, I was thinking the same thing and if I'm not mistaken, the 1st harpoon came out when I was in High School back in 83-85.

I remember the 1st Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple ][e and the 1st Falcon. Okay, so I also remember PONG on the Odyssey in the 70's.

yea, yea, I know, I'm old. After all the 1st computer type system I ever saw and touched was a Key-Punch Card reader/writer when I was about 8.

[StandingCow]

Silent service on the PC, and then Nintendo.

[Bandit4]

Been coming here and reading the news and these forums for years, but this is my first post.

Silent service and UP Periscope for the C64. I would play those 2 until the early hours in the morning. It's 3:43AM now. I guess things haven't changed :D

[Fat Bhoy Tim]

Hunt for Red October on the PC in 1989, followed closely by Wolfpack just a few months later in 1990. I mention the latter as I don't really count the PC version HFRO as a proper subsim, even if it was more realistic than the console counterpart.

[Fat Bhoy Tim]

Wolfpack was my first.
Same here.:up: I liked how you could go from sub to sub and the graphics were
not bad for its time.

The graphics were flipping immense for the time, such depth of colour and a rather dark, dingey look to the controls.

[Drebbel]

Sub Battle Simulator :up:

[kptn_kaiserhof]

:ping: my first subsim is silent hunter 1 now i got the whole silent hunter colletion :ping:
from 1-3 im still getting number 4 on pre order



anchors away my boy's anchers away!!!

[Doomgiver]

lets see it was Janes 688(I) and then it was sub commander

[melendir]

First Sub Sim (or something like it) for me was Silent Service II... I think. At least it's first I remember now:)

- Silent Service II
- The Hunt For Red October
- Aces Of The Deep (Really loved the game)
- Jane's 688(i) (Really liked the thick paper manual)
- Silent Hunter II
- Tom Clancy's SSN
- Sub Command
- Dangerous Waters
- Silent Hunter III (I'm in love with Das Boot -movie and miniserie and this game can go really in the same mood with imagination)
- Silent Hunter IV (Soon, I hope) :D

[ijozic]

Here they are from left to right...along with my "Chief of the Boat"...:)


http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u241/Burbus66/USSDrumMar07001.jpg

Interesting how the boxes got smaller and smaller over time :down:

(Sorry for quoting the image but it was relevant for the point)

My first one was Silent Service on Atari 520ST (I still have the computer somewhere and I believe it works). I remember reading a lot about Up Periscope! but never had it while I had C64.

I think I saw or tried most of the sub sims that followed. Silent Service II was pretty good, but Aces of the Deep was remarkable and so was the Silent Hunter! Played Seawolf a lot but it was arcadish in lots of ways. The only one I didn't saw/played were the Sierra's Fast Attack! and that Grey Wolf: Hunter of the North Atlantic. Now that the WWII sub sims are re-done, I wish Sonalyst would upgrade the graphics of their sub sims (and some other tweaks; e.g. like semi-dynamic campaign and randomizer for single missions).

[oche]

- Gato (the very first for the PC)
- 688 attack Sub
- Wolfpack (does this counts?)
- Silent Service II
- Das Boot (not bad, good simulation, it even had an enigma machine)
- Silent Hunter (My most memorable moments with a submarine simulation)
- Silent Hunter II (Lots of headaches)
and finally Silent Hunter III...

[CptGrayWolf]

The first subsim I played was 'Silent Service' on the commodore back in the 80's.
I played that game for many hours!! Still have the original box:rock:

Yup, me too Silent Service on Atari 800xl. Everybody party like it's 1985!! :rock: :rock:

EDIT: Hey guys don't forget you can still play those old games on emulators. I don't see anything wrong with sharing this site, sorry in advance if it is. http://www.emuasylum.com/

[Avatar]

Silent Service for the C64.
Load "*", 8, 1

[bishop]

Sid Meier's Silent Service, Atari 800XL, 1986. Seems like it was only 21 years ago... :lol:

[Fat Bhoy Tim]

- Gato (the very first for the PC)
- 688 attack Sub
- Wolfpack (does this counts?)
- Silent Service II
- Das Boot (not bad, good simulation, it even had an enigma machine)
- Silent Hunter (My most memorable moments with a submarine simulation)
- Silent Hunter II (Lots of headaches)
and finally Silent Hunter III...

why wouldn't wolfpack count?

[oche]

Don't know...for me "Wolfpack" counts as a subsim, very good for it's day, one thing i really liked was that you could switch between your different subs in the wolfpack, but i'm sure that because of the DD/TRANSPORT/SUB interphase on the same game someone would say it's not fully a subsim but more like a "triple-action" game...

[Deep-Six]

The first subsim to ever get my interest was Silent Service on my C64. Later when I got my very first PC, (yes, I know I am late) in '94 SH1, AoD(the fdd version and the cd version). Skipped SH2, I now am playing w/ SH3. And soon to come SH4. When it gets here on the selves.:stare: :yep:

[Shipwreck]

Gray Wolfs :rock:

SW

[thrax38]

Gato on my apple 2c, many nights sneaking around whilst my parents slept...

[Ducimus]

1st was Silent service on the old 8 bit NES.
2nd was AOD on dos.

[U-139]

Spectrum Holobyte's "Gato" on the AppleII. That was a looong time ago.:rock:

[Seatroit]

Sub Battle Simulator :up:
Proof that gameplay trumps graphics.
A terrific program for it's time.

[El-Fish]

Mine was actually a HomeBrew someone had setup on a Burrows 1500(?). It was all text readout but man did that game reel me in. Followed soon after with my own Apple ][, PC, C64 and any Sim I could get my hands on.

[Daddy Dragon]

My first sub sim, if you want to call it that was Avalon Hills Submarine! c.1979 or 1980. But that was for the table top. My father purchased an Atari in 1982 at the local Sears, and I seem to recall something called Submarine Commander (but can't be sure now if that was the exact title). It was similar to the periscope game at the local arcade.

After that, just about ever sub game I could get my hands on. Lost of Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, and I do remember the original Harpoon game. I picked up the original pen & paper rules after reading that all of the naval battles in Clancey's Red Storm Rising had been played out using those rules, and when the PC game came out while I was in the Army, I snatched that up too. Never tried Aces of the Deep though.

[Yak]

Silent Hunter way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the Macarena rulled the airwaves... *shudder*

oomm, badda-de, budda-de macarena...

[Grothesj2]

Silent Service....and it's why I am glad to be back to the Pacific. Always liked this theater better. More interesting to my mind.

[enemyminds81]

silent service on NES. i didnt own a nes myself, had a master system. my dad had a 386 at the time, but he wouldnt let me play games on it, i was probably 10- or 12 when i first played that game on nes. man i loved it so much i remeber. i actually borrowed my friends NES because he was not using it much, just to play that one game for like a month i remeber.

I tried it recently years after playing it on a ROM emu, and it's still cool. need to try to find the dos version though.

first real sim though was janes 688 in the late 90s, loved that game played it to death, even if i didnt know how alot of things worked:p also played quite a few other janes games. some of the best sims from air to sea were made by Janes/EA

also played some aces of the deep

sh3 after along time of playing FPS.

sh3 is the best to date honestly

not a sub sim or anything, but the the wing commander series are also some of the best sims out there, except maybe the first x-wing on dos hehe...the good ole days

[Kitzbuell]

I believe it was 'Silent Service" on a PC Jr. It ran poorly on that box, as I remember but got me hooked on Sub Sims from the first day I ran the software (could it have been on a 5.25 floppy?). :o

[ScottD]

My very first Sub Sim was Silent Hunter on the Commodore 64. That and F-15 Strike Eagle where the very two first games I played on it.

The coolest thing was my fathers uncle was over watching me play it (I was about 11-12 at the time) and they had a copy protection scheme where you had to look up the class of destroyer in the manual to play. Well my Fathers Uncle was in the USN during WW2 and he was able to tell me what they where before looking them up in the manual! :rock:

[Flakchak]

First subsim was Silent Service, the first one. Played it on a Tandy over at a parent's friend's house. Needless to say, they also has Strike Eagle as well. :D

After that, it was:

Silent Service - 1989 NES

Had GATO in a box of floppies that was given to us when we first bought a PC, but never got into it. Kinda sucked without a manual.

Silent Service II - 1992 - DOS
688 Attack Sub - 1993 - DOS ... late
Red Storm Rising - 1993 - DOS ... yeah, I hit that one late
Aces of the Deep - 1994 - DOS
Silent Hunter - 1995 - DOS
688i - 1998 - Windows

Never really got into Silent Hunter II. I bought it at EB, along with the Pacific Addon here when I was my academy for work. Passed the time well :know: Played Silent Hunter III when it first came out, but it crashed all the time, and I didn't like what the copy protection was doing to my system.

As for modern stuff. I really really really wanted Fast Attack when it first came out, but never bought it. Same thing for SubCommand and Dangerous Waters. If I found a sim that modeled the 637 class, I'd be all over it.

Now comes Silent Hunter 4. Was preordered at Amazon, now cancelled because... well... they suck. Placed my order with Ubi this morning, 1 business day shipping because I don't know the value of a dollar. Hopefully I'll be up and running by the weekend.

[Samu*]

Silent Hunter I, way back at 1996.

Does someone recall or do I remember wrong but atleast N-Europe release had its manual at floppy disk. Buyer had to print it out :D

[P_Funk]

Am I the only one who walked into EB and bought SH3 as a subsim virgin?

[Spaxspore]

A dos game, called WOlf Pack circa 1996-7

Next one was

Sh2 in 2002

[charlesmester]

Back in 1979 I was at a toy store with my kids and I spotted a game system they were calling a computor. It was just a key board and you had to hook it up with a rf box to your tv. It was silver with little rubber keys and if you wanted to run a program it would take you days to do it. The only reason I bought it was because it had a game cartige with it that had a flight game and a sub game on it. The cartridge looked alot like an atari cartridge. The flight game was just to take off from the airport in a jumbo jet and land again, always crashed. But the sub game was a lot of fun. It was like shooting ducks at a fair. All you did was shoot torp. at ships that came across your path at different ranges. The graphics for that time was really impresive and only fifty bucks to me was a good buy, had a lot of fun with that one. Wish I could remember the name of it.

[DarkStar173rd]

Tom Clancy kept my VisaCard numbers right behind his shirt protecter, the book, the movie, then the game Red Star Rising. I was the only MSC Crewmember to lug around a 486Tower 17"Monitor,Keyboard&mouse,small speakers and play Red Star Rising at sea aboard the USNS POWHATAN ( T-ATF 166 ) Ahh! the early 80's. Glad its at AOB 180:|\\

[Capt. Shark Bait]

my first was, or rather is, SH4:rock:

[swash]

The first subsim I played was 'Silent Service' on the commodore back in the 80's.

yup, same here. For such a simple game by today's standards, I spent many hours battling those black sprite block shaped ships on the screen.

[kakemann]

Seawolf, by Electronic Arts: year 1994. Actually a great sountrack!

[zylark]

Not played all that many sub games. SS2 on the amiga was the first, followed by Hunt for Red October (which honestly wasn't all that good). Then a long hiatus, and got into it agoin with SH3 and now SH4.

[NefariousKoel]

my first was, or rather is, SH4:rock:

Woot!

Sharky broke his cherry! :rock:

:cool:

[wstaub]

Was A game called Gato released in 1985 I think for the Apple IIC. Now for some old school my First computer game was Zork played on a vax pdp 1180 mainframe.

[kakemann]

Was A game called Gato released in 1985 I think for the Apple IIC. Now for some old school my First computer game was Zork played on a vax pdp 1180 mainframe.
Did a google search on the game, cus i hadn't heard about it. :yep:
This one? Looks cool! :rotfl:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/jrjacobs76/mac/gato.gif

[wstaub]

Was A game called Gato released in 1985 I think for the Apple IIC. Now for some old school my First computer game was Zork played on a vax pdp 1180 mainframe.
Did a google search on the game, cus i hadn't heard about it. :yep:
This one? Looks cool! :rotfl:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/jrjacobs76/mac/gato.gif

That brings me back a long ways....

[dogshu]

Silent Service, by Microprose, for the Commodore 64:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Service_%28video_game%29

Also one of the first video games I ever played, though I don't really remember how close it was to the first, since I was around 8 or 9 at the time. Maybe it was '86 or '87? I can't be sure though.

I do remember that I got good enough with my torpedoes that I could charge a convoy, on the surface, during daylight... I just had to aim for the destroyers (which were charging me) right in the center of their bow... the destroyers didn't dodge (and the C-64 wasn't advanced enough to know how unlikely a head-on torpedo hit was), so I could sink them that way almost every time. :p Then it was easy to sink the remaining 4 or 5 merchant ships left (there were never more than 5 or 6 ships per convoy, if I remember correctly). Not very realistic, but I was having a blast just like I am playing SH4. :sunny:

[GSpector]

Back in 1979 I was at a toy store with my kids and I spotted a game system they were calling a computor. It was just a key board and you had to hook it up with a rf box to your tv. It was silver with little rubber keys and if you wanted to run a program it would take you days to do it. The only reason I bought it was because it had a game cartige with it that had a flight game and a sub game on it. The cartridge looked alot like an atari cartridge. The flight game was just to take off from the airport in a jumbo jet and land again, always crashed. But the sub game was a lot of fun. It was like shooting ducks at a fair. All you did was shoot torp. at ships that came across your path at different ranges. The graphics for that time was really impresive and only fifty bucks to me was a good buy, had a lot of fun with that one. Wish I could remember the name of it.

To charlesmester,

Could it have been a Timex Sinclair 1000?

[Capt. Shark Bait]

my first was, or rather is, SH4:rock:

Woot!

Sharky broke his cherry! :rock:

:cool:

:rotfl:

it's funny, tho. when SH3 was released, i thought about getting it but didn't:-?

[bruschi sauro]

The first sim that i played is SILENT HUNTER 1.:rock:

[Bane]

This one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/688_Attack_Sub

Same here. It was released in '88 when I was only 10 years old.

I can remember the wireframe representation of the ocean topography and navigating through the canyons trying to evade the Soviets.

Good times.

[Topo65]

Silent Service and Up Periscope! Both in C-64!

[Major Johnson]

Silent Service on Nintendo, late 80's/early 90's (?) My Dad was the first one in the family to get a computer, I was a late bloomer at like 40 years old! And now it's how I make a living. Go figure. But my parents would do the snowbird thing in the winter. I saw SH1 on the shelf, bought it and installed it on my Dad's 100mhz Compaq! I would head down to their house and play for freakin' hours! We're talkin' 10 AM to 11 PM!! No food and few bathroom breaks!! I was totally addicted. Bought SH2 and could never get into it. Bought SH3 just so that the sale would generate SH4 in the hopes they would finally go back to the Pacific and take advantage of all the advancement in technology. I bought 2 copies of SH4, and gave one to my brother. I haven't gotten into SH4 yet. All the negative posts have put the scare into me, but I'm starting to get the bug to give it a shot! :) Maybe tomorrow night when I have the proper time to dedicate to it.

[USS_shipmaster]

first was sh1 (1995) and later aces of the deep(6 month after sh1). I dreamed about the program that can mixed their best features. :-). sh3 was very close to my dream.