What was your first ever sub sim?

[Mush Martin]

What was your first ever sub sim.

for me it was Silent Service on 8bit ninetendo.
I remember laying graph paper across the screen
and marking with a pencil for tma.

[TarJak]

Silent Hunter (1) Commanders Edition was the fist one I owned. First one I ever played i can't remember the title but was on a C64.

[Skybird]

Silent Service -> Amiga. Great machine in it's time.

[Camaero]

Enigma: Rising Tide

Wasn't really supposed to be a sim but it is what got me into all of this.

[kiwi_2005]

Fast Attack & Aces of the Deep.

[NefariousKoel]

Silent Service Commodore 64.:rock:

[TheBrauerHour]

Silent Service for Nintendo for me as well.

[The Avon Lady]

Enigma: Rising Tide

Wasn't really supposed to be a sim but it is what got me into all of this.
:yep:

[Oberon]

Same as you Mush, SS on the NES, borrowed it off a friend at primary school and spent quite a few merry hours sinking Jap merchants in my 8-bit sub! :D

[darius359au]

Silent Service C-64

[Rhodes]

Jane's 688 (I) Hunter Killer!!!

[SmokinTep]

688i for me........

[Konovalov]

Fast Attack from Sierra software back in the 90's. Looked pretty but was renowned to be a little on the buggy side. :D

[Tchocky]

Red Storm Rising :)

[Mush Martin]

What was the very first one ?

[Oberon]

Gato was the first for Personal PC IIRC:

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/simhist.html

[Mush Martin]

Thanks Oberon the walk through memory lane was cool :up:

[bradclark1]

In order:
SH2
688I
Fast Attack
Sub Command
CAOD
SH1
SH3
Heard to much bitching about SH4 so I'm waiting.

[Heibges]

I think is was Silent Serice 2, on the IBM PC Junior, aka the Peanut, around 1988.

Edit: The ticking noise of the engines made my roomate in college nuts.

[AG124]

Aces of the Deep for me, in the summer of 1997. It was the CD-Reissue from Sierra though, and not the original version on floppy disk (and no, it wasn't CAoD, which I didn't get until about two years ago).

[Sailor Steve]

Silent Service, Atari, 1986.

[antikristuseke]

Das Boot was the first subsim for me, i think i played it in 93 on my trusty old 386 though the game itself was released in 90

[dean_acheson]

Seaquest, Activision, Atari 2600.

[azn_132]

SH2 for me

[XLjedi]

...another vote for Silent Service on the C64.

Remember how the ships sank?

If not, this should jog your memory: :lurk:

[XLjedi]

Seaquest, Activision, Atari 2600.

I don't think I'd call that one a "Sub Sim" :hmm:

...unless you think Combat on the 2600 would also qualify as your first tank sim.

[Penelope_Grey]

688 Attack Sub on Mega Drive (genesis)

[Nightmare]

My first was an old game I think that was built in BASIC called USS Fast Attack that ran on a home built Zenith computer back in the early 80's. I was too young at the time (4 or 5) so it required my father’s help but we'd play for hours. It still is the only game to my knowledge that actually allowed use of nuclear warheads (specifically SUBROC).

Not long after that we got a new machine and I moved on to Sub Battle.

[dean_acheson]

Seaquest, Activision, Atari 2600.

I don't think I'd call that one a "Sub Sim" :hmm:

...unless you think Combat on the 2600 would also qualify as your first tank sim.

well sure! it went up and down and fired forty billion torpedoes at sharks and stuff.

that is what modern nuke boats do, ain't it?

[dean_acheson]

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/2600/seaquest.png

[DAB]

My first was 688i Hunter Killer. Amazing experence, won't forget her... I mean it!! :oops:

[longam]

Silent Service on a Apple IIgs. First and last Apple.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Silent Hunter 2 for me.
never knew nr 1. :nope:

[Letum]

Me in the bath with a lump of sub-shaped wood.

NO puns or innuendos please!

[Tchocky]

NO puns or innuendos please!

You don't know me at all, do you? :ping:

[Takeda Shingen]

CAoD was my first, but 688(i) takes the prize as my all-time favorite. Nowadays, I spend most of my time playing a combination of SH4, SH3 and DW.

[JSLTIGER]

Silent Service, NES 8-bit

[LobsterBoy]

Silent Service 2 on an IBM 386 at about the same time as Red Storm Rising on the C64.

For some reason the sims seem to be getting harder.......

[ReallyDedPoet]

Fast Attack :yep:

I know I played a few oldies, but can't think of the names.


RDP

[Reaves]

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/2600/seaquest.png

Haha that's the first sub game I ever played! On good old atari.
Otherwise it's Silent Service 2 on a very ancient IBM compatible.

[Iron Budokan]

My first was a game on the TSR-80. It came with a book from which you could copy (as in type by hand) programs. I typed in the submarine program. No graphics, just numbers as the bow angle of your sub slowly reached a 90-degree angle on the merchant ship you were targeting. There was even a DD that would come after you. You could "dive" and stay under until the DD went away....which from my exprience it never did.:rotfl:

But my first real sub sim was Silent Service II.

[Marcantilan]

Silent Service or Gato, back in the C-64 days.

[dean_acheson]

http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/2600/seaquest.png

Haha that's the first sub game I ever played! On good old atari.
Otherwise it's Silent Service 2 on a very ancient IBM compatible.

Well it's obvious that Seaquest is superior to SH4, the devs didn't even bother to model sharks and diving enemy subs that fire at you in the supposedly "modern" sim ....progress my arse! ;)

[Zayphod]

What was your first ever sub sim.

for me it was Silent Service on 8bit ninetendo.
I remember laying graph paper across the screen
and marking with a pencil for tma.

Hi, new guy here (be gentle, ok?).

For me, also Silent Service on Ninetendo.
Second was Silent Service I for DOS (still have the CD, too).

[I-25]

688 attack sub for the sega genesis. i was about 5 years old at the time jaja still play it somtimes.

[Steel_Tomb]

My first was a demo of SHI. Then got the full version of SHII, then moved onto SHIII and now SHIV. Tried DW but couldn't get the hang of it.

[Gorduz]

I first played GATO at my dads old computer. And then decided to see if i could find some modern equivalent on the web. I then stumbled across the SH1 demo. And then I bought SH1. Following up was:
Sub Command
SH2
DW
SH3

[yankee-V]

Silent Hunter on the Commodore 64. Game had really simplistic graphics, but had decent AI and a very good manual.

[Officerpuppy]

688 attack sub for the Sega Genesis was my first, I would spend hours playing this game whenever I rented it.:cool:

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Wow im realtivy new.
SHIII Bought it 3 years ago and never looked back! :yep: :rock:

[nikimcbee]

Gato:rock: On the original ibm pc!! I used to play on level 7. Levels 8,9, you needed to know morse code to know what the mission was! I made timed maps of each mission, so I knew where to intercept the convoys.:lurk:

Then, Silent Sevice on the pc and my friends c64 (which had better sound).

Red Storm Rising!

My all time favorite is SH1, commanders edition:|\\ :ahoy:

[adekun]

Silent Service on the Amiga. Love the intro music from the second. :rock:

[goldorak]

GATO was my first naval simulation.
On an amstrad pc 1512 with CGA color monitor nontheless, if you could call that a color monitor. :p
After that I'm afraid to say that there was the desert, I was much more interested in avalon hill board games than computer games. And so fast forward to 2005 when I bough my second naval computer game Dangerous Waters. After that I waited for SCS naval combat pack so back to Sub Command, Fleet Command and 688i Hunter Killer. After that I bought s second hand 100% perfect SH I edition and that fired again my interest towards WWII naval engagements so I bought also SH 3.
Thats not bad at all for someone who has always considered flight simulations THE GAMES for pc. :cool:

[Mush Martin]

GATO was my first naval simulation.
On an amstrad pc 1512 with CGA color monitor nontheless, if you could call that a color monitor. :p
After that I'm afraid to say that there was the desert, I was much more interested in avalon hill board games than computer games. And so fast forward to 2005 when I bough my second naval computer game Dangerous Waters. After that I waited for SCS naval combat pack so back to Sub Command, Fleet Command and 688i Hunter Killer. After that I bought s second hand 100% perfect SH I edition and that fired again my interest towards WWII naval engagements so I bought also SH 3.
Thats not bad at all for someone who has always considered flight simulations THE GAMES for pc. :cool:
I still play Panzer General II :up:
I find that avalon hill turn based games (Squad Leader) are among
the greatest games to transition to digital along
with othello as you dont have to mess with the
pieces anymore.
M

[Mush Martin]

Wow im realtivy new.
SHIII Bought it 3 years ago and never looked back! :yep: :rock:


Welcome aboard noob :rotfl:

[goldorak]

I still play Panzer General II :up:
I find that avalon hill turn based games (Squad Leader) are among
the greatest games to transition to digital along
with othello as you dont have to mess with the
pieces anymore.
M

I had the following games form Avalon Hill : air force, sixth fleet and central america the united states backyard war.
My favorite game was the last one, unfortunately it was never "ported" to the digital realm.

[Zero Niner]

Sub sims I have played:

MPS's Silent Service (Apple ][); with *joystick* :D
MPS's Red Storm Rising
MPS's Silent Service II
Dynamix's Aces of the Deep
SSI's Silent Hunter
EA's Jane's 688(I)

And of course, Silent Hunter 3.
And I'll play SH4... eventually...

[JALU3]

Read the title.

[SteveW1]

Silent Service on a Commodore 64 used to sit up late with my dad playing all the time, then Silent Service 2 on an IBM Compatable now playing SH2, SH3 and SH4.

[Bort]

Wolfpack!:rock: :lurk:

[McBeck]

GATO rulez!!!

[STEED]

Back in the days when men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from alpha centory were real furry creatures from alpha centory dared to explore the unowned galaxy and thus the empire was forged.

Oops what was I drinking. :oops:

Well my first one was on the old 16bit Sega Mega Drive 688 Attack Sub, never got the hang of it. :damn:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/688_Attack_Sub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/688_Attack_Sub)

And then years latter on my first PC Win95 I saw this bargain of a game for £2.00 and it would take me down the road of this whole series, yes it was Silent Hunter then SH2 and from there SH3 and SH4. :D

[Captain Strangelove]

GATO, as long as my father had an XT. After he had upgraded to an AT it was no longer playable.
Recently tried it again on my current machine: just one blur and then the 'periscope' shatters.

[Bill Nichols]

I might have everyone beat for oldest subsim. SSI's Torpedo Fire for Apple II+ (1981) was my first computer game. I soon afterward learned Applesoft Basic and began writing my own sub sims.

http://www.thelegacy.de/pics/cover/Thumb/t/TNTF_BOX.JPG

You can read a review here:

http://cgw.vintagegaming.org/galleries/issues/1.1.pdf?CGWMUSEUM=2d7e82ad8b01b47cbc81da98a27c1436

:|\\

[seaniam81]

for me it was Silent Service 2, then Aces of the Deep, Silent Hunter 1, 688i, Sub Command, Dangerous Waters and Silent Hunter 4.

[Fat Produce]

My first sub sim game was the Seawolf game for pc. Man that was a good old game.

[Sailor Steve]

Back in the days when men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from alpha centory were real furry creatures from alpha centory dared to explore the unowned galaxy and thus the empire was forged.
'Twould have been funnier if you'd spelled 'Centauri' correctly.:p

[bookworm_020]

Silent Service 2 on an apple mac!:hmm: That was a long time ago!

[Radioshow]

First subsim for me was Gato for the IBM 8088 PC with a 40 meg HD. If i recall you could re-arm at a sub tender as well. Not much too it though. I was pretty young as well. Most played was Fast Attack. Actually beat all the scenarios.