Frostyvegi
09-22-07, 08:22 PM
I was just browsing through some threads which discussed some new and old and possible future subsims (or sub action games or whatever's your fancy), and I remembered my first submarine gaming experience.
Going back to 1991 my mum scored a IBM PS-2 Model 50 PC.. the benchmark in personal computing for 1989.. (with it's 64kb ram, 20meg hard drive and 8khz processor). My birthday rocks around and she decides to take me to the local K-Mart so I can buy my very first PC game (we previously had an older PC, but I never actually bought any games.. they all were already loaded on the computer).
The Hunt for Red October had just been released at the movies and I fell in love with the concept of submarine warfare almost instantly. I found out that a game had just been released for the PC, and it was that which I was going to buy. On getting to the store and seeing THFRO on the computer at the store, I was less than impressed. However, there was a adventure game sitting on the counter, also involving the use of a submarine at some stage, called Codename: Iceman from the developers of another one of my favorite game series, Police Quest, being Sierra.
Long story short.. this was my first ever game that involved the use of a submarine.. just wondering if anyone else had played it?
Related wiki article here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename:_Iceman)
(I've been wanting to find a copy of it for the longest of time and play it again. I was never able to finish it originally due to a bug which would cause the game to loop constantly while I was stuck under the artic ice.. sigh)
Going back to 1991 my mum scored a IBM PS-2 Model 50 PC.. the benchmark in personal computing for 1989.. (with it's 64kb ram, 20meg hard drive and 8khz processor). My birthday rocks around and she decides to take me to the local K-Mart so I can buy my very first PC game (we previously had an older PC, but I never actually bought any games.. they all were already loaded on the computer).
The Hunt for Red October had just been released at the movies and I fell in love with the concept of submarine warfare almost instantly. I found out that a game had just been released for the PC, and it was that which I was going to buy. On getting to the store and seeing THFRO on the computer at the store, I was less than impressed. However, there was a adventure game sitting on the counter, also involving the use of a submarine at some stage, called Codename: Iceman from the developers of another one of my favorite game series, Police Quest, being Sierra.
Long story short.. this was my first ever game that involved the use of a submarine.. just wondering if anyone else had played it?
Related wiki article here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename:_Iceman)
(I've been wanting to find a copy of it for the longest of time and play it again. I was never able to finish it originally due to a bug which would cause the game to loop constantly while I was stuck under the artic ice.. sigh)