Silent Service - 1986

[TempDude]

Thought I'd crank up the old nostalgia radio and share the first sub-game I ever played: Silent Service, for the Commodore Amiga :salute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwxEUOMuTw
http://hol.abime.net/1923

It was released in 1986..I got it in 1989 but I was a bit too young to really play it seriously, but its still one of my favorite games from that era :).

[doomlordis]

My first too, I played this for a year solid. Sparked my interest in subs. Was it sid meier?

[Faamecanic]

Played it on the Commodore 64..... actually I STILL have the game/box/ and manual. :woot:

[TempDude]

I dont think it was Sid. At the very least I cant find his name in the credits (http://hol.abime.net/1923).
:)

[SabreHawk]

Hmmmm interesting. Lets see, my first was "Sub Hunt" for the Mattel Intellivision. Dont remember the year though.

Ahhh ok found it, was in 1982.
http://www.gamespot.com/intellivision/action/subhunt/index.html

[doomlordis]

Silent service 2 was huge step up , I remember being amazed at the "realistic" graphics.....

[Julhelm]

I dont think it was Sid. At the very least I cant find his name in the credits (http://hol.abime.net/1923).
:)
It was indeed Sid Meier who designed and coded the original C64 version.

My dad and I used to spend literally entire nights on war patrols with this game.

[Sailor Steve]

From what I remember it was indeed Sid Meier who designed Silent Service.

Oop. Beat me to it.

[razark]

Ah, many hours spent with Silent Service and its sequel. I've gotten the 6 year old to play SSII.

I started a bit earlier, with GATO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato_%28computer_game%29).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Gatoshot.png
Ah, how I loved the purple waters of the Pacific...

[Sonarman]

Here is a review (http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=013&page=082&thumbstart=0&magazine=zzap&check=1)of Silent Service from the UK magazine ZZap64 of the original (and best) C64 version of the game, Ouch 1986 24 years ago, I feel very very old!

[Dutch]

I bought Silent Service 1 for the NES (8-bit) in 1993. It was my first sub game. I was 6.

Once I got a PC I bought Silent Service 2 and 668(i) Hunter Killer (Modern Nuke Sub)

Loved both of them, then of course bought SH3 once it came out and SHIV.

To bad about SHV it would have looked nice in my collection.

[Commie]

My first sub game was for the Amstrad CPC. Can't find what it was called. I know the map was of the Heligoland area, but as to what nationality you were and who you were fighting it was never made clear.

My second game was 688 Attack Sub. Loved the VGA graphics and being able to be Soviets at a time when they were still the 'enemy' was great!

[IanC]

Ahh Silent Service, my first subsim love! Played it on the Atari 800xl :rock:

[sergei]

My first Subsim was this.
Anyone else here have this game as a kid?

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8516/up1l.jpg

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/3660/up2v.jpg

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/7462/up3f.jpg

It was frikkin' awesome :DL

[CaptBackasswards]

Yep! SS on Commadore 64. Came home from a college class one friday afternoon and sat down and had 3 beers while I was playing a patrol. Set the highest score I had, or my room mate had, and neither of us could ever top it. Great fun; classic game, for sure. Who says you can't drink and drive.:DL

[Heretic]

This was my first sub game: http://http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6946/wolfpack

http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic62645_md.jpg

[razark]

Who says you can't drink and drive.:DL

Don't drink and drive. It's just not safe. What you did was drink and DIVE. That's different.

[The Enigma]

Indeed it was Sid Meier

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/989875274-00.gif

[Takeda Shingen]

Moved to appropriate forum.

The Management

[mcarlsonus]

Silent Service 2 (Microprose) was the one that got all the attention in my younger, beer-swilling days! It wasn't a party until someone booted up the 20MHz 386SX, 640K, VGA (640 x 480) equipped device and flipped on that HUGE 15" MAG monitor!

[Harmsway!]

I vaguely remember someone on this forum making his own Sub board game for his kids. It was the coolest thing ever. He had a ton of photos. Very cool. Either that it was the game he built back when he was a tyke. Boy that was so long ago I think it might have been Neal himself.

[nikimcbee]

Ah, many hours spent with Silent Service and its sequel. I've gotten the 6 year old to play SSII.

I started a bit earlier, with GATO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato_%28computer_game%29).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Gatoshot.png
Ah, how I loved the purple waters of the Pacific...
That was my first subsim too.:salute:

[Laffertytig]

the first sub game i played was a game called hunter killer on the old zx spectrum. that was way back in the early 80's. does anyone else remember that game?

i was only 5 and it was one of the 1st games i ever played. ever since then ive always had an interest in subs and subsims.

from hunter killer i went to

silent service 1
688 attack sub
red storm rising
hunt for red october
silent service 2
silent hunter series

all fantastic games:)

[CaptainHaplo]

I got SS for the pc - booted from the COOL 5 1/4" floppy. I always stayed out till I was skosh fuel - no way I could get back to port. Then, when something finally spanwed near you, use the non-map/move mode to traverse all the way home. You never ran out of fuel in the "attack" portions, so you could sail all the way home at flank speed (if no enemies were near, none ever spawned on the way home).

Then I found SS2 - I had a pc with a whopping 20 Mb HD then! *You'll never fill it up they said. Found the sweetest spot - north of the bungo where the "cutover" to the Sea of Japan was. Sit there and at least once every 24 hours a task force would come through - carriers, BBs and the Yamato. I always passed on anything but the Yamato (for tonnage) and the carriers - because if you hit the carriers just right, one torp would either sink em or at least stop them dead in the water. On occasion it may keep going at like 3 knots. The TF would steam off at high speed, the escorts would circle, launch debris and off they would go. High TC, slowly closing on your target. After a bit, surface, and deck gun it down (ahhh -unlimited shells....) Yes - you could sink the Yamato or Shinano with your deck gun.....

Ahhh the memories. Now if someone would just do a decent remake of M1 Tank Platoon!

[Onkel Neal]

Played Silent Service II on the PC, it looked more like this version. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofy5K9XQrfk&feature=related)


My first Subsim was this.
Anyone else here have this game as a kid?



http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/3660/up2v.jpg



It was frikkin' awesome :DL

Wow, cool, have not seen that one, thanks for sharing. :salute:

I vaguely remember someone on this forum making his own Sub board game for his kids. It was the coolest thing ever. He had a ton of photos. Very cool. Either that it was the game he built back when he was a tyke. Boy that was so long ago I think it might have been Neal himself.

"So long ago it might have been Neal"? What does so long ago have to do with it, is that a crack about my age? :har:

Well, yeah, I did make one, (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/oldsim.html) when I was ten or so, a terrifically long time ago, yes, I know. :O:
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/subgame1.jpghttp://www.subsim.com/ssr/subgame2.jpg

[Oberon]

My first subsim:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQTLUwduTI

Borrowed off a friend at primary school. :yeah:

[Harmsway!]

"So long ago it might have been Neal"? What does so long ago have to do with it, is that a crack about my age? :har:

Well, yeah, I did make one, (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/oldsim.html) when I was ten or so, a terrifically long time ago, yes, I know. :O:
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/subgame1.jpghttp://www.subsim.com/ssr/subgame2.jpg

Yes that's the game. I remember you posting this back in the early days of SUBSIM Review. My brother and I made a game like that for armies back in the 70s. I find your submarine game much more intriguing.

As far as computer games I was crazy for SSI and SSII. Over the years though I pretty much kept to the WWII subsims. I have a copy of Sub Command but never played it. Same with Hunt for Red October.

[Pittiplatsch]

My first too, I played Silent Service for a year solid. Sparked my interest in subs. Was it sid meier?


http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5738/silentservice1.jpg

[Pittiplatsch]

Hmmmm interesting. Lets see, my first was "Sub Hunt" for the Mattel Intellivision. Dont remember the year though.

Ahhh ok found it, was in 1982.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFDQMlsoMM

[IanC]

Btw anybody who can't stand those early PC colors, can play Silent Service with emulators. I think the Amiga version looked the best. I play the Atari 800xl version.

[Arnold]

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5738/silentservice1.jpg I loved this game! You started out from a port in Austraila. It was neccessary to make a head-on shot to sink a destroyer, and you had to wait until the destroyer was close!

[nikimcbee]

All right! The original!:rock: