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rikeloldaboss
03-09-25, 07:03 PM
this game was made before i was born!
i do wonder, how did you guys buy it before it came to steam and things, and how much did it cost back then?
Shadowblade
03-09-25, 07:46 PM
well, I just bought my physical copy of SH3 somewhere before Steam and Uplay. I dont remember the price.
Good to have some young blood here.
Back in the day, you went to the computer store in the strip mall and browsed the boxes of video games on the shelves. Sometimes, you'd be looking for a certain game that you'd read about in a magazine. The boxes were about the size of an average book. Sometimes, they contained several 5 & 1/4" or 3 1/2" floppy disks and a manual. Then everything moved to CDs.
In the days of floppy disks and even in the early days of CDs, you'd have to switch discs in the middle of the game to continue. Sometimes switching back and forth between discs. Ahhh ... fun times!
blackswan40
03-09-25, 09:10 PM
SH3 original CD cost me £25 from HMV store in Leeds in 2005 but then in 2009 my local woolworths store merion centre Leeds had a closing down sale.
Everything must go posters on the store windows i poped in all the PC games dvds were priced £5 in dump bin mesh baskets i looked through them i picked up 3 SH3 dvds.
Then i asked have you any more of the SH3 dvds the assistant went into the stockroom and came out with another seven copies i then asked would i get a discount if i bought all 10 dvds.
I got all ten dvds for £30 absolute bargain these SH3 dvd were on the revival lable no star force protection on disc and once installed no need for dvd in drive all those dvd's are now long gone sent all over the world to other :subsim: members whos dog had chewed the SH3 disc or dvd drive had chewed it up.
They say its better to give than receive helping out a fellow Uboat/Subsim Nutjobs then a week or two later i get a PM from him saying Hey Bro I got the SH3 dvd mr postman delivered it today thankyou blackswan40 then Onkel Neal made me a Mod Guru what goes around comes around or so they say.
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=1230&pictureid=11186
Cybermat47
03-09-25, 10:15 PM
I was just starting kindergarten when it came out lol
Way back time I started with Silent Hunter then SH2 came out and I joined this forum 20 or more years ago. I can recall doing an image of a U boat sinking a ship named Star Force which was a nasty piece of software. The excitement I felt waiting for SH3 was intense and I was not let down (thanks to modders).
I switch between SH3 and SH5 and love both games. SH4 never grabbed me and Uboat is pretty but is still not "there" yet.
Shadowblade
03-10-25, 04:18 AM
I have this edition of SH3:
https://img-cdn.heureka.group/v1/119c3948-c9ba-4efa-b54f-c9751c1faa71.jpg
I have this edition of SH3:
https://img-cdn.heureka.group/v1/119c3948-c9ba-4efa-b54f-c9751c1faa71.jpg
Your cover version looks a little bit like my version.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HdAAAOSwDtxgXH~7/s-l1200.jpg
But you will not see my Silent Hunter 1 CD from Green Paper :haha::har:
Shadowblade
03-10-25, 04:48 AM
@GrenSo - yeah, just different logos on bottom :)
I didnt see SH1 or SH2 in shops here.
@GrenSo - yeah, just different logos on bottom :)
I didnt see SH1 or SH2 in shops here.
I'm not at home to take a picture but this one looks like this one I found in a German shop. CD-ROM... I think I'm getting old. :har:
https://images.booklooker.de/x/02yGrO/Silent-Hunter-U-Boot-Simulation-Feindfahrt-Kapit%C3%A4n-U-Boat-2-Weltkrieg-Kampagne.jpg
Shadowblade
03-10-25, 05:43 AM
I'm not at home to take a picture but this one looks like this one I found in a German shop. CD-ROM... I think I'm getting old. :har:
https://images.booklooker.de/x/02yGrO/Silent-Hunter-U-Boot-Simulation-Feindfahrt-Kapit%C3%A4n-U-Boat-2-Weltkrieg-Kampagne.jpg
did you play it too? Or just for collection? :)
did you play it too? Or just for collection? :)
I played it, but that was quite a long time ago. I have played all Silent Hunter games except Silent Hunter 4 and Silent Hunter Online. And I am still playing Silent Hunter 3 and 5.
I bought the Green Paper version because the original CD, when the game was still in a normal CD case and not a DVD case, was no longer playable. I think it had scratches, if I remember correctly.
I might still have the case and CD in the basement. But I'm not entirely sure.
This is what the original looked like:
https://i.postimg.cc/prgGcbyZ/images1.jpg
Shadowblade
03-10-25, 06:19 AM
nice, I played very old games too but I got into subsims later (SH3).
I played Mechwarrior simulators instead.
Mork_417
03-11-25, 09:00 PM
Back in the day, you went to the computer store in the strip mall and browsed the boxes of video games on the shelves. Sometimes, you'd be looking for a certain game that you'd read about in a magazine. The boxes were about the size of an average book. Sometimes, they contained several 5 & 1/4" or 3 1/2" floppy disks and a manual. Then everything moved to CDs.
In the days of floppy disks and even in the early days of CDs, you'd have to switch discs in the middle of the game to continue. Sometimes switching back and forth between discs. Ahhh ... fun times!
Yep! For me it was a Sears store, and I was always looking for something I read about in a magazine. I still have some Apple II games (5&1/4 diskettes) around here in their original boxes somewhere. When I joined this forum, my original username was "FloppyRat" because I had hundreds of those damn things. :haha:
Hooston
03-12-25, 02:45 AM
I used to play a very early alpha of the game on Hunstanton Pier in about 1970. I remember it was hideously expensive (maybe a shilling?) and initially I had to stand on a box or be held up by my dad to reach the periscope.
There was a deactivated mine on the sea front used to collect for the RNLI and there were constant sonic booms from the air combat range over the Wash. I was always afraid the booms were the mine going off.
The game is still available today. And still hideously expensive.
https://www.gamesroomcompany.com/products/1946-bally-undersea-raider
Anvar1061
03-12-25, 03:14 AM
I used to play a very early alpha of the game on Hunstanton Pier in about 1970. I remember it was hideously expensive (maybe a shilling?) and initially I had to stand on a box or be held up by my dad to reach the periscope.
There was a deactivated mine on the sea front used to collect for the RNLI and there were constant sonic booms from the air combat range over the Wash. I was always afraid the booms were the mine going off.
The game is still available today. And still hideously expensive.
https://www.gamesroomcompany.com/products/1946-bally-undersea-raider
https://static.tildacdn.com/tild3266-3363-4438-a465-663533613638/ee.svg
https://15kop.ru/morskoyboy
Aktungbby
03-12-25, 11:44 AM
The game is still available today. And still hideously expensive.
/\ that shines!:Kaleun_Salute: When not driving my Freightliner in '76,'77 & '78 of the previous century throughout the lower 48 and Canada, I sat out blizzards and inclement weather in arcade-equipped truckstops half a century ago??!!; and became particularly fond of this gem: the 1976 Midway Sea Wolf https://www.vintagearcade.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sea_wolf_arcade_game.jpg 0n sale: $4,995.00:Kaleun_Salivating: I put a lot of quarters into this gizmo and became exceedingly proficient W/0 any TDC. One quote from a U-boat biography I read: A kaleun to his subordinate: "TDC what TDC! Just aim the damn boat!"... is how I play most of the SH games to this day; ie: Get within 1000 yards; zero the 'scope, lead the target, and let fly the 'eel'...and I seldom miss!!?:Kaleun_Los::arrgh!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Wolf_(video_game)
I bought mine from BEST BUY in 2007. It came in a book sized box as discribed above. 1 StarForce DVD, and without the v1.4 patch.
My first sub sims were Silent Steel (not really a sim) and Sub Command. I got hooked on WWII sub sims with Silent Hunter II and Destroyer Command in 2002. I used to set up a home LAN so I could play head to head with a friend (dial-up internet wasn't so great in those days).
I bought SH3 on the day it released in March 2005 for $39.99 and have played it ever since. I tried SH4 (including the Uboot missions), SH5, and Uboat, but I keep coming back to SH3 for the best immersion. I can hardly believe that's been twenty years! So yes, I have earned the title "old man".
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/attachment.php?attachmentid=6152&d=1742916335
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/attachment.php?attachmentid=6153&d=1742916401
Shadowblade
03-25-25, 11:03 AM
@klh - cool, it would be nice to have SH3 map on the wall. Sadly my SH3 edition has just translated manual.
Raf1394
03-25-25, 04:06 PM
Great to see all these subsim retro pictures, back in the old days.
What I really miss about buying games in the before time (the long, long ago) is the "extras" they used to come with. Sometimes it was a physical map of the game world. Sometimes it was a cool poster. A lot of games even came with a keyboard overlay, which instantly transformed your keyboard into a custom game controller. Those were the days!
this game was made before i was born!
i do wonder, how did you guys buy it before it came to steam and things, and how much did it cost back then?
MUTHERF-- lol :haha:
Well, you succeeded! :up:
I first bought it on DVD in 2005, for about £25 (or $30) roughly. kind of on a whim, I loved the idea of WW2 related combat sims but i was usually horrible at them.
More often than not because it was mostly flight sims and I would always crash, I figured I cant crash a submarine, I got home, installed, fired up the naval accademy and promptly beached my Uboat.
Shadowblade
03-28-25, 04:39 AM
What I really miss about buying games in the before time (the long, long ago) is the "extras" they used to come with. Sometimes it was a physical map of the game world. Sometimes it was a cool poster. A lot of games even came with a keyboard overlay, which instantly transformed your keyboard into a custom game controller. Those were the days!
yeah, physical map of the game world which you can put on the wall was nice bonus. Nice detailed game manuals etc.
Today we have collectors editions with nice statues, but they often get sold out very fast.
Its pretty funny observing difference in gamer generations over the last couple of decades, to sterotype:
The younger kids nomalised in to digital downloads, bankrupting them selves or mom and dad by paying for their game in many parts, with season passes, endless DLCs, scammy in game currencies and dodgy loot boxes, gotta pay $5 for that 'sigma hat' for my character etc.
Then at the other end of the scale you 200 year old gamer grand dad resisting all that. Demanding a proper box, physical media, a full printed manual like its 1991- hell sometimes he practically just wants the whole game printed out on paper goddamn it - and the text better be bigger than the side effects list on his colesterol pills!
:D
Rrannett
04-20-25, 01:21 PM
Bought SH3 for $39.99 (on sale) in 2005! Already had SH1 and SH2! Just another move up!!? Have enjoyed ever since! Bless all you fellow old-timers and youngsters that were involved from the early days, and modded the game into what it is today! Well worth it.:Kaleun_Salute:
Kal_Maximus_U669
04-20-25, 02:26 PM
hey everyone..:salute:
Here it is, taken out of the closet for the occasion... it was my very first PC game at that time... I had just bought my first PC... lol +20 years already:O:
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/16/7/1745176908-capture-d-cran-2025-04-20-212118.jpg
ARICEPT stay alive longer..president Trump & Team should follow this treatment recommended by the Doc Aktungbby..:haha::timeout::har:
Dogzero1
04-21-25, 07:51 AM
I still have the original big box version. Along with big box versions of all the old sims. Including flight sims etc. :subsim:
Raf1394
04-21-25, 07:55 AM
hey everyone..:salute:
Here it is, taken out of the closet for the occasion... it was my very first PC game at that time... I had just bought my first PC... lol +20 years already:O:
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/16/7/1745176908-capture-d-cran-2025-04-20-212118.jpg
ARICEPT stay alive longer..president Trump & Team should follow this treatment recommended by the Doc Aktungbby..:haha::timeout::har:
Awesome haha. Those kits are nice. Wouldn't be suprised if you got an Attack Disk with the pack :har:
blackswan40
04-21-25, 08:48 AM
Yes mate similar for me too it was way back in 1992 I had an Amiga but the PC was becoming a gaming machine.
I poped into the virgin music store in Leeds and went downstairs to the games section there was a Microspose game called Taskforce 1942 the story of the Guadal Canal Campaign landing suplies on the island and stopping the other side doing the same intense naval battles with upto sixteen ships per side battleships heavy cruisers light cruisers destroyer this was the game that made me buy a PC happy days indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWo39zKMavE
Aktungbby
04-21-25, 10:10 AM
I poped into the virgin
:hmmm:...poping into virgins is quite a game in its own right! Too bad 'I'm feeling very old':oops::arrgh!:
Shadowblade
04-21-25, 10:43 AM
hey everyone..:salute:
Here it is, taken out of the closet for the occasion... it was my very first PC game at that time... I had just bought my first PC... lol +20 years already:O:
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/16/7/1745176908-capture-d-cran-2025-04-20-212118.jpg
ARICEPT stay alive longer..president Trump & Team should follow this treatment recommended by the Doc Aktungbby..:haha::timeout::har:
nice bonuses. What is the size of map pls?
Kal_Maximus_U669
04-21-25, 01:37 PM
nice bonuses. What is the size of map pls?
Hey Shadowblade..:salute:
- format is: 38.5 x 32.00 cm :salute:
Kal_Maximus_U669
04-21-25, 01:52 PM
Hey boy"s..:salute:
Awesome haha. Those kits are nice. Wouldn't be suprised if you got an Attack Disk with the pack
For You my friend
https://www.mediafire.com/file/qr9xssh7qjnzz0x/Disque_RaoBf_construc.zip/file
Since we're in retrospect...here's another one...
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/17/1/1745260784-capture-d-cran-2025-04-21-193632.jpg
I present to you Kaleun "Maximus" Purebred.. alley cat.. found baby at the age of 2 months in the garbage he died of starvation.. it's incredible that people don't pay attention to what surrounds them.. especially for a purebred animal.. almost 9 years old in July..
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/17/1/1745261181-capture-d-cran-2025-04-21-193546.jpg
My d"job
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/17/1/1745261285-photo0163.jpg
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/17/1/1745261290-photo0158.jpg
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/17/1/1745261294-photo0164.jpg
My last BMX is already 30 years old, if my old "body" was still in good condition, I would still ride it...lol
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2025/17/1/1745261495-photo0206.jpg
Shadowblade
04-21-25, 02:45 PM
@Kal_Maximus_U669 - thanks for info :up:
Awesome haha. Those kits are nice. Wouldn't be suprised if you got an Attack Disk with the pack :har:
I did not, so I made one.
Aktungbby
04-23-25, 10:23 AM
Dogzero1!:Kaleun_Salute:...after a 4 year 'silent run'!:up:
Anvar1061
04-24-25, 12:50 AM
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