Before there was Silent Hunter, there was....

[Ducimus]

Anyone else remember this game? :D
( You know your a geek if youve ever played this game with a protractor, compass, triangles, and a legal sized notepad. :roll: )

http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Silent_Service_NES_ScreenShot1.jpghttp://www.nes-site.com/hall_of_lame/pics/silent_service_01.gif
http://www.nes-site.com/hall_of_lame/pics/silent_service_02.gifhttp://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Silent_Service_NES_ScreenShot2.jpg


More screenshots here:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/silent-service/screenshots

[kiwi_2005]

:rock: :rock: :rock:

I remeber that game, but couldn't really get into it, Aces of the Deep got the ball rolling for me and a modern sub sim called Fast Attack.

Dos ruled back then :|\

[Der Teddy Bar]

Yes I got the submarine/u-boat bug on Silent Service II.

[Ducimus]

>>Aces of the Deep got the ball rolling for me


After Silent Service on the NES, AOD was a real treat. I played the absolute hell out of both games. Believe it or not, both me and a bud would have Friday/saturday night AOD bouts when i was stationed overseas. (Idea was to keep ourselves occuped so we woudlnt go downtown and "run the ville" and get into trouble, so i bought a PC with some TDY money i had saved up and ended up doing AOD "tourney's". ).

Yeah, Friday/Saturday nights, a 12 pack of beer, 1 PC, a few chairs, We'd take turns being the "captain", the others would watch and be "exec" trying to make second guesses on the varioous situations. Its amazing what you'll do when your bored :D

[Tonnage_Ace]

SH3 was the first for me...first sim I ever got into period actually. All I've got to say for that game is: pixalicious. Although I'm curious on how you actually played, did you watch ships move through the persicope with the stadimeter or was it mostly text based?

[STEED]

SH1 got me hooked on sub games :up:

[JonZ]

played Silent Service on C=64

memories :|\

[CWorth]

That was my very first submarine game that got me hooked..followed by Aces of the Deep.

That game was always fun to play.I still have that game here at home somewhere.

[vodkajello]

I played Silent Service and GATO!

Good games for the time.

Strangely enough I heard about Aces of the Deep but as far as I remember I never played.

I played 688 Attack Sub and Seawolf though. I had Grey Wolves but besides the graphics I don't remember it being very good.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

I played Silent Service and GATO!

Good games for the time.

Strangely enough I heard about Aces of the Deep but as far as I remember I never played.

I played 688 Attack Sub and Seawolf though. I had Grey Wolves but besides the graphics I don't remember it being very good.

Silent Hunter III is the first subsim for me... All WWI and WWII flight sims before.

@ Vodkajello... lol I hope you are referring to another GAME in reference to Grey Wolves...

[Ducimus]

@ Vodkajello... lol I hope you are referring to another GAME in reference to Grey Wolves...

Yup. I forgot all about this one:

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

[Torplexed]

Yes...there used to be a U-Boat sim named Grey Wolves. I remember seeing in the bargain bin but never picked it up.

My first subsim was the original Silent Hunter. Still very fond of it a decade later. The graphics in SH are certainly dated by modern standards but seemed much crisper to me than those I found in Aces of the Deep. Neither game gave you the sweeping 3-D exterior views you can have nowdays tho. Really got spoiled by those.

Back to the Pacific in a Gato...someday. :up:

http://zioxville.homestead.com/files/RTNPORT.jpg

[panthercules]

played Silent Service on C=64

memories :|\

Me too - man, those were the days. I especially loved the recognition manual:

Two blocks and 1 stick = destroyer
Three blocks and 2 sticks = merchant

Been hooked ever since :D

[SubSerpent]

My first sub sim was Silent Service 1 DOS, then II NES, then Red Storm Rising DOS, then 688 NES, then SSN-21 DOS, then AOD DOS, then AOD Commander windows 3.1, then Silent Steel DOS/windows 3.1, then Fast Attack, then Janes 688i WIndows 95, then Sub Commander Windows 95/98, then Dangerous Waters WinXP, then SHIII WinXP.


I think that's about it? They may not be in the correct order that I actually got them. It's been to long, but I do recall Silent Service I being first. Maybe it was Red Storm Rising. Too long ago and I am happy the way things are now graphically speaking although I do miss the feeling being young and playing games all weekend when I didn't have school. Now it kinda sucks to see MY paycheck and not my DADs going to purchase these expensive things. Oh Well, I will continue to shell out the money I suppose. Game ON! :rock:

[JonZ]

played Silent Service on C=64

memories :|\

Me too - man, those were the days. I especially loved the recognition manual:

Two blocks and 1 stick = destroyer
Three blocks and 2 sticks = merchant

Been hooked ever since :D

hell yea, ingame it doesn't work... all ship looked the same :lol:

It was one of the copy protection you have to find the manual if you *borrow* it.

Of course the copy protection have evolued since and is now known as StarForce :shifty:

[SubSerpent]

Here's a good article about Sid Meier's Silent Service game.



http://www.gamespot.com/features/sidlegacy/ss.html

[CWorth]

Anyone remember this game???

This was another Uboat game I played...

http://users.pandora.be/mpq/software/screenshots/wolfpack.gif

[Schiffmorder]

Well my VERY first sim was Flight Sim (way way before MS bought it)
which I played on a Sinclair Z80 with the 16K memory piggyback, loaded (taking about 15 minutes) via tape player and viewed on my 12 inch b/w tv. Have I sufficiently dated myself here? :)



For Naval sims it was Red Storm rising on C64, SSII, AOD (which I maintain 12 years later STILL has things to teach modern devs about sub simming!!), fooled around with 688i some, went totally back to flight sims until last fall when I got SH3, which I find with patch and mods to be a very nice game, faults not withstanding.

[SubSerpent]

Anyone remember this game???

This was another Uboat game I played...

http://users.pandora.be/mpq/software/screenshots/wolfpack.gif

Wolfpack. I forgot to mention that one also. Forgot about it!

Also there was another one called GreyWolf on Windows 3.1

[SubSerpent]

Here are some more of Wolf Pack for DOS.




http://www.subsim.com/ssr/wolfp1.gif


http://www.subsim.com/ssr/wolfpk1.jpg

[SubSerpent]

Here is GreyWolf for DOS/WIN


http://www.subsim.com/ssr/greybox.jpg

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/wolfpk3a.jpg

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/wolfpk4a.jpg

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/wolfpk6a.jpg

[Syxx_Killer]

I remember Silent Service very well! :rotfl: I still have it with the box and book all in good condition. I always thought that guy in the white sweater and jeans looked out of place. :-j I had Silent Service for NES the same time I had Command: Aces of the Deep. There was a point when I couldn't play CAOD because my computer at the time was a real piece of crap. CAOD was given to me before I actually had a computer that could handle it. I would play CAOD on a friend's computer. When I finally was able to play CAOD on my own computer that could handle it, it was a custom machine that kept freezing all the time. Eventually it went back and I had to put up with my crappy one again (Windows 3.1, 1MB RAM, floppy drives for both sizes, 8MHz (had a turbo button for 16MHz woohoo!! :roll: :lol: )). That was when I started playing Silent Service. I liked the game, but it just wasn't CAOD. When I got a computer that could finally play CAOD I was overjoyed. I didn't play Silent Service much after that. Another sim I played alot was 688I Attack Sub on Sega Genesis. That game was really cool, although I never really knew what I was doing. After that, the only other sub sims I have played was Jane's 688(i) Hunter/Killer, Sub Command, Dangerous Water, and of course Silent Hunter III. I remember trying the demo to Silent Hunter I, but never got the actual game. Came close, though. :88)

[gdogghenrikson]

Anyone else remember this game? :D
( You know your a geek if youve ever played this game with a protractor, compass, triangles, and a legal sized notepad. :roll: )

http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Silent_Service_NES_ScreenShot1.jpghttp://www.nes-site.com/hall_of_lame/pics/silent_service_01.gif
http://www.nes-site.com/hall_of_lame/pics/silent_service_02.gifhttp://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Silent_Service_NES_ScreenShot2.jpg


More screenshots here:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/silent-service/screenshots

COOL!!

I used to own that game. didnt understand it alot but still played it and thought it was fun

[JScones]

played Silent Service on C=64

memories :|\

:yep:

[CCIP]

Silent Service II on the Atari is certainly the reason I'm here.

It's almost strange how much I loved that game and actually got rather good at it, despite the fact that I was 9 years old and didn't know English - forget knowing anything about submarines! :lol:

But memories of it were so persistent that it only took a few good previews of SHIII for me to know that I would be hooked... and here I am a year after release, still as hopelessly addicted as I was to SSII - but a little smarter :up:

[darksythe]

Ahh silent service was also the one that started it all for me. I played it on the c64 and the nes. Racked up loads of tonnage, but considering i was still a pup at the time not much tactical work went into it. wish i still had the game would be a heck of a nostalgia trip.

[JScones]

played Silent Service on C=64

memories :|\

Me too - man, those were the days. I especially loved the recognition manual:

Two blocks and 1 stick = destroyer
Three blocks and 2 sticks = merchant

Been hooked ever since :D

hell yea, ingame it doesn't work... all ship looked the same :lol:

It was one of the copy protection you have to find the manual if you *borrow* it.

Of course the copy protection have evolued since and is now known as StarForce :shifty:
As a budding programmer at the time, the thing I liked most about it was that with a simple Ctrl-Break and LIST you had the whole code at your disposal. And it was in easy-to-read Basic, not machine code! Ahh, the days...

[MarshalLaw]

Silent hunter for me. The good old Dos days :roll:

[CptGrayWolf]

wish i still had the game would be a heck of a nostalgia trip.

darksythe Silent Service is easily found on the net and you can probably use Dosbox to run it.
Or even better, get an emulator of your favorite system and voila you're back in 1985!
I have an Atari 800xl emulator and sometimes load up a favorite game! :88)

[darksythe]

wish i still had the game would be a heck of a nostalgia trip.

darksythe Silent Service is easily found on the net and you can probably use Dosbox to run it.
Or even better, get an emulator of your favorite system and voila you're back in 1985!
I have an Atari 800xl emulator and sometimes load up a favorite game! :88)

Thats a good idea thanks :D \

[Sailor Steve]

I played Silent Service and SSII on an Atari 520ST. I still have the Atari AND Silent Service II (as well as BattleHawks 1942, Their Finest Hour and Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe; plus Oids and Wizball).

Silent Hunter changed everything, and I don't play those old games anymore, but still remember them fondly.