yeah i remember silent service very well, i spent hours on it and in a way miss it. sometimes it would load wrong and the torps would pass beneath the target everytime.

I miss Microprose :cry:

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I hear you. They were a great gaming company, weren't they? I always knew when I bought a Microprose game it would be fun to play...I was never disappointed in their product.

Cant say I've even heard of it until now. Maybe its just because im a bit young (I was growing up when the Sega Genesis was released), but still.

I do remember my first Subsim being Aces of the Deep though. Me and my friend played that for hours on 0% realism :rotfl:

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Played it for hours and hours....I remeber the Commodore 64 too.:rotfl: The one man Fleet Boat. Man graphics have changed so much.

I was happy that SSII had aircraft carriers you could attack; as I remember the first one had only merchant convoys.

My disappointment was with the shoaling: In 1 water would change depth, but in 2 if it dropped you into a scenario with 100 feet of water, thats what it stayed until you escaped, or died. At least that's my memory from the Atari version.

silent service also had carriers.i sunk one with deck gun.i havent seen kaibokans modeled in any game since.you could aslso turn at all stop in ss.unfortunatly there was no career option.but a great game.

Not quite a sim but older still

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Silent Service on C64 was my first subsim. Played it for hours. The second one was Red Storm Rising. I recall playing The Hunt for Red October too but it wasn't my favorite.

I remember Silent Service *very* well, moreso because as a young budding programmer, it was the first commercial product that I bought that "let me" view the source code. :arrgh!:

Game wise though, I vividly remember manoeuvring the white pixel to-and-fro across the map screen.

Actually, come to think of it, I *really* enjoyed it, like I did nearly all Microprose titles of the eighties (something about medals and ranks that I really enjoyed). I did hate the "what ship is this" copy protection though...

Hmmm, I might just fire up my C64 emulator and give Silent Service a burl. :up:

Now you see him...
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Now you don't...
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Woohoo!!
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I played it on Atari 65XE. I loaded this game about 20 minutes by tape recorder (I had no turbo installed on Atari).

AWESOME FIND

I remember playing this game on my Amstrad 6128 :D Ahhhhh....the good old days......dont think i had the aptitude to actually make my boat go anywhere but i thoroughly enjoyed the look of the commandroom and moving between the different stations :) Ahh.....the days of "Gunship", "Pirates" and "Rambo"......*sniff*




Have a nice day :)

Thanks for bringing back a good memory! Loved Silent Service on the C64, I'll have to dig it out, it's around here somewhere. I also liked Submarine, an Avalon Hill board game. Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Panzer Blitz and Luftwaffe too, all good Avalon Hill games.