@Captain Jack. Thanks for the pic mate. The box of SSII brings back some memories. Ah...microprose and their manuals. :) <drifts away...>

Same here.:up: I liked how you could go from sub to sub and the graphics were
not bad for its time.

Silent Service II in '90, unless you count Avalon Hill's Submarine! in '79.

Mylander

1984, My older buddy Andrew's house... Commodore 64 part of the Fleet Commodore game. I loved the idea of the periscope but I sure as hell didn't get all the math involved.

1987 Red Storm Rising on the Tandy 1000 EX computer. We were the talk of the neighborhood back then seeing how we had a 2400 baud modem and a FULL 640K. Wow. We were the ****. I continued to play it all the way through college on airplanes on my laptop. I had to explain to people sitting next to me torpedo and decoy sound effects.

688 attack sub 1988 Christmas in my stocking from good ol' Dad.

Hunt for Red October (it blew). 1988 bargain bin.

Seawolf 1990 - Cool sonar display!!

Rediscovered my love of subs around 1995 with Janes 688I

Sub Command - 2002 (late I know)

Dangerous Waters

SHIII

SHIV 2007

rofl...

Chiefy looks like he's been waitin' for walkies since SSII got released. :rotfl:

Silent Hunter 1
wolfpack
dasboote
all about the same time

Nice pic! It seems you have them all. :D:D

DOH! I said Red Storm Rising earlier.

I totally forgot about playing GATO. Wow...that was a long time ago. :o

First SubSim
 

I guess I came to the sub sims scene a little later than most of the others here.:88) The first one I ever played was the 1996 CD-ROM re-issue of AoD - that was in August of '97. (I was about 12 years old at the time). I remember how much I loved that game; my proudest moments though were when I sank my first ship in a campaign (it was a Light Merchant of about 2,300 GRT and my U-Boat was some sub class of Type II although I don't remember what class :cry:) and when I sank the BB HMS Malaya in a convoy Southeast of Iceland (I think) :o. She took four bow torpedoes and rolled on her port side- I watched through the periscope.:smug: Haven't managed to sink a BB in a SHIII campaign yet though.:shifty: Also, the only other capital ships I ever saw in an AoD campaign were a Bogue class CVE (which I damaged before being sunk) and some CL (a Dido I think, although it may have been a Fiji or Southampton, the only other cruisers in AoD). Eventually though, I ugraded from Windows 95 to 98SE and couldn't figure out how to run the game on that OS.:cry: But by that time, I had received two free copies of SHI as promotional items within a couple of packages of educational software...:hmm:

Semi-OT:

Microprose was the sh*t back in the day. :rock:

In this order:
Fast Attack - modern sub sim quite good, the missions had a time limit of 2hrs if i can remeber right.
Aces of the Deep - Brilliant!
SH1, then SH2, then Sub Command then SH3 then Dangerous Waters and soon to be SHIV:rock: :rock:

:arrgh!:

SH1 many many years ago.

Original Aces of the Deep on 3 1/4 floppy disk. Ahh, the good old days of staying up until 3am trying to lift my damaged and flooding U-boat off of the sea floor before I ran out of oxygen. True Das Boot moments. :D

Not too far back for me: SH3 is it. We have some true old salts here at subsim. :up:

Well it wasn't until I happened upon this:

http://goty.gamespy.com/2005/pc/index3.html

that I heard of the silent hunter franchise. First time I really played a simulation game actually. In fact I was never really interested in the navy until I played this game. Now I've read several books and seen some more old sub movies I never would have seen. I still don't know that much about the War in the Pacific as far as WWII is concerned but I will...