I started with AOD way back when, and upgraded to CAOD when it came out. I still played it fairly often using DOSBox up until 2012 when I could finally use Bootcamp (Mac user...don't judge) to run SH3. Been playing GWX & NYGM regularly since then, though I still miss the sunset/sunrise info from AOD.

I've been known to fire up AOD on occasions when I'm feeling particularly sentimental.

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I feel I do not belong here. 2008 I bought SH IV because it was almost free in a local game store. It took me a couple of months to remember that I actually had it. After installing just to check it out (with the intention of uninstalling next day and to donate it) I got fascinated when I saw a Balao Class surfacing. Then going down. Then maneuvering the sub. When I switched to the Bridge view I got hooked. I found subsim and today I own SH1-5, all Sonalyst's sub games. Silent Service 1-2 (gog.com).
These sub games expanded (I would rather say replaced) my hobbies into:
-sailing
-celestial navigation
-piloting
-coastal navigation
-closest point of approach
-radar navigation
-Enigma/Ultra machines history and software simulation
-thinking of starting to build plastic models (subs, CVs,DDs)
I have bought at least 50 books on sub warfare including an original copy from Roscoe on US WWII (rare?), Uboat warfare, etc.


I am wondering if a woman will ever think I am normal :-p
What happened to the regular guys who used to go bowling and drink?? :)

It was Silent Service II for me. I too thought the graphics were mind blowing.
The one thing about that game that always sent me into a panic was when you used time compression and when the game threw you back to normal time there were destroyers 300 yards away and coming at 30 knots.:dead:

Well, the graphics on the box, anyway.



Never quite found out which version the periscope shot came from.

Silent Hunter 3 is my first and still to this day my only subsim.
Now that I think about it, I think my only other "sub" game I have ever played was Aquanox.

Nice video tho, never knew about most of these sims.

Same for me, and i don't know Aquanox ... I saw videos about the other sub simulations, and i just dislike all of them ! :down:

I think it has something to do with Das Boot! One of my all time favorite U-Boot movies.

I can't watch this film without wanting to play SH3. I want to be on U-96. I want to yell at Johann to get back to his station! I want to watch my number 1 properly cutting his food in his pristine uniform! I want to see my Funker making a "U-Boat cocktail" and cringe at him drinking it! But what I really want is to attempt passage into Gibraltar! I'm gonna do that now!!!

SH3, to me, is the only way to somewhat replicate the feel of attacking a convoy and then attempting to run away from destroyers.

As always, I thank all the folks at Subsim.com and those that have shared great mods to make a great game even better!

I laugh at the idea that one day I will be very old playing this game, and my grand kids will as why I play such an "old" game. Nevertheless, I will be here playing it!

My first PC Computer game was Epyx's Sub Battle Simulator:

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This game was IBM PC Compatible with a whooping 4 color CGA capability!! Man-o-Man....a reason to upgrade from my Monochrome monitor!! Still have this 5'' floppy disked game on my library shelf.

'course, my first reason to love sub games was the Mattel Sonar Hunt game that I had when I was a kid:

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Loved the capability of using the little "Periscopes" at the corners of the game to watch your buddy run into a mine as he moved over my side of the board searching for subs!

Hours of fun when you're 10 years old.

688 Attack Sub on the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis if your in the US).....loved that game!

Win 95-Command Aces of the Deep. Loved that game-but the graphics are laughable now.:salute:

True, but the AI is still worlds ahead of anything that followed.

Wow, that's one I never saw before. Time to hit ebay. :Kaleun_Salivating:

You are so right Steve. When you called in a contact report and the other U boats would show up on the map and you could watch some of them that were close start to converge on the convoy-and-actually attack.

Now I sort of miss it.:Kaleun_Crying:

Regarding the Mattel Sonar Sub Hunt game.

It was probably the first time a kid learned to "trash talk" during game play! Using those periscopes, you could watch as your opponent traversed your side of the board. Letting out a "I wouldn't do that if I were you!!" was common place as he neared one of your mines. That was helpful when in another turn he was about to center up on one of your subs, making ready for a depth charge! He would usually think twice. :O:

The game used a couple of "D" batteries, that lighted the "Bug" when you received a hit on a sub. You got the ol'buzzer when you hit a mine.