Microprose's "Silent Service"
 

Does anyone else remember playing Microprose's "Silent Service?" I played it on my Commodore 64 using a joystick.

Now that was a submarine simulation. :up:

:rotfl:

No offense meant by laughing, but the answer is an unqualified "yes" for a lot of us:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ghlight=subsim

Yeah i still remember the music...hehe.

I'm pretty sure that was my first sub sim... enemy ships were black rectangles with a white square for a superstructure. Had lots of fun, but we've come a long way since!:arrgh!:

Microprose Silent Service II was my very first sub sim...I still have the package and the disks and everything! :yep:

Microprose had some amazing games for the old C64, alright. Among them, Silent Service and Red Storm Rising. Granted, two vastly different sub sims, but reflecting on Red Storm makes me think a Cold War "what if?" could be intriguing. Just because we were fortunate that hostilities never erupted between modern sub forces doesn't mean the sim would be boring, especially when you consider the technology that would be brought to bear. We never got into a hot air-to-air confrontation with the Soviet Union either, but it's surely been the basis for numerous successful air combat sims over the years.

Yeh, had it on C64. press T to launch a torpedo, G for deckgun. ;)

I had it on the Atari. Fond memories of that as it was the only game I ever played together with my dad, and play it we did! (I was always the XO)

No doubt it's the reason I'm here and into subsims today :D

Yep, I loved Red Storm rising too. It's amazing that you could evade those homing torpedoes just by ordering an emergency turn...

http://artofwar.free.fr/jeux/nes/silent_service_nes.php

Its in French but it has some nice screenies for those "nostalgic" types

I drove my roommate in college absolutely bonkers with the "tick tick tick tick tick" the engine would make on high time compression.

i remember silent service on the NES :nope:

Yes, I played it. It was my first sub sim game and it's why I'm still playing them. We've come a long way since.

that was a fantastic game!!

Yep, Silent Service was my first subsim on the C64. I got Silent Service II for the Amiga and PC but was rather disappointed that land masses were not modelled in the second version of the game. If I remember correctly, in the second version you had to identify a ship from the manual to load the game, which was the basic anti-piracy protection that the game came with. Both versions are in my loft somewhere gathering loads of dust.

Nemo