Just out of curiosity, can I claim the "youngest u-boater" title?
 

I remember back in Late 04' when I first saw the add for sh3 in my pc gamer magazine, I was blown away. I presumed to pre-order the game and held on tight as my anxiety built. That was almost 5 years ago, believe it or not I was in the 5th grade at the time! I am currently a high school sophmore and have been enjoying the game ever since the 5th grade (it came out march 05'). Granted, I was not a very good commander at the time, but i did my best. I have only really started to play the game seriously over the previous 3 years (8th - 10th grade). So now, unless someone started in 4th grade, I claim the title of "youngest captain"! (which of course is meaningless, but it makes me feel proud for some reason :haha:)

lol, just a little story... :D

Sink em all...

U-48Kriegsmarine

Since you are 15, you beat me out by only a few months. I first saw it just a few months after release in a Walmart gaming aisle. I saw it, and I just had to have it. It took a couple years before I ever wanted to take the auto-targeting off, but now I can't play on anything less than 100% DiD.

Something tells me that you shan't have any competition.
That's cool.

Well, my first U-Boat sim was Silent Hunter II, which I picked up, when I was seventeen. My first sub sim, though, was the NES port of Silent Service, way back in 1989, when I was five. I can't quite recall if my first Gato came before my first bike, but I'm pretty sure I still have the SS cartridge, while that bike is long since gone.

Oh, wasted youth....

Daughter #1 made the jump from her DD in Iron Wolves to Silent Hunter 2....age 11.

Her younger sister never touched another uboat title when the Iron Wolves server had the plug pulled September 3 2001. She was aged 5.

I played with rubber duckies when I was 15 months old:haha:

My first serious subsim was AOD back in 95', i was only 7 YO :cool: i also started on 100% realism :o

even before i was playing aces of the pacific, and 688 attack sub on the sega genesis

Rubber duckies and toy U-boats aside, I enjoyed Silent Service quite a bit when I was 6. Glad to see I'm not the only one who started early :)

Silent Service on the NES when I was about seven :rock:

does this count ?
 

my wife says I'm 12 year old trapped in the body of a 53 year old . :haha:

WOW!!!! Age 7! Impressive, I guess I was 10 or 11, but 7? You must be some sort of sub-savant!

lol, good conversation starter!

:salute:

Good man - stay young, keep fightin' ! :salute:

HAHA I beat all of you, I got my first subsim when I was 4 or 5, for the super nintendo. Silent service 2... oah how long ago was that...

even tho I didnt know 100% what I was doin... lol

I remember a thing called "Silent Service". I was on leave at the time and recall from a faulty memory puts it about 1980??? maybe??? I was still an old codger then and had no chance of ever being young again but many personnel were very surprised to hear their CO had a computer at home! The memory kind of fails about then - could it possibly have been a tape for my Amstrad computer? Or even a floppy for my very first PC? I do remember it showed a guy walking/moving about in a central control room, and I do recall having so many difficulties with that sailor that I very soon threw in the towel and decided it was much easier to deal with real people rather than this bearded, obnoxious person.

Then came:

SILENT HUNTER >>>>>> ping! ping! ping!

SHII >>>> ping-a!... ping-a!....ping-a!.... followed by

SHIII >>> PING!...PING!...PING!...

"Now you may well laugh, but when your ASDIC hits a submarine, you will then hear: PING...A! ... PING...AA!... PING...AAA! - ... at the same time it may be a whale or a shoal of fish! ... "

[From the novel & film "The Cruel Sea", which I constantly re-read and keep watching again, knowing I will find a little something new each time I read it and see it, even if it's just to console dear old Lt. Cmdr. Ericson with a glass of gin after his catastrophic passage through the floating survivors. That scene always brings a tear to my eye.]

This is going to suprise you... I am currently 13 and have played since SH3 2005! I was 9 years old!

I still remember when I sank my first ship, the battleship Nelson in the Bismarck-mission.