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Old 04-19-09, 04:01 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by owner20071963 View Post
This Movie is Now considered 1 of the
Great Submarine Movies of all time...
Military History magazine's resident historians voted it the third best war movie of any kind, after All Quiet On The Western Front and Paths Of Glory.

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Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann
...'Aces of the Deep' game by Sierra Dynamix... (or at least SH was a logical evolution following Aces of the Deep) which may predate the movie Das Boot.
Das Boot: 1982
AOD: 1994

The nightclub graphic in Aces was obviously based on the movie. Even the great Silent Service came out a couple of years later. But I agree: Das Boot is more inspiration than direct progenitor of games like these.
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