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Sonarman · 08-25-09, 01:04 PM

I played the C64 Silent Service, I remember buying it in Glasgow on the day of it's release, at that time Microprose games in the UK were distributed by US Gold and were sold in plastic double cassette ,instead of a fantastic Microprose manual you got an A3 piece of paper folded to the size of the box with all of the relevant maps and keycodes etc.

The game took quite along time to load from cassette. Hard to believe that was in 1985, 24 years ago -ouch!!! Up Periscope! a very overlooked and highly underrated simulation came out just after Silent Service and was accompanied by not one but two manuals.

When I bought the first Silent Hunter game in 1997 it cost £50, Nowadays SH games typical RRP is about £30 and we moan about game prices today!

08-25-09, 01:04 PM	#5
Sonarman The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ayr,Scotland,UK Posts: 1,392 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	I played the C64 Silent Service, I remember buying it in Glasgow on the day of it's release, at that time Microprose games in the UK were distributed by US Gold and were sold in plastic double cassette ,instead of a fantastic Microprose manual you got an A3 piece of paper folded to the size of the box with all of the relevant maps and keycodes etc. The game took quite along time to load from cassette. Hard to believe that was in 1985, 24 years ago -ouch!!! Up Periscope! a very overlooked and highly underrated simulation came out just after Silent Service and was accompanied by not one but two manuals. When I bought the first Silent Hunter game in 1997 it cost £50, Nowadays SH games typical RRP is about £30 and we moan about game prices today! __________________ "The action is simulated...the excitement is real!" Microprose Simulation Software. Last edited by Sonarman; 08-25-09 at 02:31 PM.