[AS]

Hi all,

I also started with Silent Service on my C-64 when I was about 12 or so years old. Since my English was somewhat non-existent I never really knew the meaning of all the stuff. So I guessed around and found that "Dud Torpedoes" sounds really cool, so I took them. I think I never actually sank anything but myself then, but it didn´t matter, because I only "played" playing like children do. I just loved the atmosphere and pretended to be in real sub when I was sitting in my darkened room.


When SH1 came out I was playing Aces of the Deep. I remember reading every magazine article on SH1 (I had no internet then) and I hesitated buying it, because I was a young student without any money... when I finally bought it I was impressed by the graphics and yet everything felt a bit too perfect, too polished, too sterile, so I went back to AoD.

I still remember reading and writing about SH2 (!) on this fine forum, how we were argueing, debating, hoping and schemeing as if SH2 would be the revelation we had always craved for... and then there were the problems and delays - the rest is history.

I didn´t play SH2 for long... probably no-one did, or did they?

SH3 took me to the Atlantic again, thanks to GWX it never grew old, although I must admit that after two years some of the thrill is simply gone...

and just in the nick of time comes SH4... so I´ll pack my things ready to pin up my pin ups in a different sub...

Ahoi to all the sailors out there!

Cheers, AS