[moscowexile]

I started with SH2 in 2004. Bought it for 80 rubles (about £1.50) on the street in Moscow. I had already become interested in historically accurate wargames and naval warfare seems to be sadly neglected in this field, so I snapped it up. A few months after that, SH3 appeared. I bought that for 80 rubles as well and have been totally hooked ever since.

Then GWX appeared as an update on Game Shadow. Big problem: my 80 ruble Silent Hunters were clearly copies of SH3 1.0. It's often hard to find the genuine article here and even those which are sold as the real MacCoy are not. In the end, I managed to get the real thing then updated and modified it to GWX. Then last August, for the first time after many years, I went back to England for a fortnight, where, to my great surprise, I saw SH3 in a video games shop bargain bin in the Trafford Centre, Manchester: it was under a fiver (£5), namely £4.99.

From what I read on the web, so-called "adult" games are big money spinners now: I am talking about "Grand Auto Theft" and such like. Can't understand why. But as they say here: What's food to a Russian is poison to a German.