Do you guys remember?

[Penelope_Grey]

688 Attack Sub on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis?

That was my first taste of submarine simulations.

[Mush Martin]

I loved 688 attack sub was a great game.
albeit quite dated now for that genre
sub command is a better one.
good mission builder.

[Bertgang]

I spent lot of time with it, but mine was a DOS version.

[Mush Martin]

My very first was Silent Service on 8 bit nintendo

Ive studied Pre atomic submersible warfare for two
decades now because of that experience.

MM

[GSpector]

Silent Service and Red Storm Rising (both on PC and Commodore 128) I think were my 2 1st sub Sims that really got he hooked.

I tried Gato but it just did not keep me interested.

I had switched to Flight Sims (not M$'s FS) for a while like F-19 (later F-117a) Stealth Fighter).

OT:
To: Penelope_Grey,
What happened to your prior Sig. I really liked it. And yes the lady in it looked great too.

[Mush Martin]

I wonder if theres any Panzer General types abouts.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by GSpector

Silent Service and Red Storm Rising (both on PC and Commodore 128) I think were my 2 1st sub Sims that really got he hooked.

I tried Gato but it just did not keep me interested.

I had switched to Flight Sims (not M$'s FS) for a while like F-19 (later F-117a) Stealth Fighter).

OT:
To: Penelope_Grey,
What happened to your prior Sig. I really liked it. And yes the lady in it looked great too.

I started with GATO, then SS and RSR. Those were all great games.

[Grayback]

My 688 was also the DOS version. I had fun with it until I realized how little replayability those canned missions were - the same missions, over and over. The only Alfa mission I really enjoyed was the convoy - getting the destroyers to shoot their own merchantmen when my Alfa was running was running low on torps, then discovering that lone 688 at the mission's end. (Uncovering that British SSN near the North Cape was also kind of cool - except that it always started and ended the same way, so you always knew where it would appear and which way it would go.) Still, 688 was initially challenging - after coming from Red Storm Rising, 688 was a rude shock - you couldn't locate torpedoes as easily nor evade them, and punching off noisemakers was a more labor intensive operation.

[DeepIron]

Just some personal trivia, I went to High School with John, one of the game authors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Ratcliff and used to hang out with his brother Tom in St Charles, MO....

Funny how time catches you up again and again...

[SteminDemon13]

Silent Service Rocked! My first sub sim. My ma had taken me to the video store to get it, but the lady sold it even after I told her I would be right back, I was so pissed and said some unkind words to the lady. Pop didn't like it when he heard about what I said, so I got a whoopin for it. But I guess good things come to those who wait because I got it that christmas. I still have the game after all these years.

[ChristopherT]

I've got 688 Attack sub, in my case it's the DOS version. Mine runs great under Win98 so I play it often. Overall the missions are canned, but I never seem to have a problem with replayability. There's always something different about each round. Some days I do make a better Soviet captain than a US captain, but that's part of the fun.

Christopher

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

688 Attack Sub on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis?

That was my first taste of submarine simulations.

That's the Janes 688I? I showed a guy that served on a nuke the manual. (he didn't play subsims) He thumbed through it and told me he couldn't talk about any of it.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

688 Attack Sub on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis?

That was my first taste of submarine simulations.

PG, what happened to your signature?