First since RSR

Freddie_123 · 01-16-07, 08:44 PM

Wow -

What can I say?? It's probably been 20 years since my very first PC game - Red Storm Rising - a sub simulation. I guess it makes me feel old to know how many years have past - and how much MONEY I've spent on computer games. Microprose published (wrote?) RSR - then went on to create some of my other all-time favorites - F19, Gunship, and the tank game (?) Tank Platoon. Jesus guys - if I could tell you the facination of F19 and the hours spent taking out SAM sites over perfectly trianular mountains!!!

And back to Sub sims - RSR. What a great game - the silly cutscenes, the "text only" interface! Oddly enough - not much has changed from the map view that is in Silent Hunter 3. Gridlines and torpedo icons! I remember the "knuckle" icon that you'd use as a decoy in the water - was a "S." The tomahawk missle launches. I "PWND" that game...

Guess grandpa needs to give it up - Silent Hunter is much more intense than that! Anybody else play RSR???

- Freddie
* He who has spent thousands since RSR....

01-16-07, 08:44 PM	#1
Freddie_123 Nub Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	First since RSR Wow - What can I say?? It's probably been 20 years since my very first PC game - Red Storm Rising - a sub simulation. I guess it makes me feel old to know how many years have past - and how much MONEY I've spent on computer games. Microprose published (wrote?) RSR - then went on to create some of my other all-time favorites - F19, Gunship, and the tank game (?) Tank Platoon. Jesus guys - if I could tell you the facination of F19 and the hours spent taking out SAM sites over perfectly trianular mountains!!! And back to Sub sims - RSR. What a great game - the silly cutscenes, the "text only" interface! Oddly enough - not much has changed from the map view that is in Silent Hunter 3. Gridlines and torpedo icons! I remember the "knuckle" icon that you'd use as a decoy in the water - was a "S." The tomahawk missle launches. I "PWND" that game... Guess grandpa needs to give it up - Silent Hunter is much more intense than that! Anybody else play RSR??? - Freddie * He who has spent thousands since RSR....