Microprose's "Silent Service"

BROJD · 08-19-07, 11:55 AM

Does anyone else remember playing Microprose's "Silent Service?" I played it on my Commodore 64 using a joystick.

Now that was a submarine simulation.

Sailor Steve · 08-19-07, 12:17 PM

:rotfl:

No offense meant by laughing, but the answer is an unqualified "yes" for a lot of us:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ghlight=subsim

madmike81 · 08-19-07, 12:28 PM

Yeah i still remember the music...hehe.

dmlavan · 08-19-07, 12:42 PM

I'm pretty sure that was my first sub sim... enemy ships were black rectangles with a white square for a superstructure. Had lots of fun, but we've come a long way since!

Iron Budokan · 08-19-07, 12:45 PM

Microprose Silent Service II was my very first sub sim...I still have the package and the disks and everything!

i_b_spectre · 08-19-07, 01:37 PM

Microprose had some amazing games for the old C64, alright. Among them, Silent Service and Red Storm Rising. Granted, two vastly different sub sims, but reflecting on Red Storm makes me think a Cold War "what if?" could be intriguing. Just because we were fortunate that hostilities never erupted between modern sub forces doesn't mean the sim would be boring, especially when you consider the technology that would be brought to bear. We never got into a hot air-to-air confrontation with the Soviet Union either, but it's surely been the basis for numerous successful air combat sims over the years.

Dowly · 08-19-07, 01:42 PM

Yeh, had it on C64. press T to launch a torpedo, G for deckgun.

CCIP · 08-19-07, 01:54 PM

I had it on the Atari. Fond memories of that as it was the only game I ever played together with my dad, and play it we did! (I was always the XO)

No doubt it's the reason I'm here and into subsims today

BROJD · 08-19-07, 02:28 PM

Yep, I loved Red Storm rising too. It's amazing that you could evade those homing torpedoes just by ordering an emergency turn...

madmike81 · 08-19-07, 02:45 PM

http://artofwar.free.fr/jeux/nes/silent_service_nes.php

Its in French but it has some nice screenies for those "nostalgic" types

Heibges · 08-19-07, 03:35 PM

I drove my roommate in college absolutely bonkers with the "tick tick tick tick tick" the engine would make on high time compression.

GoldenRivet · 08-19-07, 04:06 PM

i remember silent service on the NES

08-19-07, 05:41 PM

Yes, I played it. It was my first sub sim game and it's why I'm still playing them. We've come a long way since.

Shelton · 08-20-07, 05:40 AM

that was a fantastic game!!

Captain Nemo · 08-20-07, 06:35 AM

Yep, Silent Service was my first subsim on the C64. I got Silent Service II for the Amiga and PC but was rather disappointed that land masses were not modelled in the second version of the game. If I remember correctly, in the second version you had to identify a ship from the manual to load the game, which was the basic anti-piracy protection that the game came with. Both versions are in my loft somewhere gathering loads of dust.

Nemo

08-19-07, 11:55 AM	#1
BROJD A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 77 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Microprose's "Silent Service" Does anyone else remember playing Microprose's "Silent Service?" I played it on my Commodore 64 using a joystick. Now that was a submarine simulation.

08-19-07, 12:17 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	:rotfl: No offense meant by laughing, but the answer is an unqualified "yes" for a lot of us: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ghlight=subsim __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

08-19-07, 12:45 PM	#5
Iron Budokan Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,778 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Microprose Silent Service II was my very first sub sim...I still have the package and the disks and everything! __________________ "You will take on England wherever you find her ships, and you will break her power at sea." --Iron Coffins, Herbert A. Werner http://kennethmarkhoover.com

08-19-07, 01:54 PM	#8
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I had it on the Atari. Fond memories of that as it was the only game I ever played together with my dad, and play it we did! (I was always the XO) No doubt it's the reason I'm here and into subsims today __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

08-19-07, 02:45 PM	#10
madmike81 Sparky Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Johnson City TN Posts: 155 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	http://artofwar.free.fr/jeux/nes/silent_service_nes.php Its in French but it has some nice screenies for those "nostalgic" types __________________ "We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."

08-19-07, 12:28 PM	#3
madmike81 Sparky Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Johnson City TN Posts: 155 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yeah i still remember the music...hehe.

08-19-07, 12:42 PM	#4
dmlavan Weps Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 351 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	I'm pretty sure that was my first sub sim... enemy ships were black rectangles with a white square for a superstructure. Had lots of fun, but we've come a long way since!

08-19-07, 01:37 PM	#6
i_b_spectre Engineer Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 205 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Microprose had some amazing games for the old C64, alright. Among them, Silent Service and Red Storm Rising. Granted, two vastly different sub sims, but reflecting on Red Storm makes me think a Cold War "what if?" could be intriguing. Just because we were fortunate that hostilities never erupted between modern sub forces doesn't mean the sim would be boring, especially when you consider the technology that would be brought to bear. We never got into a hot air-to-air confrontation with the Soviet Union either, but it's surely been the basis for numerous successful air combat sims over the years.

08-19-07, 01:42 PM	#7
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Yeh, had it on C64. press T to launch a torpedo, G for deckgun.

08-19-07, 02:28 PM	#9
BROJD A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 77 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Yep, I loved Red Storm rising too. It's amazing that you could evade those homing torpedoes just by ordering an emergency turn...

08-19-07, 03:35 PM	#11
Heibges Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 1,633 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I drove my roommate in college absolutely bonkers with the "tick tick tick tick tick" the engine would make on high time compression. __________________ U.Kdt.Hdb B. I. 28) This possibility of using the hydrophone to help in detecting surface ships should, however, be restricted to those cases where the submarine is unavoidably compelled to stay below the surface. http://www.hackworth.com/

08-19-07, 04:06 PM	#12
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	i remember silent service on the NES __________________

08-19-07, 05:41 PM	#13
von Zelda Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Yes, I played it. It was my first sub sim game and it's why I'm still playing them. We've come a long way since.

08-20-07, 05:40 AM	#14
Shelton Planesman Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 195 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	that was a fantastic game!!

08-20-07, 06:35 AM	#15
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Yep, Silent Service was my first subsim on the C64. I got Silent Service II for the Amiga and PC but was rather disappointed that land masses were not modelled in the second version of the game. If I remember correctly, in the second version you had to identify a ship from the manual to load the game, which was the basic anti-piracy protection that the game came with. Both versions are in my loft somewhere gathering loads of dust. Nemo __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________