How old were you when you started playing submarine sims?

[mapuc]

I can't be so old when I started to play submarine Sims

In our local store they had this sub-something-arcade, where you put a dime in the machine and you looked into a periscope and had to hit ships on the surface.

Got a little older and lost interest in it, until some years later where I got a machine called Phillips 7400(can't really remember the name it's like a play station)
there I got many games(cartridge) among these I had a submarine game.

played on that machine until it was time for my time in the military, had not so much interest playing for fun, when I was doing it for real in the military-sort of.

Many years later I saw a commercial for a game called Destroyer Command. I bought it and in the folder there was something about a game Silent Hunter II

So I bought that too.

Today I have Silent Hunter II, III, IV, V, Dangerous Water, Subcommand(somewhere) Fleet Command and Command. And of course Destroyer Command

Markus

[Dowly]

Silent Service on Commodore 64 (cassette of course ). I was probably around 6 or 7.

[Wolferz]

I'm too old to remember.
My first taste of sub simming was SH 3. Whenever that came out.

Welcome to the boat Tiddles.

Boy, if that nick don't have potential for a fatal fatfinger...

[Oberon]

About 6 or 7 I'd wager.

[VipertheSniper]

The first time I played a subsim I must've been 10 or so. Played a random misson in AOTD at a friends flat. My first subsim that I owned was SH1, next was AOTD, than SH2 and SH3. Haven't tried SH4 yet, graphics are marvelous and I guess with right mods gameplay is too, it's just that I dread setting it all up.

[Rockstar]

We didnt have home computers in 1974 which would have been around the time when I was twelve or so. But with a little imagination we made up a simulation we all played during the summer at the neighborhood swimming pool called "depth charge".

Something like 6 of us would line up on deck at the 12 foot deep end of the swimming pool, we were the depth charges. Then one kid, the submarine, would dive in to the bottom and as fast as he could try to swim over to the otherside along the wall we were standing over without being physically hit by the six or so depth charges jumping in feet first on top of him.

Everyone took turns being the sub and at 12 feet no serious injuries ever occurred. In fact, more often than not the subs made it through unscathed. Getting a hit was high times.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

We didnt have home computers in 1974 which would have been around the time when I was twelve or so. But with a little imagination we made up a simulation we all played during the summer at the neighborhood swimming pool called "depth charge".

I hate unrealistic sims. The only way to get a true depth charge splash is to do a cannonball off the diving board.

[swamprat69er]

I started about 7 years ago with SH4. That would make me 61 years old. A little late to the party, but better late than never.

[razark]

Played this on an IBM PCjr. So somewhere around 8 or so.

[U-15]

I started with SH1 in about 1998 or 9, when I was about 45 or 46.
Missed out SH2.
Can't remember when I found out about SH3, as I was heavily into Train sims at the time, but I have been playing it for over 5 years now.
Coming up to 62 soon, but have no intention of taking a desk job.

[fireftr18]

I was somewhere around 30. Whenever Silent Service 2 came out. My stepfather, Brother in Law, and I would really get into it and have little side competitions during family gatherings.