With SH4 coming, what was the first subsim you played? - Page 3

Schultzy · 03-17-07, 08:15 PM

@Captain Jack. Thanks for the pic mate. The box of SSII brings back some memories. Ah...microprose and their manuals.

03-17-07, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaffer4

Wolfpack was my first.

Same here.

I liked how you could go from sub to sub and the graphics were
not bad for its time.

Mylander · 03-17-07, 08:23 PM

Silent Service II in '90, unless you count Avalon Hill's Submarine! in '79.

Mylander

Snakeeyes · 03-17-07, 08:24 PM

1984, My older buddy Andrew's house... Commodore 64 part of the Fleet Commodore game. I loved the idea of the periscope but I sure as hell didn't get all the math involved.

1987 Red Storm Rising on the Tandy 1000 EX computer. We were the talk of the neighborhood back then seeing how we had a 2400 baud modem and a FULL 640K. Wow. We were the ****. I continued to play it all the way through college on airplanes on my laptop. I had to explain to people sitting next to me torpedo and decoy sound effects.

688 attack sub 1988 Christmas in my stocking from good ol' Dad.

Hunt for Red October (it blew). 1988 bargain bin.

Seawolf 1990 - Cool sonar display!!

Rediscovered my love of subs around 1995 with Janes 688I

Sub Command - 2002 (late I know)

Dangerous Waters

SHIII

SHIV 2007

Antrodemus · 03-17-07, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Jack

I still have all of mine. The first one was Silent Service II in 1991.

Here they are from left to right...along with my "Chief of the Boat"...

rofl...

Chiefy looks like he's been waitin' for walkies since SSII got released. :rotfl:

irish1958 · 03-17-07, 08:56 PM

Silent Hunter 1
wolfpack
dasboote
all about the same time

robbierob2005 · 03-17-07, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Jack

I still have all of mine. The first one was Silent Service II in 1991.

Here they are from left to right...along with my "Chief of the Boat"...

Nice pic! It seems you have them all.

Ark · 03-17-07, 09:12 PM

DOH! I said Red Storm Rising earlier.

I totally forgot about playing GATO. Wow...that was a long time ago.

AG124 · 03-17-07, 10:04 PM

I guess I came to the sub sims scene a little later than most of the others here.

The first one I ever played was the 1996 CD-ROM re-issue of AoD - that was in August of '97. (I was about 12 years old at the time). I remember how much I loved that game; my proudest moments though were when I sank my first ship in a campaign (it was a Light Merchant of about 2,300 GRT and my U-Boat was some sub class of Type II although I don't remember what class

) and when I sank the BB HMS Malaya in a convoy Southeast of Iceland (I think)

. She took four bow torpedoes and rolled on her port side- I watched through the periscope.

Haven't managed to sink a BB in a SHIII campaign yet though.

Also, the only other capital ships I ever saw in an AoD campaign were a Bogue class CVE (which I damaged before being sunk) and some CL (a Dido I think, although it may have been a Fiji or Southampton, the only other cruisers in AoD). Eventually though, I ugraded from Windows 95 to 98SE and couldn't figure out how to run the game on that OS.

But by that time, I had received two free copies of SHI as promotional items within a couple of packages of educational software...:hmm:

NefariousKoel · 03-17-07, 10:37 PM

Semi-OT:

Microprose was the sh*t back in the day.

kiwi_2005 · 03-18-07, 12:30 AM

In this order:
Fast Attack - modern sub sim quite good, the missions had a time limit of 2hrs if i can remeber right.
Aces of the Deep - Brilliant!
SH1, then SH2, then Sub Command then SH3 then Dangerous Waters and soon to be SHIV

Spray · 03-18-07, 12:33 AM

SH1 many many years ago.

03-18-07, 01:57 AM

Original Aces of the Deep on 3 1/4 floppy disk. Ahh, the good old days of staying up until 3am trying to lift my damaged and flooding U-boat off of the sea floor before I ran out of oxygen. True Das Boot moments.

flintlock · 03-18-07, 02:02 AM

Not too far back for me: SH3 is it. We have some true old salts here at subsim.

Tonnage_Ace · 03-18-07, 02:09 AM

Well it wasn't until I happened upon this:

http://goty.gamespy.com/2005/pc/index3.html

that I heard of the silent hunter franchise. First time I really played a simulation game actually. In fact I was never really interested in the navy until I played this game. Now I've read several books and seen some more old sub movies I never would have seen. I still don't know that much about the War in the Pacific as far as WWII is concerned but I will...

03-17-07, 08:23 PM	#33
Mylander Torpedoman Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New Bern, NC, USA Posts: 120 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Silent Service II in '90, unless you count Avalon Hill's Submarine! in '79. Mylander __________________ Periscope depth... Up Scope... Last edited by Mylander; 03-24-07 at 08:08 PM.

03-17-07, 08:24 PM	#34
Snakeeyes Captain Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: trailing 1400 yards behind an Oscar-II with my outer doors open Posts: 488 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	1984, My older buddy Andrew's house... Commodore 64 part of the Fleet Commodore game. I loved the idea of the periscope but I sure as hell didn't get all the math involved. 1987 Red Storm Rising on the Tandy 1000 EX computer. We were the talk of the neighborhood back then seeing how we had a 2400 baud modem and a FULL 640K. Wow. We were the ****. I continued to play it all the way through college on airplanes on my laptop. I had to explain to people sitting next to me torpedo and decoy sound effects. 688 attack sub 1988 Christmas in my stocking from good ol' Dad. Hunt for Red October (it blew). 1988 bargain bin. Seawolf 1990 - Cool sonar display!! Rediscovered my love of subs around 1995 with Janes 688I Sub Command - 2002 (late I know) Dangerous Waters SHIII SHIV 2007 __________________ -- "There's little room in Tupolev's heart for anyone but Tupolev."

03-17-07, 08:56 PM	#36
irish1958 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 3,250 Downloads: 320 Uploads: 11	Silent Hunter 1 wolfpack dasboote all about the same time __________________ Irish1958

03-17-07, 09:12 PM	#38
Ark Samurai Navy Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Fresno, CA. Posts: 581 Downloads: 95 Uploads: 0	DOH! I said Red Storm Rising earlier. I totally forgot about playing GATO. Wow...that was a long time ago. __________________ Ark -------------- Vista 64-bit SP1 Asus P6T Deluxe mobo Core i7 920 @ 3.8ghz 6GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 Evga GTX 285 SSC SB X-FI Fatality 640GB WD "Black" Dell 3007WFP-HC 30" LCD / Acer 23" H233H

03-17-07, 10:04 PM	#39
AG124 Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,878 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	First SubSim I guess I came to the sub sims scene a little later than most of the others here. The first one I ever played was the 1996 CD-ROM re-issue of AoD - that was in August of '97. (I was about 12 years old at the time). I remember how much I loved that game; my proudest moments though were when I sank my first ship in a campaign (it was a Light Merchant of about 2,300 GRT and my U-Boat was some sub class of Type II although I don't remember what class ) and when I sank the BB HMS Malaya in a convoy Southeast of Iceland (I think) . She took four bow torpedoes and rolled on her port side- I watched through the periscope. Haven't managed to sink a BB in a SHIII campaign yet though. Also, the only other capital ships I ever saw in an AoD campaign were a Bogue class CVE (which I damaged before being sunk) and some CL (a Dido I think, although it may have been a Fiji or Southampton, the only other cruisers in AoD). Eventually though, I ugraded from Windows 95 to 98SE and couldn't figure out how to run the game on that OS. But by that time, I had received two free copies of SHI as promotional items within a couple of packages of educational software...:hmm: __________________ DOWNLOAD GWX HERE: http://www.thegreywolves.com/index.html

03-17-07, 10:37 PM	#40
NefariousKoel Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 1,223 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Semi-OT: Microprose was the sh*t back in the day. __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey

03-18-07, 12:30 AM	#41
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	In this order: Fast Attack - modern sub sim quite good, the missions had a time limit of 2hrs if i can remeber right. Aces of the Deep - Brilliant! SH1, then SH2, then Sub Command then SH3 then Dangerous Waters and soon to be SHIV __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

03-18-07, 12:33 AM	#42
Spray Planesman Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 182 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	SH1 many many years ago.

03-18-07, 01:57 AM	#43
nvdrifter Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Original Aces of the Deep on 3 1/4 floppy disk. Ahh, the good old days of staying up until 3am trying to lift my damaged and flooding U-boat off of the sea floor before I ran out of oxygen. True Das Boot moments.

03-18-07, 02:02 AM	#44
flintlock Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,177 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Not too far back for me: SH3 is it. We have some true old salts here at subsim.

03-18-07, 02:09 AM	#45
Tonnage_Ace XO Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Vancouver Posts: 411 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Well it wasn't until I happened upon this: http://goty.gamespy.com/2005/pc/index3.html that I heard of the silent hunter franchise. First time I really played a simulation game actually. In fact I was never really interested in the navy until I played this game. Now I've read several books and seen some more old sub movies I never would have seen. I still don't know that much about the War in the Pacific as far as WWII is concerned but I will...

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