looking for Epyx Sub Battle SImulator

[Onkel Neal]

Cool. Are you collecting the classics?

[agathosdaimon]

that i am. although it seems you can just get all of them online easily now on the various sites and even play them in a browser, i really dont like that experience, it doesnt capture the nostalgia nor the immersion.

i like the old boxes and the manuals and even figuring out how to install them from the floppy disks.

I would like to find 3.5 inch floppy versions of Silent Service 1,Up Persicope and Gato but i dont think these exist, i think they were all only 5.25.

i get as much fun out of the classic ones as i do out of newer games like SH3/5 etc

Classic sub and class naval dos games are what i am greatly enjoying atm . i just got Action Stations recently, it is surprisingly easy to play despite all the detailed elements of it, it models some unique possibilities such as if someone at the controls gets hit by debris and slumps on the wheel and causes a ship to veer in an unexpected direction

so yeah, i think the old games are extremely fun and what they lack in graphics they make up for with depth of gameplay

[Onkel Neal]

I'm with you, I have most of the old games and the boxes+manuals, media, and I keep a Pentium 133 machine with DOS and Win95 to run them on. Sadly, all that is still packed away for a few more years.

[agathosdaimon]

thats a shame that it has to be packed away, is that due to space limitations - i guess the only drawback is that a big collection of boxes needs some space in order to display them all

[Grayback]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

I'm with you, I have most of the old games and the boxes+manuals, media, and I keep a Pentium 133 machine with DOS and Win95 to run them on. Sadly, all that is still packed away for a few more years.

Can totally relate - I remember getting my copy of Red Storm Rising - that big red box brimming with keyboard overlays, the foldout guide to Russian subs and, of course, a stack of 3.5" disks all needed to hold the files that will now fit on a microSD card the size of your fingernail. I remember unpacking that thing certain that I'd never learn to play the game.