How did you get into U-boats (everyone please post)

[Jager Kapitan]

I always loved researching WWII, then I learned my grandpa was in fact a radioman on destroyer, guarding the east coast from u-boats,, thought that was the only person in my family to ever be in the navy, but it turns out I'm a distant relative of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (by marriage through my great uncle) And thats about all the naval tradtion in my family. (my 2 greatx3 grandfathers were in the Civil war, we still have one of their resignation letters)

[HunterICX]

As an Kid I Always loved stuff about WW2,
had 100 - 200 of those small plastic soldiers...you know...those Green - American, Grey - Axis and yellow - Brits


and when I had an Computer I played
Panzer General the Classic one
and a whole lotta more WW2 games
and after a while U-Boats start to blow my mind about how the germans did it in WW2.

Also my Grandpa, was an part of an dutch resistance...Sabotaging small things on the Airport of Gilze-Rijen . he almost got fusilized for that Geezzz...Grandpa...
well

here I am sinking stuff

[Zero Niner]

I started off with MPS's Silent Service for the Apple ][, then Silent Service II & II when they were released.

But it was the first Silent Service that got me hooked.

Then it was (iirc) Aces of the Deep and the original Silent HUnter + add-ons.

Jane's Attack sub was cool, but lack of replayability doomed it to a short life on my hard drive.

Looking forward to SH IV - somehow patrolling a US boat in the Pacific is what still interests me.

[Mooncatt]

i got into u-boats from a game on the c-64 "silent service" wicked game

[ecm747x]

My facination with first, the WW2 Navy came from my grandfather who was on the USS Enterprise durring WW2. He was on her when she sailed into Pearl after the attack on Dec 7th.
I then kept looking for computer sim games and most were sub sim and fell in love with them...
I also had two cousins who were on Boomers durring the cold war. There stories facinated me, even though they said it was99% of the time borring, the other 1 percent more than made up for it

[Grrbob25]

i came across silent-hunter iii while looking at the website for Lock On Modern Air Combat (another ubisoft game) and i saw sh3 in related games so i checked it out and then i was like "omfg a uboat sim!" I wasnt around for most of the real old ones, Aces of the Deep came out when I was two after i found sh3, i learned as much as i could about it, and i had a copy the same day (got it from gamestop for 39.99, but this was when it was new) had truble running it on my win98 pc, but managed to smooth all things out........now waiting for winxp so i can play GW! well after i started playing sh3, and then it was uboot.net, and now I have the history of the Ubootwaffe memorized