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

[Snakeeyes]

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]

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]

Silent Hunter 1
wolfpack
dasboote
all about the same time

[robbierob2005]

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]

DOH! I said Red Storm Rising earlier.

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

[AG124]

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]

Semi-OT:

Microprose was the sh*t back in the day.

[ijozic]

Originally Posted by Captain_Jack

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

Interesting how the boxes got smaller and smaller over time

(Sorry for quoting the image but it was relevant for the point)

My first one was Silent Service on Atari 520ST (I still have the computer somewhere and I believe it works). I remember reading a lot about Up Periscope! but never had it while I had C64.

I think I saw or tried most of the sub sims that followed. Silent Service II was pretty good, but Aces of the Deep was remarkable and so was the Silent Hunter! Played Seawolf a lot but it was arcadish in lots of ways. The only one I didn't saw/played were the Sierra's Fast Attack! and that Grey Wolf: Hunter of the North Atlantic. Now that the WWII sub sims are re-done, I wish Sonalyst would upgrade the graphics of their sub sims (and some other tweaks; e.g. like semi-dynamic campaign and randomizer for single missions).

[oche]

- Gato (the very first for the PC)
- 688 attack Sub
- Wolfpack (does this counts?)
- Silent Service II
- Das Boot (not bad, good simulation, it even had an enigma machine)
- Silent Hunter (My most memorable moments with a submarine simulation)
- Silent Hunter II (Lots of headaches)
and finally Silent Hunter III...

[Fat Bhoy Tim]

Originally Posted by oche

- Gato (the very first for the PC)
- 688 attack Sub
- Wolfpack (does this counts?)
- Silent Service II
- Das Boot (not bad, good simulation, it even had an enigma machine)
- Silent Hunter (My most memorable moments with a submarine simulation)
- Silent Hunter II (Lots of headaches)
and finally Silent Hunter III...

why wouldn't wolfpack count?

[oche]

Don't know...for me "Wolfpack" counts as a subsim, very good for it's day, one thing i really liked was that you could switch between your different subs in the wolfpack, but i'm sure that because of the DD/TRANSPORT/SUB interphase on the same game someone would say it's not fully a subsim but more like a "triple-action" game...

[Safe-Keeper]

The 688 demo. Never got the full game.

Then, many years later, I wanted to try something new and asked on an FPS forum for a good sub game. Silent Hunter III was a universal answer, and I ended up getting it. I liked it from the beginning, even though I noticed it needed patching (by the time I got it, it had already been patched all the way to 1.4b, but my computer was without Web connection, so it took a while for the patch to reach my installed copy).

[TheSandman]

Started with Silent Service II, but also played Aces of the Deep (could never figure out, but heck I was like 8 or 9 years old at the time) before moving onto SH1. Also wound up playing Wolfpack and a few others in there as well.

[d@rk51d3]

Silent Service II got me hooked. Bought it for quite a few different platforms, but never found one to match the "actual screenshot" on the box.

[Ark]

Holy cow, GATO came out in 1983.

I remember how much fun it was playing it. I used to LOVE that game.