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

[Daddy Dragon]

My first sub sim, if you want to call it that was Avalon Hills Submarine! c.1979 or 1980. But that was for the table top. My father purchased an Atari in 1982 at the local Sears, and I seem to recall something called Submarine Commander (but can't be sure now if that was the exact title). It was similar to the periscope game at the local arcade.

After that, just about ever sub game I could get my hands on. Lost of Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, and I do remember the original Harpoon game. I picked up the original pen & paper rules after reading that all of the naval battles in Clancey's Red Storm Rising had been played out using those rules, and when the PC game came out while I was in the Army, I snatched that up too. Never tried Aces of the Deep though.

[Yak]

Silent Hunter way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the Macarena rulled the airwaves... *shudder*

oomm, badda-de, budda-de macarena...

[Grothesj2]

Silent Service....and it's why I am glad to be back to the Pacific. Always liked this theater better. More interesting to my mind.

[enemyminds81]

silent service on NES. i didnt own a nes myself, had a master system. my dad had a 386 at the time, but he wouldnt let me play games on it, i was probably 10- or 12 when i first played that game on nes. man i loved it so much i remeber. i actually borrowed my friends NES because he was not using it much, just to play that one game for like a month i remeber.

I tried it recently years after playing it on a ROM emu, and it's still cool. need to try to find the dos version though.

first real sim though was janes 688 in the late 90s, loved that game played it to death, even if i didnt know how alot of things worked:p also played quite a few other janes games. some of the best sims from air to sea were made by Janes/EA

also played some aces of the deep

sh3 after along time of playing FPS.

sh3 is the best to date honestly

not a sub sim or anything, but the the wing commander series are also some of the best sims out there, except maybe the first x-wing on dos hehe...the good ole days

[Kitzbuell]

I believe it was 'Silent Service" on a PC Jr. It ran poorly on that box, as I remember but got me hooked on Sub Sims from the first day I ran the software (could it have been on a 5.25 floppy?).

[ScottD]

My very first Sub Sim was Silent Hunter on the Commodore 64. That and F-15 Strike Eagle where the very two first games I played on it.

The coolest thing was my fathers uncle was over watching me play it (I was about 11-12 at the time) and they had a copy protection scheme where you had to look up the class of destroyer in the manual to play. Well my Fathers Uncle was in the USN during WW2 and he was able to tell me what they where before looking them up in the manual!

[Flakchak]

First subsim was Silent Service, the first one. Played it on a Tandy over at a parent's friend's house. Needless to say, they also has Strike Eagle as well.

After that, it was:

Silent Service - 1989 NES

Had GATO in a box of floppies that was given to us when we first bought a PC, but never got into it. Kinda sucked without a manual.

Silent Service II - 1992 - DOS
688 Attack Sub - 1993 - DOS ... late
Red Storm Rising - 1993 - DOS ... yeah, I hit that one late
Aces of the Deep - 1994 - DOS
Silent Hunter - 1995 - DOS
688i - 1998 - Windows

Never really got into Silent Hunter II. I bought it at EB, along with the Pacific Addon here when I was my academy for work. Passed the time well Played Silent Hunter III when it first came out, but it crashed all the time, and I didn't like what the copy protection was doing to my system.

As for modern stuff. I really really really wanted Fast Attack when it first came out, but never bought it. Same thing for SubCommand and Dangerous Waters. If I found a sim that modeled the 637 class, I'd be all over it.

Now comes Silent Hunter 4. Was preordered at Amazon, now cancelled because... well... they suck. Placed my order with Ubi this morning, 1 business day shipping because I don't know the value of a dollar. Hopefully I'll be up and running by the weekend.

[Samu*]

Silent Hunter I, way back at 1996.

Does someone recall or do I remember wrong but atleast N-Europe release had its manual at floppy disk. Buyer had to print it out

[P_Funk]

Am I the only one who walked into EB and bought SH3 as a subsim virgin?

[Spaxspore]

A dos game, called WOlf Pack circa 1996-7

Next one was

Sh2 in 2002

[charlesmester]

Back in 1979 I was at a toy store with my kids and I spotted a game system they were calling a computor. It was just a key board and you had to hook it up with a rf box to your tv. It was silver with little rubber keys and if you wanted to run a program it would take you days to do it. The only reason I bought it was because it had a game cartige with it that had a flight game and a sub game on it. The cartridge looked alot like an atari cartridge. The flight game was just to take off from the airport in a jumbo jet and land again, always crashed. But the sub game was a lot of fun. It was like shooting ducks at a fair. All you did was shoot torp. at ships that came across your path at different ranges. The graphics for that time was really impresive and only fifty bucks to me was a good buy, had a lot of fun with that one. Wish I could remember the name of it.

[DarkStar173rd]

Tom Clancy kept my VisaCard numbers right behind his shirt protecter, the book, the movie, then the game Red Star Rising. I was the only MSC Crewmember to lug around a 486Tower 17"Monitor,Keyboard&mouse,small speakers and play Red Star Rising at sea aboard the USNS POWHATAN ( T-ATF 166 ) Ahh! the early 80's. Glad its at AOB 180

[Capt. Shark Bait]

my first was, or rather is, SH4

[swash]

Originally Posted by robbierob2005

The first subsim I played was 'Silent Service' on the commodore back in the 80's.

yup, same here. For such a simple game by today's standards, I spent many hours battling those black sprite block shaped ships on the screen.

[kakemann]

Seawolf, by Electronic Arts: year 1994. Actually a great sountrack!