I still own the 5 1/4" floppy of this game for my C64 and when I was in high school in 1988-1989, I made it to Fleet Admiral. I joined the U.S. Navy, partly to this game and retired after 21 years in 2011.
@CheekyCommodoreGamer
3 сағат бұрын
Fair play to you! It's amazing to learn how some games may have inspired people - but the Microprose games were superbly made and very addictive. I can see how you could have wanted to be in the Navy from playing this great submarine sim 😇🕹️👌
@PaoloD2R2
3 сағат бұрын
Golden times of Microprose Simulations on 8bit, and this 12 yrs old italian kid learning english reading all those gorgeous user manuals, and enjoying those great games
@exidy-yt
51 минут бұрын
My friends and I spent WAY too much time playing this! Even without the manual we put in the effort to figure everything out, and the satisfaction of ambushing and wiping out an escort destroyer with torpedoes, then surfacing in the middle of the helpless convoy and sending all those troop transports to Davy Jones' Locker with the deck gun is not to be forgotten. The blocky graphics vanished and your mind's eye took over. ABSOLUTELY a BIG thumbs up.
@grumsproduktion4083
3 сағат бұрын
O God such memories... Dad loved this game, and whenever he had a BBQ we were out and "played" Silent Service...
@markadshead4214
2 сағат бұрын
The only game my Dad ever played. Thanks for the memories. 😁
@desgilroy1357
3 сағат бұрын
Used to love torpedoeing battleships from behind shallow draft skiffs.
@Enfors
3 сағат бұрын
1:24 "Essentially, founding a whole new SUB-genre". Yeah, you got that right. 🙂
@JustWasted3HoursHere
2 сағат бұрын
As a kid I just didn't have the patience to learn this game, but as an adult I can appreciate it a lot more.
@gamingtonight1526
2 сағат бұрын
Put 100s of hours into this game! Was one of the minority of British kids that had a 1541 floppy back in the day!
@MechaFenris
33 минут бұрын
This was a SUPERB game. I spent a long time playing it. I never got tired of it, even though I never made it to Admiral.
@vidarlystadjohansen9829
3 сағат бұрын
I almost never got into simulator games, but always admired them
@delsydsoftware
3 сағат бұрын
This is another game that I played on the NES instead of the C64, but it was one of my favorite games. The lack of music and minimal sounds made some encounters so tense.
@ArttuTheCat
3 сағат бұрын
MicroProse Software inspired me to play the old classic games on the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 😺👍. I was even lucky to find SOLO FLIGHT (loose, tape) for the Commodore 64 from a thrift market in Koivukylä, Vantaa (Finland 🇫🇮) in the spring 2022 😺👍. And it cost only 2€ 😹😺👍🕹️. Also, i still have MICROPROSE SOCCER for the Commodore 64 in a compilation called SOCCER STARS (CiB, disk) 😺👍🕹️. I still want to look for both of the SILENT SERVICE I & II for both of my Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 😹😺👍🕹️.
@CheekyCommodoreGamer
3 сағат бұрын
Microprose games, along with many times from Accolade, were superb for their simulation style and great depth. A 'manual reader' lovers dream! Some of which were 50+ pages long! I still have my Pirates manual in pristine condition. A great read! 😇🕹️👌
@cdldriver2348
3 сағат бұрын
I just checked Ebay, there are almost (70) Silent Service & (11) Silent Service II for C64 & Amiga for sale now.
@The_Badseed
Сағат бұрын
Love the C64 and these early sub games were really cool. I had an Apple IIc and had a very similar game called Gato that I loved. Nothing like piling up that enemy tonnage
@m0nde
3 сағат бұрын
This was one of my favorites on the C64.
@aleksazunjic9672
Сағат бұрын
Back in the day, I won this game in a competition of a local computer magazine. 😁 They had certain number of "surplus" games, and were giving them up to lucky readers who wrote them a letter (regular snail mail back in the day 😁) . Of course, you had better chance if your letter was somehow motivated, and I decorated mine with drawings of subs, torpedoes and burning ships 😁 I guess other kids went for regular, flashier games (usual assortment of action, combat, platformers, racing games ...) and I didn't have much competition on this. So they printed the names of the winners in their next number, and at the bottom of the list I was there with Silent Service. Game arrived few days later, and after that hours of me playing it until I managed to master it (always on top difficulty 😀) . Anyway, later I had the chance to play these other games, and I still consider that Silent Service was best of them.
@adroharv5140
3 сағат бұрын
excellent. Looks to be just as enthralling on the C64. I originally played this on the ST and then eventually for Amiga. I never did play the second game but vowed I would one day and it looks like I definitely should
@Syragar
3 сағат бұрын
I really like some simulation games, but I didn't really understand this one back in the day because I didn't have a manual. LOL I should give it a whirl now that the manual is easily available.
@Alpha_Omega_1541
2 сағат бұрын
If you lost that manual you had to guess at authentication.
@cubes123
2 сағат бұрын
I spent sooooo long playing this!
@agentmith
Сағат бұрын
I never had a C64; we grew up around IBM and Atari computers in the 80s, but I always look forward to your videos. I’ve wanted to get into C64 for a long time but the software library is so massive that it’s hard to single anything out that aren’t the same regurgitated cross-platform games or arcade ports on popular top # lists that you see everywhere. I’ve found quite a few new games thanks to your channel and I look forward to whenever I see a new video of yours popping up on my feed. I’ve wondered, do you always have some personal experience with the games you review? If not, how are they selected?
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