Run silent. Games where you command a submarine

[fat flatulent git]

I'm trying to get a selection of submarine games.  Arcade shooters or sims, doesn't matter.

 

So far I've got:

 

Submarine Attack - Master System

Steel Diver - 3DS

The Hunt for Red October - GB

The Submarine - PS

Turbo Sub - Lynx

Underwater Unit - PS,2

Battlestations midway _ 360

Dive Alert - NGPC

In The Hunt - PS

 

On the way are:

 

Silent Service - NES

Poseidon Wars 3D - Master System

 

Can anyone recommend any more?  i'm only into console games, so won't be getting Silent Service 2, which only got a PC release AFAIK.

 

Anyone else play submarine games?

[phillv85]

There's 688 Attack Sub on the Mega Drive. It's not a bad title considering what it is and the platform it's on.

[Camel]

Seaquest - Atari 2600

Treasures of the Deep - PSX

[fat flatulent git]

All three of those sound interesting.  I don't suppose Sea Quest made it onto any compilations on more modern consoles.

[Qazimod]

Terror of the Deep for C64? It’s more of a diving bell craft, but it was quite unique as you juggled maintenance of the craft (oxygen, fuel, generating energy) with navigation of the surroundings... that said, I never got very far in the game before everything went awry.  

[Camel]

1 hour ago, Tomcat said:

All three of those sound interesting.  I don't suppose Sea Quest made it onto any compilations on more modern consoles.

 

Don't know I'm afraid. There's also Seaquest DSV on the Mega Drive.

[spanky debrest]

Sub Rebellion was a pretty cool Irem PS2 game. 

 

Edit - I see this was already listed under its Japanese name, Underwater Unit. Oh well.

[Camel]

Sub Hunt - Intellivision.

[DukeOfEarlsfield]

The absolute daddy.

 

First game I played that came with a keyboard overlay.

Rock hard and incredibly tense. I didn’t get very far with it.

[spanky debrest]

^^^ that looks hardcore af

[fat flatulent git]

Nice one.- a few to investigate.  Thanks

[Dudley]

Silent Service was originally a PC game and that's probably a better place to play it. Same goes for 688 Attack Sub.

[Camel]

Started as a micro computer game IIRC. OP was after console games though.

[Dudley]

Oh sorry missed that line.

 

Then yeah, the MD version of 688 is a second from me.

[Unofficial Who]

16 hours ago, Qazimod said:

Terror of the Deep for C64? It’s more of a diving bell craft, but it was quite unique as you juggled maintenance of the craft (oxygen, fuel, generating energy) with navigation of the surroundings... that said, I never got very far in the game before everything went awry.  

 

I remember that.

 

 

 

In a similar vein RMS Titanic.

 

 

[Unofficial Who]

And this was one of the first games I ever played on the C64, a port of an older arcade game.

 

 

[Unofficial Who]

55 minutes ago, Dudley said:

Silent Service was originally a PC game and that's probably a better place to play it. Same goes for 688 Attack Sub.

 

50 minutes ago, Camel said:

Started as a micro computer game IIRC. OP was after console games though.

 

C64 right? I remember seeing it demonstrated in department stores. By the time I got a C64 it was out of print.

 

 

[merman]

There's Harpoon on DOS, written by the naval guy who collaborated with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising and Hunt For Red October

 

 

 

And there are two games based on The Hunt For Red October - the original strategy game based on the book, and the later film tie-in (which is more of a shoot 'em up with Ocean-style minigames)

[matt0]

I had a pirate copy of Hunter Killer on the ST.

 

That was fun without the manual...

 

EDIT: It was Hunter Killer not Silent Hunter. But that's another sub game anyway.

[SeanR]

I had a pirate copy of silent service, on the ST.

 

and sunk the same three ships off the coast of japan, over and over and over...

[smac]

Subwar 2050? Might have been PC only.

[Camel]

this thread 

[Unofficial Who]

On 22/08/2020 at 01:34, Camel said:

Seaquest - Atari 2600

Treasures of the Deep - PSX

 

Seaquest is a great little game and I still play it from time to time.

 

 

There's a neat trick you can use on higher levels where oxygen runs down more quickly. If you aren't ready to fully surface having just a bit of the tower of the sub above water will stop the oxygen counter from ticking down.

[fat flatulent git]

2 hours ago, Unofficial Who said:

 

Seaquest is a great little game and I still play it from time to time.

 

 

There's a neat trick you can use on higher levels where oxygen runs down more quickly. If you aren't ready to fully surface having just a bit of the tower of the sub above water will stop the oxygen counter from ticking down.

 

Are you emulating it?

[Unofficial Who]

2 minutes ago, Tomcat said:

 

Are you emulating it?

 

Not my video but I still play it emulated on the PS2 via Activision Anthology. Stella probably runs it fine.

[fat flatulent git]

Ah, good.  I've got it on PSP then.

[Nick R]

This thread is beginning to remind me of this classic:

 

 

 

Does DEFCON count as a game where you command a submarine? Unfortunately, I don't think it fits your criteria, because you command squads of submarines, rather than individual ones. And it's not a console game. Also it came out in 2007 and so is only pseudo-retro rather than genuinely retro.

[fat flatulent git]

7 hours ago, Nick R said:

This thread is beginning to remind me of this classic:

 

 

 

Does DEFCON count as a game where you command a submarine? Unfortunately, I don't think it fits your criteria, because you command squads of submarines, rather than individual ones. And it's not a console game. Also it came out in 2007 and so is only pseudo-retro rather than genuinely retro.

 

It doesn't count in the sense that I won't be picking it up, but it counts in that it sounds worth a look.  I'm interested to see the submarine games  people played on their computers anyway.  I spent many hours playing Silent Service on a Dos PC in the 80s.

 

My NES version has been dispatched.

[spanky debrest]

Not sure how I forgot Sqoon on the NES, possibly the earliest of Irem's submarine-based video games and one I've always found really enjoyable.

[Anne Summers]

I have vague memories of a Scramble clone where you control a sub rather than a space ship. 

Almost certain it was on the Speccy or BBC though and probably not console.