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What was your first Naval War game on computer you played and which computer ? Name as many as you like...

Mine was Battlecruiser on C64.

then followed by Strike Fleet , Silent Service and War in the Pacific and Guadacanal by GG again on C64. Then I switched to PC and took up on Carrier Strike and Pac War and Guadacanal ( again ).

I still fondly remember the C64 versions.

Computer Bismarck on an Apple II. Chasing the letter "B" around the Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Bismarck

Silent Service on Atari

I recall Power at Sea on C64. I played so much, that I could destroy 100% forts on every island, during landing, and it was enough to send only 300 Marines to take every Base.

Strike Fleet was great! Ships had so many AA missiles, that most sinking was done by those puny guns. I also remember Beach Head, Bismarck, and Iwo Jima/Okinawa by SSI, but there was hardly any sea action there.

What was it? "688" on my first 286?

Fred

ORIGINAL: inqistor

Strike Fleet was great! Ships had so many AA missiles, that most sinking was done by those puny guns. ...

If Iowa stayed , then the Russians were toast at the end of the large scenario...

ORIGINAL: Leandros

What was it? "688" on my first 286?

Fred

that a simulation ? but then again , it was nice... I remember buying a pack of maxell floppies that I didnt have a use for ( they were 5 1/4s ) just to get the demo

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

ORIGINAL: Leandros

What was it? "688" on my first 286?

Fred

that a simulation ? but then again , it was nice... I remember buying a pack of maxell floppies that I didnt have a use for ( they were 5 1/4s ) just to get the demo

I had a US-made "Dynabyte" before the HP (?) "286" - two floppy drives, no hard disk. Program on one disk and data on the other.

Also a MacIntosh (with the small, integrated, screen - not to be confused with my McIntosh audio gear..[:)]) ….on which I played an F-16
game. Don't remember its name, but that's another story.

Still have these oldies somewhere in the basement.

Fred

Fathoms 40 on the apple iic. If you failed on patrol you were demoted to private and sent to the eastern front.
Then Wings of Fury, we went all fancy and splashed out on a joystick!

My first naval war game was the original Harpoon. Don't remember the computer I used at all. Except it was a Tandy....GP

ORIGINAL: Leandros

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

ORIGINAL: Leandros

What was it? "688" on my first 286?

Fred

that a simulation ? but then again , it was nice... I remember buying a pack of maxell floppies that I didnt have a use for ( they were 5 1/4s ) just to get the demo

I had a US-made "Dynabyte" before the HP (?) "286" - two floppy drives, no hard disk. Program on one disk and data on the other.

Also a MacIntosh (with the small, integrated, screen - not to be confused with my McIntosh audio gear..[:)]) ….on which I played an F-16
game. Don't remember its name, but that's another story.

Still have these oldies somewhere in the basement.

Fred

The F16 game was "Falcon" ... impressive little game. Supposedly one can shoot down the Mig with the 20mm which I nevre did

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

ORIGINAL: inqistor

Strike Fleet was great! Ships had so many AA missiles, that most sinking was done by those puny guns. ...

If Iowa stayed , then the Russians were toast at the end of the large scenario...

Damn, there was Iowa? I always watched only at number of missiles carried
Now, I am wondering if it was possible to use those flying torpedoes against surface ships. I've never tried, as they were the only weapon, which could be shot against submarines.
And I also wonder, if those random rockets appearing suddenly in the middle of the sea, were launched by submarines, as I never detected any ship in that direction, even when I changed course, and searched whole area.

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

The F16 game was "Falcon" ... impressive little game. Supposedly one can shoot down the Mig with the 20mm which I nevre did

That was it! Often tricky to land, too. When you mention it the game box is still on a shelf in the garage.

Fred

Pirates!, Destroyer, Silent Service, Guadalcanal - on the C64.

I think it was Fighting Steel.

1942: The Pacific Air War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942:_The_Pacific_Air_War

and

Task Force 1942
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_1942

1st is definitively
"Submarine Commander"



closely followed by "Beach-Head"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Head_(video_game)

another good one: "Strike Fleet"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Fleet

but this one came later, most certainly in the same timeframe of excellent "Silent Service"

Don't recall its name, but it had four Pacific naval battles. Coral Sea, Midway, Santa Cruz, and Eastern Solomons, and it was on a C-64.

this maybe?

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/carr ... 942-44-1cy

or this

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/carrier-force-4nl