Slightly OT : First Naval War game on computer you played...

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That's it.[:D]
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Oh, you just posted the second link. It's probably the second, as the first came out in '92. Had a PC by then.
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Red Storm Rising on a C64. Not my computer or game, but owned by a guy in my unit in 1988 or so. Desperately wanted a computer after that!
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Ocean Conqueror and Silent Service on ZX Spectrum
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Oh, I also recall Carriers at War. It had actually nice graphics for Japanese planes.
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Great Naval Battles, on a 386 SX/25.
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I still have my 3 1/2" Harpoon disks, and an external drive to load them with....GP
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I remember that old computer I had was a Tandy 386 dx4 with a 20mb hd and I upgraded the memory to 4md....GP
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Commodore 64- Carriers at War from SSG and Carrier Force from SSI
the the PC- Carrier Strike from SSI and Pacific War Gary Grigsby SSand
of course one of the best World War II: Battles of South Pacific by Quantum Quality Productions
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Carriers at War on C64.
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Gary Grigsby’s Guadalcanal on apple I pc. 64k powerhouse.

Epic surface battles would flash descriptions on the screen

My friends and I played so much we wore out the 5” floppy disk and crashed our High school grades.

Fun times.
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Probably "Silent Service" or "Red Storm Rising"....its been a while...[:)]

But the first hard core naval wargames that really sucked me in were probably Gary Grigsby's "War in the South Pacific" and the classic "Action Stations".

We REALLY need an update of "Action Stations"! I miss that game!

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"Midway" - Spectrum 48K

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I believe it was Warship followed by Carrier Strike.
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I enjoyed playing Gary Grisby's Warship back then then finally got the Pacific War :)
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played so much we wore out the 5” floppy disk and crashed our High school grades.

Ah, you probably learned more playing the game.[:D]
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ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

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.

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ORIGINAL: Mikawa

Gary Grigsby’s Guadalcanal on apple I pc. 64k powerhouse.

Epic surface battles would flash descriptions on the screen

My friends and I played so much we wore out the 5” floppy disk and crashed our High school grades.

Fun times.

Yep. Who can forget...

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Twas definitely "Red Storm Rising" on C64 for me. Played "Pacific War" and a game about the Pacific that happened near Guadalcanal/New Guinea in 1942 but not sure which one was "the first". I guess I wasn't so sure when I got down to thinking about it,
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ORIGINAL: spence

Twas definitely "Red Storm Rising" on C64 for me. Played "Pacific War" and a game about the Pacific that happened near Guadalcanal/New Guinea in 1942 but not sure which one was "the first". I guess I wasn't so sure when I got down to thinking about it,

That last one sounds like TF1942. You can change stations so that you are the TF Admiral, gunnery officer of a ship, torpedo officer and others that I don't recall. I soon found that if I let the AI take over the TF while I tried to be gunnery officer, the TF got slaughtered - usually by making itself a perfect torpedo target. So I stayed as Admiral and maneuvered hard whenever it looked like the IJN was doing their parabolic torpedo attack. US gunnery rules!
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