OH man I played a TON of Silent Service.

That could be some seriously tense gaming.

I wish they'd re-release that somewhere ... granted I haven't looked. It might not have aged but I could go for a something like that again, maybe not full sim... more casual friendly.

You might want to look at Wolfpack, mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It requires multiplayer, 2-5 players control a German u-boat against Allied convoys in the Atlantic). It's an interesting combination of sim-lite (engines, battery and buoyancy are modeled relatively simplistically) and deep nerd simulation (fire control/torpedo solution) aspects.

Thank you.

Both Silent Service and Silent Service II have been reissued and are available from a bunch of online game retailers. Since GOG is currently having their summer sale, you can get them both in a single bundle for just $1.49: https://www.gog.com/game/silent_service_12

Oh my how times have changed!

Processor: 1.8 GHz

Memory: 512 MB RAM

Storage: 2GB HDD

I played Silent Service on an Amiga 500: 7.16mHZ, 512k, 3.5” floppy.

Please stay off the grass.

Also 688!

Vektor Grafix' Shuttle also had a fast forward feature that would skip to the important parts. I guess it's not that exciting to spend 5 hours atop the crawler as it slowly carries the vehicle to the launch pad...

I was a big fan of a lot of complex "realistic" simulations at one point... in theory. In reality--yes, there was the hours of boredom followed a minute of terror problem but there was also the problem that you're not going to hop into a reasonable facsimile of the cockpit of an F-16 or the command center of a WWII sub and control it without spending a lot more time training than all but the most very very serious simulation gamers are going to put in.

F19 was the same way. I spent many hours there...