Tag: Red Storm Rising (1988 game)
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Old Gamers Never Die: Some More Thoughts on ‘Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age’
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in Alternative History (Alt History), Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Cold Waters, Computer and Video Games, Killerfish Games, MicroProse Software, Naval Warfare Simulations, Red Storm Rising (1986 novel), Regiments (2022), Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age, Strike Fleet (1987), The Third World War: August 1985, The Third World War: The Untold Story (1982), Tom Clancy (author)Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age Genre: Real-time strategy/naval warfare simulation Developed by: Triassic Games Published by: MicroProse Release Date: November 12, 2024 Current Status: Early Access If you’re a regular visitor to A Certain Point of View, Too, you probably know I lived through the last 28 years of the Cold War.…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Some Thoughts on ‘Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age’ (Early Access)
I’m an avid enthusiast of naval combat simulations. My journey began in the spring of 1987, when my uncle Sixto gifted me my very first computer, an Apple IIe. The first game I eagerly added to my collection was Destroyer, a 1986 single-player simulation of a Fletcher-class destroyer crafted by Epyx Games. Set in the…
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Old Gamers Never Die: My Ten Favorite MicroProse Games of All Time
Back in the late 1980s, my late father’s brother Sixto gave me my first personal computer, an Apple IIe with a color monitor, a joystick, and an ImageWriter II dot-matrix printer. It was to be used for college-related work – I had been staying on campus till 6:30 PM every weekday so I could use…
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Book Review: ‘SSN’ (originally published as ‘SSN: Strategies of Submarine Warfare’)
The Inspiration: Tom Clancy’s SSN On November 16, 1996, Simon & Schuster Interactive released Tom Clancy’s SSN, a computer video game/submarine simulator based on the Improved Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack sub USS Cheyenne (SSN-773). Co-produced by Clancy Interactive Entertainment and Virtus Corporation, SSN was a single-player third-person perspective game set in what was then the…
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On the War in Ukraine: Russian Cruiser ‘Moskva’ Sinks, Moscow and Kyiv Have Conflicting Narratives About the Incident
Putin’s War Suffers Setbacks As you probably know, Russia’s war in Ukraine – a blatant act of naked aggression that Vladimir Putin’s government euphemistically calls a “special military operation – is not going well for Moscow or the much-vaunted Russian military. Instead of a 21st Century blitzkrieg and a quick victory culminating in Russia’s capture…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A Discussion of ‘Strike from the Sea’ in ‘Cold Waters’
Background Briefing If you’re a regular reader of A Certain Point of View, Too, you probably know that I like to play – on occasion – a computer video game called Cold Waters. Published four years ago by Australian game design studio Killerfish Games, Cold Waters is a Cold War-turns-hot submarine simulator that its designers…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A Discussion on ‘Beating the Odds’ in ‘Cold Waters’
Background Briefing Cold Waters, the 2017 Cold War-turned-hot submarine simulation developed and published four years ago by Australian game studio Killerfish Games (Atlantic Fleet, War on the Sea) is one of my favorite computer games. Inspired by the 1988 MicroProse game Red Storm Rising, Cold Waters puts you in command of a nuclear-powered submarine from…
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Old Gamers Never Die, or: Discussion on One of the Tougher ‘Cold Waters’ Missions
Conn, Sonar: New contact bearing 0-4-5, designated Sierra 1. Conn, Sonar: New contact bearing 0-4-7, designated Sierra 2. Make depth 1-2-0 feet, aye. Conn, Sonar: Sierra 1 is classified as…escort. Set course 0-4-0, aye. Conn, Weps: Tube 1 loaded. Part One: A Bit of Background If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know…
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