Customer Reviews

Silent Service

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Not as easy as you might expect. You can practice chasing ships, aiming, firing torpedos before getting into the real game. View is periscope or map. You can adjust the speed of game play. Pretty cool as far as NES games go. You can play cat and mouse with a destroyer or wipe out a convoy. Graphics are pretty good, too.

There must be a million of things better to do on a rainy day, but playing Silent Service is not one of them. It's a one great big BORE! Cool concept, yes...but zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Silent Service is one of my favorite NES games of all time. It takes a strategic mind and nerves of steel to complete, which i was only able to do once. A truly great game.

If you are an older teen or adult you would probably like this style of game. I didn't like it when i first played it when i was like 6-7 years old becuase i didn't know what to do but when i tried again when i was like 15 i liked it a lot. It's really a game you will either hate or love so i would watch a video on youtube before you buy.

We all remember the side scrolling shoot em up fast paced games for nintendo. Lesser known titles like this one arent as white knuckle but instead have the player do something most modern games dont...THINK. This is not a strategy game but strategy is involved. You have to keep visibility, ammo, speed, and the ability to learn and read your enemy before you make any decisions. You can play scenarios in the Pacific to stalk convoys and attack them when you feel they are most vulnerable. Also you can pull hit and runs simply fire a torpedo and get out of there before destroyers start dropping charges...you CAN blow debris and hope they take it but it is rare that they will. This was a great "simulator" and still is-I dont know of any other submarine games for the new skews.