Submarine game

Neptune5000

New member
Joined
Oct 30, 2009
Messages
8
Reaction score
0
Location
Wisconsin
I'm looking for a video game that was in arcades around 1980. It was similar to Space Invaders in the sense that the submarine that you controlled traveled left and right across the bottom of the screen. Convoys of ships traveled across the top of the screen and you shot at them. If you got the entire convoy, you got bonus points. Every so often, a PT boat traveling at high speed and making buzzing sound would race across the top of the screen and dump of bunch of depth charges which would slowly drift down and blow up. Does anybody remember this game? What was the name?
 
I'm looking for a video game that was in arcades around 1980. It was similar to Space Invaders in the sense that the submarine that you controlled traveled left and right across the bottom of the screen. Convoys of ships traveled across the top of the screen and you shot at them. If you got the entire convoy, you got bonus points. Every so often, a PT boat traveling at high speed and making buzzing sound would race across the top of the screen and dump of bunch of depth charges which would slowly drift down and blow up. Does anybody remember this game? What was the name?


It could be Sea Wolf yes; but you may be confusing these depthcharges with "mines" that appear randomly on the screen. The ships in Sea Wolf do not drop depth charges. They just travel across the screen. If you can remember whether or not the game used a periscope, this would help. Periscope, probably SW. No periscope, something else I probably couldn't tell you....
 
Thanks for replying, but it was not Sea Wolf

There was no periscope. The screen was flat, like Space Invaders. Ships would move slowly across the top of the screen in clusters of around ten. Anybody who played that game would remember the annoying PT boat. It made a buzzing like a small chain saw and it dropped a bunch of depth charges as it sped across the top of the screen. The submarine had left and right controler and a fire button. You had to use the left and right control to avoid the depth charge detonations. The trick was to avoid getting blown up and still get the entire convoy. It was in the arcades the same time as Defender, which puts it in the 1979 -1981 range.
 
There was no periscope. The screen was flat, like Space Invaders. Ships would move slowly across the top of the screen in clusters of around ten. Anybody who played that game would remember the annoying PT boat. It made a buzzing like a small chain saw and it dropped a bunch of depth charges as it sped across the top of the screen. The submarine had left and right controler and a fire button. You had to use the left and right control to avoid the depth charge detonations. The trick was to avoid getting blown up and still get the entire convoy. It was in the arcades the same time as Defender, which puts it in the 1979 -1981 range.

Sounds like either Depth Charge or Deep Scan...both by Sega I believe. Games were in a small Frogger type cabinet and made in the late 70's. But these games are opposite to your description....you are the ship firing down on the submarines...
 
Last edited:
Hello everybody,
Thank you for your suggestions, but we aren't there yet. It was not Polaris, Depth Charge, Deep Scan, or Tomahawk777. I've checked all of those. The graphics at the top of the screen looked like sky. The ships of the convoy were silhouetted on the distant horizon. I think that there was a size difference between the ships that were farther away. Ships that were farther away were smaller. And it has to have that annoying PT boat. This thing would come buzzing across the top of the screen about every 15 seconds and rain depth charges. I appreciate all of the feedback. And for Oryk Zinyo, FANTASTIC picture!
 
Hello everybody,
Thank you for your suggestions, but we aren't there yet. It was not Polaris, Depth Charge, Deep Scan, or Tomahawk777. I've checked all of those. The graphics at the top of the screen looked like sky. The ships of the convoy were silhouetted on the distant horizon. I think that there was a size difference between the ships that were farther away. Ships that were farther away were smaller. And it has to have that annoying PT boat. This thing would come buzzing across the top of the screen about every 15 seconds and rain depth charges. I appreciate all of the feedback. And for Oryk Zinyo, FANTASTIC picture!

Sub Hunter? But that is opposite again. I remember that game in a Tiato looking Space Invaders cab. I'm just about out of sub games that I can remember...:(
 
For Alan173, it was not Sub Hunter, but thanks for the suggestion. For IvanTT, I read the description of Sea Wolf and noticed that Sea Wolf also had a PT boat which made an oscillating buzzing sound, but the graphics are wrong. In the game I'm looking for, the convoy of ships moved very slowly, maybe taking a minute or longer to move across the top of the screen. It was a fairly tight cluster of ships, between ten and twenty ships. They were on the horizon with sky in the background. Like Space Invaders, you could only shoot vertically, so you had to adjust your position to the left or right along the bottom of the screen to shoot at the ships and to avoid the depth charges. Thank you for all the help.
 
get mudmantim into this...

sub games are his favorite....

How about

"run deep" I got a great marquee for that game....
 
We have a winner!!!!

WOW!!!! Thank you soooooo much, Laschek! It is "N-Sub". I forgot about the enemy submarines also shooting at you and I forgot that your submarine goes up and down in addition to left and right.

You tube link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHJs7ZPnns

For Modessitt, Blinddog, Leinhit, and Gorfchampion, thank you for suggesting Fire One!, Up Scope, Run Deep, and Tora Tora.

This web site, International Arcade, does not have a picture of N-Sub, so I wasn't completely sure. I did a regular google search for N-Sub and found the youtube video, and that was it, no question. I've been racking my brains because I used to play that game all the time. There was an arcade near where I had a summer job in 1980 and I played N-Sub on my lunch breaks. I got to be excellent at it. I've looked for that game off and on for the past ten years. I was pretty happy when I found this site. I went through the lists on this web site and looked at every nautical sounding game, but I didn't see it. Hence my desperate plea. I never would have guessed it was hiding in the N's.

Thank you Laschek. Now I just need to find one to buy. It is listed as very rare. Only one person has it. It is not listed on Ebay.

Thanks again everybody. I consider this thread to be closed. I'm going to start a new one with the title, "Wanted: N-Sub."

Bye.
 
I'm looking for a video game that was in arcades around 1980. It was similar to Space Invaders in the sense that the submarine that you controlled traveled left and right across the bottom of the screen. Convoys of ships traveled across the top of the screen and you shot at them. If you got the entire convoy, you got bonus points. Every so often, a PT boat traveling at high speed and making buzzing sound would race across the top of the screen and dump of bunch of depth charges which would slowly drift down and blow up. Does anybody remember this game? What was the name?

Polaris... I've got a mini... pretty fun game.

Edit:
Hmmm -- N-Sub? Never heard of it... have to look it up.
 
Last edited:
:)

Hm, the youtube vid is from the SG1000 home console, are you sure it's the right game ;)




WOW!!!! Thank you soooooo much, Laschek! It is "N-Sub". I forgot about the enemy submarines also shooting at you and I forgot that your submarine goes up and down in addition to left and right.

You tube link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHJs7ZPnns

For Modessitt, Blinddog, Leinhit, and Gorfchampion, thank you for suggesting Fire One!, Up Scope, Run Deep, and Tora Tora.

This web site, International Arcade, does not have a picture of N-Sub, so I wasn't completely sure. I did a regular google search for N-Sub and found the youtube video, and that was it, no question. I've been racking my brains because I used to play that game all the time. There was an arcade near where I had a summer job in 1980 and I played N-Sub on my lunch breaks. I got to be excellent at it. I've looked for that game off and on for the past ten years. I was pretty happy when I found this site. I went through the lists on this web site and looked at every nautical sounding game, but I didn't see it. Hence my desperate plea. I never would have guessed it was hiding in the N's.

Thank you Laschek. Now I just need to find one to buy. It is listed as very rare. Only one person has it. It is not listed on Ebay.

Thanks again everybody. I consider this thread to be closed. I'm going to start a new one with the title, "Wanted: N-Sub."

Bye.
 
Back
Top Bottom