Obscure Question.

[alyinsanfran]

How about a decent *sailing* game?
Back in the dim dark recesses of my mind (the parts Absolut Mandarinand Herradura Silver haven't found and violated yet) I seem to remember a few coming out in the early 80's.
I think there was one for the C64 that was fairly decent (not graphically, but a good simulation of the strategy).
Any takers?

 

[trooper]

What was that sailing game on the Play Station, It was out in the very early stages of it life. It had full 3d rendered graphics with very large sprites/models, And you controlled this sailing ship and went from port to port (for what reason, Can`t recall). But as you move faster the screen would zoom out.

Ill have a look.

Edit: Found it.

It was actually Overboard or Shipwreakers!.

This would be cool. But i can dream. :rolleyes:

Trooper

 

[The Wub]

Hi Aly,

It's not a sailing game in the way you mean, but Typhoon Thompson: Search for the Sea Child is based out in the ocean and if it runs in Castaway ok may quench your thirst for water based action. There may be a c64 version one day too...

Otherwise, I can't for the life of me think of a single sailing game on any platform....

wub.

 

[TelcoLou]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this:

Pirates Gold! For Genesis.

... well, you do sail in it ...

 

[Blah]

Monkey Island in SCUMM? Kidding...

 

[alyinsanfran]

Cheers! These are all cool, but I'm sure I remember a match racing game.
I'm also sure the number of GP-owning, teen-in-the-80's, sailing enthusiasts is very very small....
If I find what I'm looking for I'll report back.

 

[Matty Jetman]

There's Sailing by Activision for the Spectrum

You can get it from World Of Spectrum

Thinking about this game also reminded me of Surfchamp which included a mini surf board to put over the spectrum keys!!!!!!!

I wonder if you could use that on the GP32 :lol:

Adios,
Matt

 

[gaterooze]

Try:

American Challenge Sailing Simulation (c64)

And that Speccy Sailing game is also on c64.

How about Uncharted Waters 1 & 2 on Genesis/SNES? The second is rather good.

 

[alyinsanfran]

Cool, American Challenge is the one I was thinking of. I played this a hell of a lot back in the day.
With those other games now I'm set for sailing. Thanks guys!
Building up a collection of different sports is kind of fun, they each have their own balance of strategy/reflex/luck.

Time to hunt down Sensible Jai Alai and Dino Dini's International Shinty Simulator....

 

[timthepig]

CLIPPER FOR THE ATARI 800\400 - it can be found here
http://vjetnam.hopto.org/


Also a game called "Microsailing" - though I haven't tried this one(Atari 800)
http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showindex.php?sort=pop

 

[kotd]

What was that sailing game on the Play Station, It was out in the very early stages of it life. It had full 3d rendered graphics with very large sprites/models, And you controlled this sailing ship and went from port to port (for what reason, Can`t recall). But as you move faster the screen would zoom out.

Ill have a look.

Edit: Found it.

It was actually Overboard or Shipwreakers!.

This would be cool. But i can dream. :rolleyes:

Trooper

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It was made by Psygnosis. Good for an hour, than just gets boring. Nice graphics though.