WSAD

In 1988 I transferred to Cubi point, Philippines. I worked in an operations center, briefing crews on various long range patrol missions. The compound I worked in was loaded with computers, and we had plenty of down time. The last 4 years had seen a major leap in computers and PC Games. Working in the Navy my interests leaned to Navy combat simulations, fortunately there were some great games in that category.

688 Attack Sub was next - take command of a 688 or Soviet Alpha in a cold war setting. That was basically our mission at work, except for the part where you got to blow up the Alpha. These were DOS based games, graphics were amazing at the time and they provided a nice balance between realism and fun game play.











Near the end of my tour Harpoon came along, like the above games it was actually relevant to what we were doing every day, and the level of realism was pretty amazing. The Harpoon series were by far the most advanced combat sims of the day, Harpoon was actually used to train Operations Specialists in the fleet. These were fun and challenging games.
I had survived numerous coup attempts in the PI, as well as the eruption of MT. Pinatubo. Desert Storm was winding down, and I was on my way back to San Diego.
It was also time to get a computer of my own, and go back to sea.