Submarine Commander
You're the commander of a submarine in enemy waters. Use your skills, radar, and luck to take down the enemy ships. With 8 difficulty settings there is a lot of the game to master as you must start to keep an…
Submarine Commander is a shooter developed by Atari, released 31 December 1982 on Atari 2600.
What Submarine Commander is
Submarine Commander is a shooter game developed by Atari and released in 1982. It was published by Sears. It is available on Atari 2600 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You're the commander of a submarine in enemy waters. Use your skills, radar, and luck to take down the enemy ships. With 8 difficulty settings there is a lot of the game to master as you must start to keep an eye on your fuel, torpedoes, radar, and enemy while avoiding depth charges as the difficulty rises. You can fire up to two torpedoes at a time. While enemy shows go by your periscope sink as many as you can. The periscope can turn 360 degrees and look off into the horizon or close to your sub. Some ships move slower than others, and one of the ships moves so fast that the only way to hit it is by tracking it by radar instead of visually. This game was never released under any name by…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Submarine Commander launched on 31 December 1982, within three weeks of Trashman, King Kong, Xevious and Grand Prix.
Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong, Xevious, Grand Prix.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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