|
Silent Steel
''Silent Steel'' is a 1995 submarine simulator computer game by Tsunami Games. It was created during the influx of interactive movies during the 1990s. The game is composed almost entirely of live-action full motion video, with sparse computer-generated graphics depicting external shots of the boat during torpedo attacks and atmospheric fly-bys. A version playable on DVD players was released in 1999, following from a DVD-ROM version in 1997. The DVD-ROM version was the first video game formatted for DVD. A sequel, ''Silent Steel 2'', was announced by Tsunami for release in 1997, but it was cancelled. Gameplay The gameplay consists of choosing from three options when the video pauses at certain points. Once the player chooses, the video resumes. This creates several possible plotlines and outcomes. Most of these result in the destruction of the player's submarine; only two distinct threads lead to victory. Plot The player commands USS ''Idaho'', a fictional ''Ohio''-class ballist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsunami Games
Tsunami Games (or Tsunami Media, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1991 by former employees of Sierra Entertainment (then known as Sierra On-Line). The company was based in Oakhurst, California, which at the time was also the home of Sierra. Between 1992 and 1996 Tsunami published several games, most notably adventure games and interactive movies, before becoming defunct. History Tsunami Games was formed in 1991 by Edmond Heinbockel, former chief financial officer of Sierra On-Line. Its early games were point-and-click adventure games including '' Ringworld: Revenge of The Patriarch'', which was based on the Ringworld novels by Larry Niven. ''Blue Force'', a police procedural adventure game, was designed by Jim Walls, the former designer of the ''Police Quest'' series at Sierra. Also notable was '' Protostar: War on the Frontier'' (1993), a space exploration and adventure game in the style of ''Starflight''. Interactive movies Tsunami made t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COMSUBLANT
Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic (COMSUBLANT) is the Submarine Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet type commander under the United States Fleet Forces Command. The principal responsibility of the Admiral commanding is to operate, maintain, train, and equip submarines. COMSUBLANT also has additional duties as commander of NATO's Allied Submarine Command and also Commander, Naval Submarine Forces. As Commander, Naval Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR), an additional type commander role, he also supervises Commander, Submarine Force Pacific (often known as COMSUBPAC). From the 1960s to the 1990s the commander also held the NATO post of Commander, Submarines, Western Atlantic (COMSUBWESTLANT). History Established on 7 December 1941, Rear Admiral Richard S. Edwards was its first commander. COMSUBLANT headquarters was at Naval Submarine Base New London until 1960, when it was moved to Naval Station Norfolk. U.S. submarine operations in the Atlantic, however, date from before World War I. On Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interactive Movie Video Games
Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but most definitions are related to interaction between users and computers and other machines through a user interface. Interactivity can however also refer to interaction between people. It nevertheless usually refers to interaction between people and computers – and sometimes to interaction between computers – through software, hardware, and networks. Multiple views on interactivity exist. In the "contingency view" of interactivity, there are three levels: #Not interactive, when a message is not related to previous messages. #Reactive, when a message is related only to one immediately previous message. #Interactive, when a message is related to a number of previous messages and to the relationship between them. One body of research has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVD Interactive Technology
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used for video programs (watched using DVD players) or formerly for storing software and other computer files as well. DVDs offer significantly higher storage capacity than compact discs (CD) while having the same dimensions. A standard DVD can store up to 4.7 GB of storage, while variants can store up to a maximum of 17.08 GB. Prerecorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD. Such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs (DVD-R and DVD+R) can be recorded once using a DVD recorder and then function as a DVD-ROM. Rewritable DVDs (DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM) can be recorded and erase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold War Video Games
Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale. This corresponds to on the Celsius scale, on the Fahrenheit scale, and on the Rankine scale. Since temperature relates to the thermal energy held by an object or a sample of matter, which is the kinetic energy of the random motion of the particle constituents of matter, an object will have less thermal energy when it is colder and more when it is hotter. If it were possible to cool a system to absolute zero, all motion of the particles in a sample of matter would cease and they would be at complete rest in the classical sense. The object could be described as having zero thermal energy. Microscopically in the description of quantum mechanics, however, matter still has zero-point energy even at absolute zero, because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Games
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult. ''Colossal Cave Adventure'' is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include ''Zork'', ''King's Quest'', ''Monkey Island'', and ''Myst''. Initial adventure games developed in the 1970s and early 1980s were text-based, using text parsers to translate the player's input into commands. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text commands wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Video Games
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestone, Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for Personal computer, PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is Oklahoma City bombing, bombed by Domestic terrorism in the United States, domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Great Hanshin earthquake, Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Metzler
Jim Metzler (born June 23, 1951) is an American actor, best known for guest-appearances on popular TV series. In 1983, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his supporting role in the 1982 film ''Tex''. Filmography Films *''Squeeze Play!'' (1979) - Second base *'' Four Friends'' (1981) - Tom *''Tex'' (1982) - Mason McCormick *''River's Edge'' (1986) - Mr. Burkewaite *''The Christmas Star'' (1986) - Stuart Jameson *''Hot to Trot'' (1988) - Boyd Osborne *'' 976-EVIL'' (1988) - Marty Palmer *'' Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat'' (1989) - David *''Old Gringo'' (1989) - Ron *''Circuitry Man'' (1990) - Danner *''Delusion'' (1991) - George O'Brien *''One False Move'' (1992) - Dud Cole *'' Waxwork II: Lost in Time'' (1992) - Roger *''A Weekend with Barbara und Ingrid'' (1992) - Danny Shaffer *''Gypsy Eyes'' (1992) - Harry Noble *'' Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II'' (1994) - Danner *'' Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest'' (1995) - William Porter *''Cadillac Ranch'' (1996) - T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian McNamara
Brian McNamara is an American actor. His first major role was in the film ''The Flamingo Kid'' (1984). He then went on to appear in a few films, such as ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit'' (1986), ''Caddyshack II'' (1988), ''Arachnophobia (film), Arachnophobia'' (1990) and ''Mystery Date'' (1991). McNamara was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Golden Globe Award for playing Dean Karny in the television film ''Billionaire Boys Club (1987 film), Billionaire Boys Club'' (1987). However, his most popular role was as Michael Holden (character), Michael Holden in the television series ''Army Wives'' (2007–2013). Career Early in his career, he played Todd Young in ''Caddyshack II'' (1988). He had roles in such feature films as ''Arachnophobia (film), Arachnophobia'' and ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit''. He guest starred in such television series as ''NYPD Blue'', ''The O.C.'', ''Seinfeld'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriots Point
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston. Museum ships and exhibits Patriots Point is home to two museum ships: * , an aircraft carrier * , a destroyer Former ships include the Coast Guard cutters , and , The museum hosted NS ''Savannah'', America's only nuclear merchant vessel, until 1994. The submarine was open until 2021 when she was closed due to her deteriorating condition. By 2022, she was being scrapped on site. ''Yorktown'' has many exhibits on board, including: * Medal of Honor museum, with biographies of all medal recipients * 28 naval aircraft, including: ** Douglas A-3 Skywarrior ** Douglas A-4 Skyhawk ** Grumman A-6 Intruder ** Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II ** McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II ** Grumman F-9 Cougar ** Grumman F-14 Tomcat ** Lockheed S-3 Viking ** Boeing-Stearman Model 75 ** Douglas SBD Dauntless ** Grumman F4F W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Laffey (DD-724)
USS ''Laffey'' (DD-724) is an , which was constructed during World War II, laid down and launched in 1943, and commissioned in February 1944. The ship earned the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die" for her exploits during the D-Day invasion and the Battle of Okinawa when she successfully withstood a determined assault by conventional bombers and the most unrelenting ''kamikaze'' air attack in history. Today, ''Laffey'' is a U.S. National Historic Landmark and is preserved as a museum ship at Patriots Point, outside Charleston, South Carolina. ''Laffey'' was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Bartlett Laffey. Seaman Laffey was awarded the Medal of Honor for his stand against Confederate forces on 5 March 1864. Construction and commission ''Laffey's'' keel was laid down on 28 June 1943 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched on 21 November; sponsored by Ms. Beatrice F. Laffey, daughter of Seaman Laffey; and commissioned on 8 February 1944, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Clamagore (SS-343)
USS ''Clamagore'' (SS-343) was a submarine, which operated as a museum ship at the Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum outside Charleston, South Carolina from 1979 to 2022. Built in 1945 for the United States Navy, she was still in training when World War II ended. She was named for the clamagore. A National Historic Landmark, she was the last surviving example of a GUPPY III type submarine. On 15 October 2022,the USS CLAMAGORE,stripped of sail and superstructure was removed from Patriots Point and towed to Norfolk VA to begin final recycling. Construction ''Clamagore'' was built by Electric Boat Co. in Groton, Connecticut near the end of World War II. She was launched on 25 February 1945 and sponsored by Miss Mary Jane Jacobs, daughter of Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs and commissioned on 28 June 1945, with Commander S.C. Loomis, Jr., taking command. Operational history ''Clamagore'' was first assigned to Key West, Florida, and reported there on 5 September 1945. She o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
_at_Patriots_Point_2006.jpg "Click for more on -> Patriots Point")
