Last Crusade was one of the most ambitious of the LucasArts adventure games, and while some prefer The Fate of Atlantis- the company's other Indy adventure game- both stand side by side as the best Indiana Jones games ever made as well as some of the best games of all time, period. There's also the matter of players encountering Adolf Hitler himself during the game and, in a rarity for a video game Hitler appearance, doesn't end with his head violently exploding. As anyone who has seen the Last Crusade movie knows, setting plays a key role in the story of Indiana Jones and his father going after the fabled Holy Grail. There can be just as much value to a video game that uses WWII more as the backdrop for its story than taking place directly within the war itself. But these lists should sometimes be about honoring important games regardless of whether or not they "hold up," and to that end, Silent Service's places in the pantheons of both WWII game and sim game history in general are well earned. In fact, its 1990 sequel improved and streamlined most aspects of the game, and definitely looked a whole lot better. The incredibly slow pace of the game- even for a sub-based game- and obtuse nature of the control systems make Silent Service a difficult game to appreciate today.
While looking for Japanese water craft, players were tasked with worrying about even tiny details like whether they were hidden enough so as not to produce surface bubbles.
Incredibly realistic for its time (1985), Silent Service allowed patient players the chance to take control of a submarine as it made its patrol rounds in the Pacific Ocean. Before becoming a nerd household name with games like Pirates! and Civilization, one of the games that legendary designer Sid Meier cut his teeth on was this ahead-of-its-time WWII submarine simulator.
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