Depthcharge

For the anti-submarine weapon, see depth charge.

For other uses, see Depth charge (disambiguation).

Depthcharge is a black-and-white submarine simulator arcade video game released in 1977 by Gremlin Industries. The game shows a side view of a section of ocean with a destroyer on the surface and submarines passing beneath it. The player-controlled destroyer can be moved left and right and drop depth charges to destroy the submarines below.

Depthcharge
Developer(s)	Gremlin
Publisher(s)	Gremlin
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	September 1977[1]
Genre(s)	Submarine simulator
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Up to four submarines may be present at any given time, each of which bears a score for destroying it that increases with its depth. Submarines release mines which the player-controlled ship must avoid by moving out of their path.

Similar arcade games

• Periscope (Namco/Sega, 1965)
• Sea Wolf (Midway, 1976)
• Depthbomb (ディプスボンブ) (Sega, 1978)
• Sub Hunter (サブハンター) (Taito)
• Submarine (サブマリン) (Data East)
• Deep Scan (Sega, 1979)

Clones

• Depth Charge (Apple II, 1978)
• Depthcharge (Commodore 64, 1983)
• Sub Chase (ZX Spectrum, 1983)
• Submarine (ZX Spectrum, 1984)
• Depth Charge (ZX Spectrum, 1984)
• Sub Hunt (Commodore 64, 1984)
• Depth Charge (MS-DOS, 1984), text-based game
• Sub Attack (Commodore 64, 1985)
• Depthcharge (Amiga, 1994)