Harpoon gameplay (PC Game, 1989)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Gameplay for Harpoon, Dos PC game produced by Three-Sixty Pacific in 1989 - www.squakenet.c...
Engaging in naval combat in this classic maritime strategy simulator.
Played through Dosbox emulation platform.
Recorded with original sound.
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Oh man. Great series of games but always such a HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS to run properly on PCs of that era.
One of the main reasons I joined the navy later in the 90's.
@WhomItMayConcern Ha! 😁
I used to play the heavy scenarios, with multiple carrier groups, regimental numbers of Soviet Naval Aviation, etc., knowing they would probably lock up, just on the 1 in 10 chance of playing the scenario through. It made you play aggressively, because the more enemy units you destroyed in the big simulations, the less processing power the game needed.
I spent many enjoyable hours with this game Many years ago. I wish they would make a new version.
You're welcome, James. Game is expensive, but right up your alley; Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
Anyone plays in 2020, like me? First time i bought this game in 1993-1994 on Amiga 500. Now i use to play Commander's Edition :)
I remeber this game. Now I’m 40 years old.
So many hours playing this game.
Thanks for the upload
I didn't know English very well back when I first played this game. But somehow, when I was five years old, I managed to sink my first NATO ship. When this music started playing I was like: "Oh God, it's so awesome and inspirational!" I didn't even know it was the Soviet Anthem, figured it out after hearing it on the news a couple of years later. Hearing it again just gave me an eargasm.
Haha, same here (I was about 15 though), it made me love soviet anthem.
Haha, same here (I was about 15 though), it made me love soviet anthem.
This video flashes me back.
I kept a 2002 PC just so I could play classic Harpoon. Three years ago it finally had a hard drive failure and that was the end of my Harpoon gaming.
I loved it so much , ordered it in another country because I couldn't get it in mine, took two weeks to come but when I started to play , I couldn't stop.
Oh my god, I tried playing this game as a young child of 7 or 8 in the 90s on the Macintosh SE and I was so confused.
Yeah, probably a game more targeted for adult audience
man i used to love playing this game and another oldie i think it was called the big three
I played the shiskebab out of this back in 1990 or so.
Lawrence and I played this in 1992.
I think my dad and I played this to death. Still has his AMIGA 2000HD and the game
i had the amiga version of this game such a great naval sim loved it why isnt this on gog yet?
I remember the windows ui like msdosshell from MS-DOS
Interestingly missile launch effect is better in old version, a proper sound and relatively observable launch animation. In version 97 and HCE, just quick "phew" sound and you see a very quick animation. Do not fix, if it is not broken...
Game helped me get my esws pin back when nobody had one.
Great game I love harpoon. But I recommend the Amiga version. It sounds far better.
Completely i agree!
Harpoon II was pretty HC.
Great game and many sleepless night
It was fun blanketing the Atlantic Ocean with sonobuoys with the P-3C Orions (not sure of the name) in search of Soviet subs.
Hi, how exactly did you run this? In a dosbox in Windows or what?
ghanaboyz Yes, you'll need dosbox: www.squakenet.com/guides/dosbox-basic-usage
Squakenet Thanks. Seems to work good.
This is the game that Tom Clancy used as his information source for the Hunt for Red October?
Harpoon was a war game created by Larry Bond, and used as a non-classified alternative for NAVTAG, the war game used to train officers at that time. He released it to the general public successfully, where Tom Clancy was able to use it for research on the Hunt for the Red October (which is why larry bond is credited in the version of the book i have, atleast), and also what he used to play out scenarios in Clancy's later book, Red Storm Rising, which Bonds co-wrote. After the success Clancy and the board game had, Sid Meiers (yes, the one from civ) wrote a game based on the war game that was later refined into what you are watching. So yes, it was used to help research the Hunt for Red October, but was featured more prominently in Red Storm Rising.
Aaand then it crashed...