Harpoon is a realistic real-time tactics game that emphasizes quick and accurate decision making. It is based on a miniature table top game by Larry Bond. Harpoon is a game in which the player is the commander of either NATO or Soviet forces, making judgment calls and sending orders to ships and aircraft, armed with weapon systems selected from more than 100 available options.[1] The game mainly focuses on combat in the GIUK Gap.
SimulatorStrategyWarfaremodern warfarebattleshipairplanemodern militarysubmarinenaval warfarePC-9800 Series, Mac, DOS, Amiga
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Earnest, plot-driven, grave and cool.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- Platforms
- PC-9800 Series, Mac, DOS, Amiga
- Developer
- Applied Computing Services
- Publisher
- Three-Sixty Pacific, Imagineer, Personal Software Services
- Released
- December 17, 1989
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric, Text
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