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LuckyJim1001 said:
Waited years for it to come out on Amiga. Had a A500 in back in 1989 I think.

What was the battleset called that involved the Convoys across the pond ? Loved that. C141's out of Norfolk anyone ?
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Wow! Gotta rattle some ancient, rusty, metal cobwebs there. There was an Atlantic or North Atlantic one I think, and an Iceland and/or Greenland UK Gap? Think I started with an A500, then went either to a 3000 or to a 1200 next. Know I had all three at some point. Man! get the walker and the Geritol!!!
 
Harley - Know what you mean. Seems like only last year I was playing board games and cursing at the errata sheet of SPI's Air War.

Wiz33 - Without Googling and not to be pendantic but I love wallowing in nostalgia and have had a glass of wine - wasn't it NACV ?

I ordered it from a a company in the UK called Strategic Plus, which sadly has now departed.

You know the worst thing - I have the Admirals Version on my laptop and could check in a heartbeat but prefer to hear from people who remember this stuff :)
 
Good catch NACV it is.

Oh god. SPI Air War. I remember searching all over town at every game shop when the expansion came out. Just trying to remember the special flight rules of a Harrier gave me headaches ;-P
 
1.5 second turns and 250 feet altitude changes if I recall.

Remember the tutorial, F4 v Mig 17 ? Nice line in it that went 'The F4 has the MIG nicely trapped at his 6 o'clock'

Oh God - the Harrier, with the special section on 'Viffing'.
 
I actually went looking for my Air War box last night but couldn't find it. Found a whole bunch of other SPI and Victory Game boardgames though ;-(.

I started with Foxbat and Phantom so Air War was like going from the original Falcon to Falcon3-4 ;-P
 
Wooohooo...I played HARPOON first on my Amiga500. Wasting much time with waiting - and yes it was really poor grafic.
I liked the detailed database, and later I played it on PC. I only played the GIUK-Scenarios.
So others I wished to have played, but never got them. The Game is still in my mind. It was great for Battleship-Friends.

Maybe I will NWAC give a try.

Greetings to all HARPOON'ers out there :)
DK
 
Started Harpoon Classic when it was free to play on AOL like 15 years ago. Been hooked ever since, including Fleet Command and the matrix versions of Harpoon. And now........NWAC! ;)
 
Pharseer said:
I feel so old. Before there was Harpoon for computer there was a tabletop game created by Larry Bond (Red Storm Rising author).

This game used to be at conventions, and I would enter tournaments and play. Any really old timers remember the tabletop version?

http://theminiaturespage.com/rules/mod/harpoon.html

Loved the computer versions as well, Naval has just always been my thing.
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I, too, played Bond's Harpoon on tabletop. Small correction: Red Storm Rising is by Clancy, who simulated the Atlantic crossings using the tabletop game and thereby discovered the importance of Iceland to NATO strategy.

Naturally, I played computer Harpoon on my XT with all of its 640k RAM and 10 megs of hard drive. I would read a book as my CTFs slowly crawled across the Atlantic. Loved it.
 
Yeah, I played a ton of Gamestorm, which was Kesmai's attempt at a game network. One of my favorite MMORPGs is Legends of Kesmai!!!! Love that game still, guess there is an invite only network that still plays. I really only got on for Air Warrior 3, but stuck around for LoK. After the free Air Warrior went away on AOL, they had the last of my (well, not mine, I was 10, but someones) hard earned money! Did miss Harpoon, but all is well that ends well.
 
Yeo had Harpoon on my Amgia,used to play it and Hunt for Red October.Then 5th Fleet when I got a PC.Still Play 5th Fleet on my PC,the only Avlon Hill compter game I got.Its old but it is the only PC Version of the "Fleet Series" to make it to PC.
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I think you can get it for free now its THAT old.
 
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I "borrowed" the demo of this from my uncle (it was on a 3.5 inch floppy no less) and played it a lot on Windows 3.1 when I was like 7. Fortress Keflavik was the biggest scenario so I spent most time on that (good vibes).

I'm looking forwards to getting NW:AC working because it looks so similar!
 
Yup. I remember playing it on the Amiga, then the 286. A LOOOOONG time back. God, it was frustrating. Got the monster battle going, and then the computer would run out of horsepower, and your whole game would drag to a crawl. Yuck.

Now, I gotta figure out how to run this on a Mac.....
 
Wineskin + 2.5.5 beta wrapper + WS8Wine 1.5.1 engine

Should work absolutely fine without any winetrick additions (assuming you're running OSX Lion 10.7.3 on a 2009 MBP :p)

(minus the lack of scroll-zoom/3D panning&zooming)
 
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