![]() Sold without accompanying miniatures, it could be played with just pencil and graph paper. Wells Award for Best Miniatures Game of 1981. Once off active duty, Bond contacted Adventure Games, Inc to publish the game. Then he and his shipmates play-tested it for the next two years while assigned to the destroyer, USS McKean. NAVTAG only came in a classified version and took three computers to play, limiting its utility.Īccording to, Bond thought he could do better and decided to create an all-purpose air, surface, and submarine simulation accessible to the general public. Using unclassified sources, Bond developed the rules and did the various calculations for what would become Harpoon, then Bond wrote up the original game in a week. NAVTAG was the digitized successor to the manual pen and paper SEA control Tactical Analysis Game (SEATAG). Indeed, the game did not spring Athena-like from Larry Bonds head.Īccording to, the then twenty-four-year-old Naval Lieutenant Junior Grade Larry Bond, encountered the US Navys official computer wargame, NAVal TActical Game (NAVTAG) in 1976. But everything comes from something else and Harpoon was no exception. I even invested in an upgraded computer to play it.Īt that point, I had no idea that the marvelous game I spent literally days playing was based on a tabletop and miniatures game. The naval simulation received raved reviews and I, like many other military officers and others interested in modern naval warfare, rushed out to buy the game. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The Personal Computer version of Harpoon was released for the DOS operating system in 1989 by Three-Sixty Pacific and it took the gaming world by (Red) Storm (Rising). Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]()
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