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I was never a big fan of his writing or politics, but the original Harpoon computer game (based on the tabletop game he was partially responsible for) stands as
by Tloewald 13y ago
I was never a big fan of his writing or politics, but the original Harpoon computer game (based on the tabletop game he was partially responsible for) stands as one of the best computer wargames I've ever played.
- fredsanford 13y agoIIRC, it wasn't Clancy that had anything to do with the creation of Harpoon. It was Larry Bond, who was an uncredited (I think) co-author on the early Clancy books. Bond and Clancy used Harpoon to help visualize the naval battles in the first few books. A side note... I was chosen as the developer to port Harpoon to OS/2 in the early '90s but the company I worked for backed out. It pissed me off enough that I changed jobs. Anyway, I still have a few unopened boxes of the Harpoon software floating around here, which were handed to me by Gordon Walton himself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon_(series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon_(series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bond http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bond