bruceh@mentor.com (Bruce Holm) (05/04/90)
From article <2804@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, by jedi@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Jedi Knight): > > Around December of last year, a friend and I spied an advertisment > for the computer version of the Harpoon boardgame. We called > Three-Sixty software to get a release date, and they mentioned around > Feb. of this year. > > It's April. Anyone out there know when the release date is? If at all? > I know the IBM version was buggy, so maybe that is what is holding up > the macintosh release date. Yes, I called them about a week ago. They say it will be ready within about a month. I understood that there is a fair amount (more than they expected) of changes that must be done to convert to the Mac. I got ahold of their technical person phone number and asked specifics about what the game will be like and it sounds HOT!!! It has many types of ships, most all types of world naval and airforce aircraft types. It has two map views, one for task force movement and one for close in ship by ship orders giving. They claim that the computer player simulates the actual moves of real world miliataries that military experts have called in to tell them how very realistic the game is. Aircraft perform maneuvers that are very real. It sounds like the game has a very extensive database of military ships and planes that it is build on. Should be good reading material if nothing else. If you want the tech number (different than the Three-Sixty main office) let me know. The cost of this game is thought to be ~$65-70 or ~$45 discounted. Maybe for once a real wargame...not an arcade game. --Bruce -- ** These are my opinions, & not necessarily those of Mentor Graphics Corp. ** Bruce Holm, Design/Analysis Div. / (503) 626-7000 Mentor Graphics Corp. / USENET: bruceh@pdx.MENTOR.COM Beaverton, OR 97005-7191 / UUCP: ...!{sequent,tessi,apollo}!mntgfx!bruceh
ins_apw@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Philip Wong) (05/05/90)
Another game i'd like to know the status of is Oids... Is there a release version availiable or is it only a demo? What's the game like or going to be like? ins_apw@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu