| Larry Bond first developed the board game "Harpoon" in
1980. As Larry states, it was "designed as a general-purpose
air, surface, and submarine naval simulation". Harpoon "combines
playability with a wealth of information on modern naval weapons systems". Although
it was originally to be for the entry-level gamer, it is used at several
of the military "trade schools".
As a computer game, Harpoon has been hampered in recent years by
the bankruptcy of 360 Pacific in 1996. But there remains a big
following and the best available resource for Harpoon fans is Dr.
Who's Harpoon Page. At this page is information on both
of the Harpoon computer games which were first brought out in 1990
and 1994. Harpoon II, which appeared in 1994, was also republished
in 1996 by EIDOS and remains available in bargain bins and other
secondary computer game retailers. Harpoon II has been dramatically
extended through database and scenario additions constructed by
Harpooners around the World. Dr. Who's page includes much of
these extensions. The current version of the game is Harpoon 4.
 On
November 12, 1997, Stratgic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) announced that
they would code Larry Bond's latest Harpoon board game for computers. SSI
was purchased by Ubi Soft and the game
(Harpoon 4) will be released in October of 2003. The game web
site is here.
Order this game from amazon.com by following this link.
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