By Kieron Gillen on October 9th, 2007 at 2:58 pm.
Of all the things I thought I’d be writing about today, announcing a sequel to Durrell’s 1983′s Harrier Attack would have come below Messiah Returns, Cancer Cured or Obsidian Release Game Without Some Crazy Ass Bug in it. Shows what I know.
Durrell’s 1983′s Harrier Attack has a sequel! And a 6.5Mb demo (That’s less than 1 Peggle, so entirely outside the scientific precision of our standard-measurement system for file-sizes, annoyingly). Harrier Attack was actually a forerunner of authentic mili-porn Tom Clancy-ville. Abstractly, just a left-right scrolling shooter, it amped it up with some nods to authenticity, including a Falklands War inspired setting. This sequel follows it, and amps it up even further. This is a left right scrolling shooter where there’s eight tutorials to play to introduce various facets – there’s even a character growth system, key-codes for special abilities (including turning), missions involving hugging the land to avoid radar and… well, it’s different. When playing the demo, to start with, I thought this was going to be just a charity blog post for old time’s sake. But there’s actually something here which reminds me of old Amiga Power favourite Jetstrike and I suspect this could get beneath the skin of a surprising number of you.
09/10/2007 at 15:02 Jim Rossignol says:
Smaller files are measured in Wolfenstein 3Ds, I believe.
09/10/2007 at 15:18 Cargo Cult says:
Not Doom demos?
(Memories of transferring the 2.something MB file from my internet-connected Atari ST to a PC over a null modem cable…)
09/10/2007 at 18:05 dwm says:
Floppy disks? Or perhaps you could use one of these new-fangled decimal “points” my Maths teacher was always telling me about.
09/10/2007 at 20:43 The Sombrero Kid says:
or centi peggles and mill peggles
10/10/2007 at 08:27 Rich Tysoe says:
That’s made my day!
I spent a very large amount of my formative days paying Harrier attack on the my old amstrad CPC.
the game has knackered my taskbar, though. it’s now halfway up the screen.
10/10/2007 at 11:14 Sucram says:
Harrier Attack was quite possibly fantastic, but I last played it when I was about 6 so can’t be sure.
Disappointed that it didn’t seem possible to bomb my own carrier as I took off in this version.