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From: james@wrs.com (James Moore)
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Subject: Re: Harpoon
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Date: 18 Dec 90 19:06:08 GMT
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I thought Harpoon had the potential to be a very good game, but I
returned it to my local software store the day after I bought it.  Out
of six or so games I started, I could only finish one, and that was
with scenario #1.  All of the others crashed at some point, usually
about ten to twenty minutes into the game.  This was running on a
Plus, with 2.5 megs, running regular finder, system 6.0.5, no inits
(took all of them out of the system folder), and Disinfectant 2.3
didn't report any viruses.

I was disappointed that I had to bring it back, because while it
stayed up it was entertaining.  It's gawdawful slow on a Plus in the
later scenarios, which is unfortunately understandable (although an
option to turn off some level of detail in exchange for speed would be
nice).

I'll probably buy 1.1 when (and if) it comes out.
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