Harrier Combat Simulator (also known as High Roller) is a combat flight simulation game published in 1987 by Mindscape for the Commodore 64. Ports for Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC (as a self-booting disk) followed in 1988.
Plot
The player assumes the role of a pilot in a Harrier-jet. The player must master flying the jet, with its versatile horizontal and vertical thrust capabilities, and learn to control its advanced weaponry as well. The player character is the only jet fighter to survive an attack by saboteurs, and must destroy the enemy headquarters before the Sixth Fleet is destroyed. Most of the missions take place in Grenada; which was undergoing an American-led military invasion during the year 1984.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #131 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. The 1992 Computer Gaming World survey of wargames with modern settings gave the game two stars out of five.
Computer Gaming World rated the game a 2 of 5.
Reviews
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1990
See also
Strike Force Harrier, a 1986 video game by the same designer and publisher, simulating the same aircraft Rowan Software, the company that Rod Hyde founded after designing Harriet Combat Simulator