Harrier Attack on the Amstrad CPC

[stuartbrett]

This game was epic.... until your little brother pressed the Esc key and ruined everything! :)

[motabbirh]

I had an amstrad cpc 464 back in 89 I remember playing this game

[hello20101977]

Old Skool..........pure memories

[ephabouyed]

Do you know where you can download this?

[psyfirefly]

@ephabouyed search for harrier attack on cpcwiki dot eu

[cuntstubbl]

i swapped scalectric for a 464 it had a green monitor but still loved that game soon got board and swapped back, i was destined to be a petrol head geek not a gamer geek

[orangedac]

I remember playing this game on some console system my cousing had called an Oric or something back in the 80s.

I'd man the bombs, my brother the missiles and my cousin flew.

They don't make em like they used to....

[Jermyn78]

I've got this game on my iPhone (Albeit the Speccy version). Brought back a lot of memories.

[TheSisko1]

loved me amstrad cpc 464, only down fall was i had the green screen not the colour. i loved harrier attack.

[drfan2004]

brings back some memories.Harrier attack was part of a suite of games that came with the Amstrad CPC 464 Oh Mummy was another game too

[kd84afc]

I used to play this all the time on my amstrad lol  always used to remember it took ages to load and I didnt have the colour monitor so it was in the green all the time...

[felixinderby]

surely one of the first games i ever played - always loved gettin to the houses bit at the end at the end and bombing the crap out of them. stone cold classic.

[TheScumfrog]

Ah... the memories.

[Lukazan]

I remember playing this as a 5 year old boy. The sound of the harrier crashing/blowing up used to make me shit myself every time..

[greekantonis]

mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn hes a crap flyer id kick his arse in 1987

[suedescentedsin]

I used to play this with my dad... he'd always be so annoyed when I bombed the boat we were meant to land on. Tee hee.

[vrz07]

these computer games are an absolute embarrasment compared to the games of today. i cant believe i was so addicted to them. The most frustrating thing was the constant freezing and crashing of the games was a common problem deemed as normal routine in those days.

[jamesstafforduk]

I remember I always bombed my own boat when I took off. I was so upset the first time I finished the first level (I was only about 6) and there was no plane to land on!

[BlockbustersTom]

Love this game.

[nlomas]

AWESOME! it was worth the 10 mins it took to load

[1973Redwall]

Nostalgia overload!

[joshua1ba]

i have one of these with about 70 games! :D

the annoying part is that it takes 10 mins to loads a game up =.='

[Thyrill]

hat damals laune gemacht

deswegen erinnere ich mich daran

[computermaster]

Played this around 1988- an amazing game- got hooked on it and even my dad liked this!

[RevanFlashman]

First game i loaded up christmas day 1984......took a while though.

[WhitUK1st]

oh my god this takes me back a few years!!! although i can never remember how to land the plane, i dont think i ever managed it. do you remember sultans maze haha good times !

[x2REPx]

@WhitUK1st 17 minutes to load if i remember correctly.

[bobv6]

aha i used to have this as a wee boy , takes me back

[JOCKATEO]

this game was made about the falklands war

[fallenangel3001]

I thought this was Tom Clancys Hawx on the Nintendo DS for a moment

[voon100]

LOL @ the end. You deliberately fucked up the landing just like me when I got bored.

I experimented with bombing the carrier at the beginning, when completed the mission the carrier is there anymore , you left with no where to land and eventually run out of fuel.

[hscstar]

Bomb your boat at the start. Then see if they want to pick you up.

[TheDarkredevil]

no entiendo como podeis pasar tiempo de vuestra preciada vida jugando a esa mierda

[Radderz22]

holy cow this was my fav game ever!

[sikhman100]

shocking this shitty little but evocative game gets 14,000 views and the legendary datasoft title bruce lee only has 3000.

I guess cos it came free with the amstrad all you little nickle and dime peons got to play it. Hang your head in shame lomax.

[MitkoChan]

@sikhman100 The game was mint. And the Bruce Lee one was wank, dingding.

[sikhman100]

@MitkoChan say dont u have enough problems with a 2 inch weenie, to be on here looking for a fight hop sheng?

[sikhman100]

@MitkoChan why dont u get back home to the brothel your chinkie momma is running and go and stick some peking duck up your daddys ass and fuck off back to hong kong u illegal asylum seeking chinkie cunt ...have a bath too. dingding

[MitkoChan]

@sikhman100 lolumad? I'm not Chinese, or even Asian, dimwit. Apologies for filling you with impotent rage. Nevermind kid, one day it will stop hurting.

[olynxmano]

Hm.....

I used to play this game up and down and from the left to the right, back in the 80s . But I don't know why ;)

[DAVIDUK2381]

Curious little game. Loved bombing the town at the end of the levels! CRRRRRR!

[FoetopsY82]

good times in a dark room :)

[vimtolove]

What was that game where you was the floating ball on the spaceship and you had to fix the holes in the pipes?

Or the one where you had to collect broken pieces of glass after a party?

ANYONE :)

[sleinad]

Oh man. Seriously nostalgia. I feel like pressing CTRL and ENTER...

[szipucsu]

Nice video but the game seems so hard...

[HonestJack]

This game rocked. Just listening to the sound effects takes me back years! Thanks for posting!

[ifedthehorse]

OMG! I used to play this game and I was actually an age at the time....  hard to believe! I think it was somewhere between the ages of 0 and 120.

[urbanlemon]

Christ, I was about 4 when I used to play this!

[innitdoe1979]

aww man.. serious nostagia. i used to love this game!! feel like im 9 again! lets bomb a city!.. woo!!

[Fugsy07]

Oh wow does this bring back memories of when i was a kid

[iddn]

jeez man, look at the tearing going on. ha! old school!

[legogenius]

This was probably the first game I got up and running on the CPC464 as a kid. What's crazy is that I can remember the SMELL of my newly manufactured Amstrad just watching this video. I know, weird.

[tarkonis]

I used to have a mate called Barry Elcoat and he said his uncle wrote this game.

[Bollocks681]

Fuckin hell!!! I used to spend hours playing on this, I would only have been 6 or 7 at the time.

[kozas0]

I remember playing that. And it was bad :( Nemesis was much better.

[ozpc123]

LOL nice landing

[kmp3000]

That bloody boat at the start. lol

[Jermyn78]

That boat at the start what shoots the missile, I used to take out the missile with one of mine, then shoot another missile into the boat before flying to a low eough level to bomb it twice!

[FordPerfect]

@Jermyn78

thats exactly how to do it. =)

and once you get to the city: fly as low as possible and hit the spacebar like a maniac.

[Jermyn78]

Yep, and if you were able to, get higher than an enemy plane and bomb it!

[dagbli]

GOOD PLAYED HAHA!!! :-) With a nice landing in the end :-D

[stupedpindos]

There was a similar game with proper sprites in mode 0, forgot the name

[bopkick5]

ya know wot.  i wel rememba playin dis game alot in da ole dayz . in around 1986 . itz certanly a very good game. me an mi mates used ta compete 4 pointz but i dont rememba wot mi world record iz but mi mate dave used ta beet me i rememba, i dont know wot he'z doin now an mi other mate paul used ta have a ti994a computer which woz just de tops an i rememba i couldnt believe how great it woz an i alwyz wanted one . but hav ta say the cpc464 woz great tho an i used ta play games like knightlore

[PrinceBishop3]

I loved it too. Durell made AWESOME games, saboteur, attack Lynx, turbo esprit etc, I think they are still in business in a minor capacity. I raise my glass to Durell!

[GUMBOOTS9]

awesome game. watch out for the "flack". When you became a master of this you would do stuff like flying really low and trying to get through just using missiles to blast the tanks !! great stuff . . also think i used to blast my own aircraft carrier to pieces sometimes just for the hell of it.

[N1nJAGoAT]

One my faves of all time this :)

[alex76gr]

Harrier Attack is one of my all time favorites on CPC.

I was very good at it and i still can make great scores whenever i fire it up!

[lopsidedbunnybunny]

The coolest game ever you could use your bombs to bomb the enemy fighter planes. I finished this too, god it was nerve-racking towards the end.

[ubascouser]

what a classic could never get passed the city but i was only about 6

[argylemagic]

PMSL @ 03:10 - that happened to me every single time!!

[graveheart1138]

Classic Ending!!! Happened to me so many times!! lol

[benjiscott82]

rofl!!!

[BarbaricAvatar]

You forgot to save a bomb for the boat at the end!

[TARTANTERR0R]

Ahh!!!! The good old days

[slackerZ550LTD]

Tapping space once to take off then letting rip with the torpedoes and bombs as you destroy the flightdeck and blast your way through the command tower of the ship was always a pleasure of mine.

Then skimming along the water water to missile your way literally through the enemy boat (as long as collision detection recognised your missile hitting theirs first).

Then after bombing the shit out of the civilians ejecting just before crashing for an extra 1000 points.

I've wasted my life lol

[greekantonis]

@slackerZ550LTD a man after my own words just fly at low level take all the shit out lol

[Lukazan]

Ahhhhh memories. Loved this game, although I was hopeless at it.

Used to always scare me when you blew up too haha.

[PeterBeardsleysKid]

Ive just spunked all over my keyboard!

[Kieronoldham]

God this game takes me back to when I was about 5 years old! The flashing colours in the border of the screen couldve given you epilepsy!

[jondavidgriffin]

you're fuckin shit m8! lol

[ninelivecat]

Thats shit they made no effort at all to utilise either the CPC's extra colours or improve the sound just ported the code directly over from the ZX Spectrum Cheap

and Crap

[tonywob]

Ahhh, what a classic :-)

[s1wilco79]

ahhh the days of buying your computer games in tape cassette format!! So realistic - you almost felt like you were sitting in the cockpit!

[Nayson]

I adored this game as a kid.

We used to have our own two player rules when one person would be the bomber, and the other the pilot and in charge of missiles. Oh, and I seem to recall you could fly through the flak with impunity. Dodging it was pointless.

[daithi28]

HA HA HA HA I want my amstrad back with my green screen! HA HA

[canadaonly2]

oh man. i remember this. Weird; i havent heard the noises for around 10 years but i stilll remembered them exactly; the odd white noise explosions etc. my fav game when i was younger, but i only got to the buildings like once because i wasa retard and shit.

[LordAkira]

What made it so good was the waiting for it and when it finally loaded you were over the moon

[WhiteRAZOR]

I remember bombing my own ship right after you take off... then when you come back to land on it, it's not there and you keep flying over flat water until you run out of fuel and crash :(

[Hindleyak]

Bombing the buildings at the end was always an awesome bit.

[clancyi]

I loved this game when I was young! Thanks for that.. loved the crash at the end :-)

[Krapvag]

the front covers to these games were spectacular explosions of colour and action, and this is what took an hour to load.

Loved playing this game though, and the Covenant (even though it was impossible to complete)

[qahwaji123]

I loved this game when I was a kid my dad did not like it when I beat his score

[Robbrail]

Great game and it's so funny when the crash sounds happen!

[Akaoni21]

My favourite game on the Amstrad... Only 5 mins to load and it was damn good too!

[bennith]

wow this was my favourite game!

[JaguarEarlobe]

thats so nostalgic it makes me want ot be sick

I'd forgotten the ejecting bit

Bloody sound is rediculous. Do you remember that old screatching scratchy sound the comp used to make when you were loading it up.

Get so pissed off waiting for it to load

[XXXXShelts]

my best ever on this was 165000

[SimonDolan]

We got 12 games free with ours but this was the best - better than boring Timeman One!

[StealthModeLondon]

SUPERB! I Remember that i used to play this for so long that when I looked away from the screen EVERYTHING looked green and blue lol!

[storemeister]

I still have my copy of this. Used to love wrecking the carrier on take-off

[davembodd]

i sold mien, gutted now

[Danbotology]

Lol @ the ending.

Great little game, great memories...

[bruvajon]

So many memories!

[Jzzy26]

Absolutely loved this game. Always used to press the escape button when my mate was playing to eject the pilot lol

[tinsley77]

does seem wierd in colour, couldn't play it now with the sound on how annoying is that

[ollieraison]

best game!! Used to play it so much. Although whoever is playing on this video missed a shitload of points!!

[nickdc1]

Yeah these CPC games seem strange in colour. Out of the free games I likd this, Oh Mummy and Roland in the Caves...

This game though it was cool to fly through the buidings and cut them in two!

[efthymiosportorafti]

memories. i think 1986 with my amstrad 6128. green monitor. great game. the enemy planes looks like f14. it was my fav game. thanx 4 vid. thanx for these good old memories

[farrellphil]

whatch out for the flak!!!!!! great game

[73in83]

It's the town.... SPACE BAR SPACE BAR SPACE BAR!

[GuruCube]

@73in83

Oh, the hollow plastic sound of my childhood!

*TAP*TAP*TAP*TAP*TAP*TAP*

[kdwright06]

@73in83 best youtube comment ever lol!

[dyingfly]

You could also bomb the carrier after take off. Unfortunately it meant you couldnt land anywhere on the otherr side. Still got my 464 and it still works!!!

[lopsidedbunnybunny]

I also just remember that you could bomb the enemy planes if you missed it with your rocket.

[lopsidedbunnybunny]

Ace I did actually compete this without getting killed I think there about three to four levels. I forget now.

[voon100]

LMAO @ the end when you completed the mission and deliberately cash the Harrier.

I use to do kamikaze style mission where by I fly low, used the remaining rockets to penetrate buildings at near the end of the mission.

[GUMBOOTS9]

brilliant thanks brings back memories. i can picture myself playing it back in the day with a big plastic glass of Vimto.

[jsothera]

I had this, if I remember you could attack your own ship.

you held the space bar down when going over the town to bomb the shit out of em.

[MrHoppyX]

Harrier Attack is awesome.

[andyukmonkey]

I much prefered roland on the ropes to this.

[81runFROMwhat]

this was a great game. the amstrad came with some cool games. my personal fave was probably roland on the ropes.

[egreydesign1]

i loved that game...i wish i had my old amstrad again

[bloggsy990]

I'm afraid you score of 17,960 doesn't cut the mustard. Check out my score of 23,600 on my video called "Harrier Attack (Spectrum version)".

[Dentolux]

I kinda liked this game back in the day. Maybe cos most of the games which came with the machine weren't all that hot. Bridge it? Yuck.