Three-Sixty Pacific is a video game publisher and developer

Software developer

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. Founded in the late 1980s by avid wargamers and military history enthusiasts.

Games

They have developed the most popular naval game ever (according to MobyGames

MobyGames

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) called Harpoon

Harpoon (video game)

Harpoon is a computer game developed by Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc. in 1989 for the PC/MS-DOS. This was the first game in the Harpoon series.-Plot:...

(1989) (a masterpiece based on Larry Bond's tabletop wargame that was inducted into Computer Gaming 150 Best Games of All Time and is still regarded today as the best naval simulation ever produced), Harpoon 2 (1992), and Harpoon 3. They also made the ever popular Theatre of War (1992), which is considered one of the first multiplayer RTS

Real-time strategy

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 games of all time.

They developed a World War II naval strategy game called "Victory at Sea

Victory at Sea

Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952–1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. The music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, was re-recorded and sold as record albums...

" (1993) which was a Mac (only?) computer game.

They published the game Dark Castle

Dark Castle

Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software, later ported to various platforms, where it was published by Three-Sixty Pacific...

 in 1987 and Armor Alley

Armor Alley

Armor Alley is a computer game for MS-DOS and Mac OS, with gameplay patterned after the Apple II game Rescue Raiders. Play is against either the computer or other humans in a LAN environment. The game supports cooperative multiplayer of up to two players per side.The player controls a helicopter...

 in 1990, both for the Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 computer.

Other games published: Thud Ridge: American Aces In 'Nam

Thud Ridge: American Aces In 'Nam

Thud Ridge: American Aces in 'Nam is a computer game developed by Three-Sixty Pacific in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and PC/MS-DOS.-Plot:Thud Ridge is a combat flight simulator that allows the player to pilot a Republic F-105 Thunderchief —a “Thud“—during the Vietnam War. The player must contend with...

 (1987/88), Das Boot

Das Boot

Das Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann...

 (1992), Blue Max: Aces of the Great War (1990/91), Beyond Dark Castle

Beyond Dark Castle

Beyond Dark Castle is a computer game, released for the Macintosh in 1987 by Silicon Beach Software. It was designed by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay. It is the sequel to Dark Castle, with more levels, monsters and items, as well as a larger game map and longer levels...

 (1989), High Command: Europe 1939-1945 (1992), Megafortress

Megafortress

Megafortress is a flight simulation video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and released by Three-Sixty Pacific Inc in 1991. The player takes command of the fictional EB-52 Megafortress created by the military and espionage novelist Dale Brown....

 (1992), Patriot (1993), Sands of Fire (1990).

Their last projects were the V for Victory

V for Victory

For information about the victory sign, see V sign#The V campaign and the victory/freedom sign.V for Victory is a series of turn-based strategy games, set during World War II.Four games were produced in the series:* V for Victory: D-Day Utah Beach...

series (