Ports for Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC (as a self-booting disk) followed in 1988.

Harrier Combat Simulator is a game in which the player assumes the role of a pilot in a Harrier-jet.

[6] The player needs to become proficient in flying the jet, including its horizontal and vertical thrust and its advanced weaponry.

[6] Harrier was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #131 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

[7] The Palm Beach Post that year said that the game "would have been a pretty impressive simulator a couple of years ago", but compared to Falcon, Fokker Triplane, Gunship, and F/A-18 Interceptor, Harrier was "primitive" and "silly".