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Dune 2 was great, but Dune 1 was even better. It will forever have a warm place in my heart. A completely different game, though.

petercooper 6y ago
Dune 1 is probably the most atmospheric 90s DOS game I've played. There are few games that will sweep you into a world like that.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
  Star Control 2 immediately sprang to mind.
  - aidenn0 6y ago
    Being compared to SC2 is all the recommendation I need for playing a game.
- crocal 6y ago
  The game was developed by Philip Ulrich, already behind the Ark of Captain Blood. The guy is a genius. This [1] is a short video of him explaining how the game was developed, alas in French only. [1] https://youtu.be/5nHX_74mjss https://youtu.be/5nHX_74mjss
  - Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
    What kind of person can block video titled "Dune : il faut sauver la planète des sables | Retrogaming Made in France | ARTE" from being viewed in certain countries?!
    - MayeulC 6y ago
      Arte itself, maybe? I hit this quite frequently in the opposite direction. Try invidio.us, or duckduckgo. A VPN as a last resort. Or other channels.. I'd have uploaded it, but my upload is very slow today... The documentary is nice, if a bit short. The target is a general audience, so you might not be missing out that much.
    - blondin 6y ago
      i second that! this is ridiculous. i am subscribed to many french channels but i have no idea why arte would ever block this video... the kind of things that only happens to music videos
    - baud147258 6y ago
      It's not unusual for videos from public TV networks to be region-locked, I think under the premise that it's funded by the tax-payers from a country, so those can get that content for free, but not people from other countries.
- dpio 6y ago
  Dune 1 fan here too. I will never forget the thrill of taking over a sietch with overwhelming force.
slim 6y ago
It was great indeed, if you did not wait forever for charcters to animate on the screen. At the time, I finished the game in like 1h after installing a TSR that accelerated the clock speed.
dmichulke 6y ago
... with the most fascinating thing being that it starts as RPG and ends as kinda turn based strategy. Also, it's a great intro to the Dune lore...
pier25 6y ago
Loved it. It was one of the first DOS games I played back in the early 90s as a young teenager. Probably the first CD-ROM game we owned too. My brother and I had to sneak into my father's office to play it. At the time we were still playing video games on an old Sony MSX from the 80s and we didn't own our own DOS PC until a year or two later.
Braini 6y ago
Here is a very nice set of articles about the book, movie and both games by the digital antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-1-dune-on-page-and-screen/ https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-1-... https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-cryos-dune/ https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-... https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-westwoods-dune/ https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-...

petercooper 6y ago

Dune 1 is probably the most atmospheric 90s DOS game I've played. There are few games that will sweep you into a world like that.

Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
Star Control 2 immediately sprang to mind.
- aidenn0 6y ago
  Being compared to SC2 is all the recommendation I need for playing a game.
crocal 6y ago
The game was developed by Philip Ulrich, already behind the Ark of Captain Blood. The guy is a genius. This [1] is a short video of him explaining how the game was developed, alas in French only. [1] https://youtu.be/5nHX_74mjss https://youtu.be/5nHX_74mjss
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
  What kind of person can block video titled "Dune : il faut sauver la planète des sables | Retrogaming Made in France | ARTE" from being viewed in certain countries?!
  - MayeulC 6y ago
    Arte itself, maybe? I hit this quite frequently in the opposite direction. Try invidio.us, or duckduckgo. A VPN as a last resort. Or other channels.. I'd have uploaded it, but my upload is very slow today... The documentary is nice, if a bit short. The target is a general audience, so you might not be missing out that much.
  - blondin 6y ago
    i second that! this is ridiculous. i am subscribed to many french channels but i have no idea why arte would ever block this video... the kind of things that only happens to music videos
  - baud147258 6y ago
    It's not unusual for videos from public TV networks to be region-locked, I think under the premise that it's funded by the tax-payers from a country, so those can get that content for free, but not people from other countries.
dpio 6y ago
Dune 1 fan here too. I will never forget the thrill of taking over a sietch with overwhelming force.

slim 6y ago

It was great indeed, if you did not wait forever for charcters to animate on the screen. At the time, I finished the game in like 1h after installing a TSR that accelerated the clock speed.

dmichulke 6y ago

... with the most fascinating thing being that it starts as RPG and ends as kinda turn based strategy. Also, it's a great intro to the Dune lore...

pier25 6y ago

Loved it. It was one of the first DOS games I played back in the early 90s as a young teenager. Probably the first CD-ROM game we owned too. My brother and I had to sneak into my father's office to play it. At the time we were still playing video games on an old Sony MSX from the 80s and we didn't own our own DOS PC until a year or two later.

Braini 6y ago

Here is a very nice set of articles about the book, movie and both games by the digital antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-1-dune-on-page-and-screen/ https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-1-... https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-cryos-dune/ https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-... https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-westwoods-dune/ https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-...