



Lost Atari 2600 Dune Prototype Discovered 22
Thanks to AtariAge for its new story revealing a long-lost Atari 2600 prototype for a Dune game has been discovered, almost 20 years after it was scrapped. The game is "based on the 1984 movie of the same name [from Frank Herbert's books]" and "was to be an action/adventure style game similar to Atari's classic Adventure", but, according to an in-depth analysis at AtariProtos.com, "only preliminary coding had been started before Jack Tramiel shut down 2600 game development and fired most of the staff." Still, what other game you know depicts Baron Harkonnen as a smiley face?
Weirding Modules (Score:1, Funny)
Can anybody confirm whether they made it into this prototype?
Re:Weirding Modules (Score:1, Informative)
Ho ho you fraud! The weirding modules were never in ANY of the books, they were a David Lynch Invention(tm) for the movie!
Re:Weirding Modules (Score:2)
They're in the official comic book...
(which is almost completely impossible to understand if you don't already know what's going on)
Re: (Score:2)
How close to the movie? (Score:1, Troll)
Those aren't narrative elements... (Score:2)
Any Dune movie that didn't have some way to represent the internal dialogue wouldn't be a Dune movie.
Early Prototype (Score:3, Insightful)
Heck, if they did not explicitly tell you the game was based on Dune, I wouldn't have known.
It could have been good. (Score:3, Interesting)
Those graphics (Score:3, Funny)
Still, what other game you know depicts Baron Harkonnen as a smiley face?
Yo, peep this: Evil Otto from Berzerk was nothing more than a smiley face and he was one bad ass dope motherfucker that had no problems going all Jet Li down on your punk human ass! You best be showing them smiley face dudes a little more respect, bro.
Considering that the dragon looked an awful lot like a chicken in Adventure, I'd hate to think how those Dune worms would have ended up...
GMD
Boss Smiley (Score:2)
He first appeared in the PREZ comics in the early 1970s from DC.
Re:Those graphics (Score:2)
This is as good a time as any to bring up this:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/main13.html
Hover thy mouse over each button in order, finishing with "e-mail."
Priceless.
Only one Dune game... (Score:3, Interesting)
Quite possibly the best multiplayer game ever designed. It did an outstanding job of reproducing the political intrigue that made the book interesting.
Re:Only one Dune game... (Score:2)
Re:Only one Dune game... (Score:1)
Cryo game 1992 (Score:2)
The best thing about the original game was the atmosphere, helped along by the great soundtrack and the impressive architecture...
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