An excellent game, even by today’s standards. The floppy disk version though was just as captivating, but those Spice demands were tough. It was a stunning game, with the later CD version having stills and clips from the film as well as speech. You played as Paul Atreides, managing mining the Spice production, the Fremen, and bringing the fight to the Harkonnen to drive them off Dune. “He who controls the Spice, controls the universe.” Dune for DOS was a great adventure strategy game that followed the novel quite closely.
Interestingly, the shareware title was available from the BBS of Leeds Trinity and All Saints University, just as the next one was… 47. Dune
It may not stand up to modern gaming in terms of the graphics, but it was an ace little addictive game that you couldn’t stop playing. The first episode has you rescuing eight sages, who will help you stop the Shikadi from destroying the galaxy. Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy was the third game in the Commander Keenseries, and one of the more popular.
