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Lost Atari 2600 Dune Prototype Discovered

Posted by simoniker on from the no-sign-of-sting dept.

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?

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  1. Weirding Modules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When I read the books, I always wondered how the Weirding Modules would be rendered in a video game version.

    Can anybody confirm whether they made it into this prototype?

  2. Those graphics by GuyMannDude · · Score: 2, 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.

    ..."was to be an action/adventure style game similar to Atari's classic Adventure"...

    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

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