Lost Atari 2600 Dune Prototype Discovered

Posted by simoniker on Friday October 3, 2003 @11:45PM 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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It could have been good. by AtariAmarok · 2003-10-04 03:15 · Score: 2, Interesting

It could have been good, you know. Remember the imminently fun Atari 2600 version of "Superman". Compare this to the much better looking for very dull (flying Supes through the deserted city gets old) "Superman" game on the N-64.

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Only one Dune game... by freeBill · 2003-10-04 13:44 · Score: 2, Interesting

...will ever matter: Eon's multiplayer board game.

Quite possibly the best multiplayer game ever designed. It did an outstanding job of reproducing the political intrigue that made the book interesting.

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