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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How close to the movie? by Kris_J · 2003-10-04 00:23 · Score: 0, Troll

Does it have the annoying voice-overs that try to pack in narrative elements from the book that are more or less unecessary in the movie? (I'm assuming this is the Dune movie with a young Sting and an even younger Patrick Stewart.)