A500 Dune - Intro

[SamusDrake]

I was blessed to have the PC-CDROM version, and its nothing less than beautiful.

Thanks to the art and design, this game has hardly showing its years. Stunning.

[DarthRushy]

So yeah, I like Dune II better(I also have Dune 2000 but without the cutscenes).

[DarthRushy]

Dune II is better. 

[Lenariet]

@DarthRushy

Dune 2 however is a bit different, a pure strategy game, while the original Dune has also adventure elements.

[DarthRushy]

@Lenariet Yeah, I know. But it gets boring.

1.I thought the books and movies describe Idaho as "a ladies man and attractive". The weird fat guy looks annoying too.

2.Gurney's inkvine scar is purely from the book. Nice.

3. The game Leto just suddenly(and far more randomly with no feel in it at all) says that the Sleeper must awaken. WHAT?!

[DarthRushy]

@DarthRushy 4.The great and emotional takeover of Arrakeen in the books(and movies) is replaced by the Baron calling the palace, saying he has taken ONE Fremen sietch. Hearing this, Leto just leaves the palace to go to some mission that is never described. Basically, he just vanishes. Part of me thinks he committed suicide which is probably what happened(ONE SIETCH, COME ON).

5.Why on earth is Thufir Hawat replaced by an odd alien?

6.I laughed at the fact Rabban is completely erased.

[DarthRushy]

@DarthRushy 7.I am still creeped out when Paul dies and when I want to keep playing, his dust quickly reforms.

8. I spend most of the time flying in my ornithopter(the Harkonnen probably never take over the palace) to sietches.

9. Shaddam should take a break from the spice.

10 and Final:Whose idea was to make the palace that small?

[Lenariet]

@DarthRushy

Well I didn't read the books, so I had no such problems with the game. And I bet Dune 2 and all the other Dune games released up to this day gave up details of the books too.

[DarthRushy]

@Lenariet But seriously, why did Leto leave? I mean ONE SIETCH AND HE'S COMMITTING SUICIDE OR STH?!

[SamJestesPatafian]

@DarthRushy He is killed (by a traitor, dr. Yue - he does't appear in the game though). The whole point of Emperor sending house Atredies to Dune is to kill Leto who grew stronger and could threaten Emperor's throne.

[DarthRushy]

@SamJestesPatafian Yeah, I'm a bit of a Dune expert(besides the Encyclopedia) and I know full well. But still, all Leto mentioned was that he has to go and may not be coming back. That was all. He just vanished. I still think he committed suicide. For one sietch. Other than that, PLZ tell me how to get my troops to fight Harkonnens(I know how to train them and all, but if I send warriors to attack Harkonnen, they just vanish). So that's why currently, Dune 2 is my fav. A little more story, only.

[ShiryuGL]

@DarthRushy That's weird. Upon sending well trained and armed troops to take on Harkonnen garrisons, they usually take some time to fight them, they don't usually vanish (defeated or captured) right away. By riding a worm into a battle, you also heavily increase Fremen moral in a battle.

[DarthRushy]

@ShiryuGL How do I become a worm-rider? And how do I know the difference, between my troops fighting Harkonnens and my troops being vanished?

[ShiryuGL]

@DarthRushy That's why you're being wiped out. You have yet to drink the Water of Life, right? Check out gamefaqs dot com for the walkthrough, it would be tricky for me to explain all you need before engaging Harkonnen outposts.

[SamJestesPatafian]

@DarthRushy It's best to read the walktrough. I was able to complete the whole game in approx. 8ght hours. Just move best spice troops to where most spice is to get full stocks. If you send first troops to do espionage they will vanish as they must be expert in army. Buy them krys, weirding modules an laser guns and they will report back to you instead of getting imprisoned by harkonens. .

[SamJestesPatafian]

@DarthRushy ... Pay attention to how namy troops are in the squad. There can be 500 or 2500 in one unit so there is a big diffrence. Put Duncan in the sietch you train fremen in army skills. Not forget to start vegetation experiments. It is best to do it near the Atredies castle as by then whole spice will be depleted there. It will motivate troops. Don't launch major attacks until Jessica is released (she will be in a first fortress you capture).

[SamJestesPatafian]

@SamJestesPatafian Sorry, I meant put Gurney in the sietch with fremen you train in military skills, not Duncan. 

[DarthRushy]

@SamJestesPatafian How do I do the vegetation experiment? Jessica is in the Atreides castle?

[Lenariet]

@DarthRushy

Dune 2 however is a bit different, a pure strategy game, while the original Dune has also adventure elements.

[Qba86]

Didn't realise that the Amiga version was that different form the PC one...

[boudoir83]

Is it a French or Canadian game ? Names of developers in credits sound French.

[ShiryuGL]

@boudoir83 Cryo was a French developer. =)

[Qba86]

@ShiryuGL

Just like Infogrames - the French made some pretty damn good games both for Amiga and 286 PC back in the day...

[headrockbeats]

@ xcomcmdr: I own both the PC floppy and PC-CD versions, both are great and certainly better than the one in this video...

I don't think I've ever seen the drawings from the amiga version. I wonder if there's any place to find them. Still, the movies in the glossary were a great addition, especially since so much in this game is designed to be compatible with the movie - plus, the fact that the game starts with Irulan sets the atmosphere so well...

[CrusaderGundam]

back when opening games went like this

C:\> cd Games

C:\Games> cd Dune

C:\Games\Dune> Dune

Loading Dune...

[pipenissen]

@CrusaderGundam Or make file on C:\ called dune.bat containing the path and .exe command.

But it seemed to be too complex to understand for some people, so they created wind0ze and took over the world

[headrockbeats]

The PC intro was light-years better (esp. the music, damn what's going on here).

Of course, regardless of platform, it's still one of the best games ever made.

[xcomcmdr]

@headrockbeats That was the PC CD ROM (not floppy) version wich came out later. Personnally, I still prefer the Amiga version wich includes Cryo's own beautiful drawings rather than a direct extract of Lynch's movie (wich I can watch whenever I want, and in a larger resolution that a dotted 320x200 image).

[Banzay27]

Lovely ol' ball o' dust. -boogies to the vibes-

[FloydianHate]

The wind at the beginning sounds like a guy just saying "woosh".

[Chaostos]

anyone else got addicted to this tune ?

[r1colar]

@Chaostos: for sure! :) and sometimes i even tend to think, it would fit with nin's fragile album %)

[ForstaSvenskenIRymdn]

1:35 WTF?

[ShiryuGL]

@ForstaSvenskenIRymdn Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, whose body fat is so much his legs can no longer walk, uses antigravity suspenders to move around.

[JerichoJames]

@ShiryuGL He can still walk, he's just fat and can't be arsed carrying all his weight around so he uses suspensors.

[ShiryuGL]

@JerichoJames According to the book, he can not, in fact, it clearly states that his legs have not been able to carry the wight of his body for several years before his death.

[JerichoJames]

@ShiryuGL Dune seems to describe Harkonnen's suspensor belt as simply enabling him to stand and walk upright rather than actually "fly,".

[GothikOrk]

@ShiryuGL Must be descended from Americans.

[supermatx]

@ShiryuGL

What are your real thoughts on David Lynch's dune?

[ShiryuGL]

@supermatx It's not as bad as Dune novel purist make you think.

[JackTorranceReDruM]

I love this game. Especially the soundtrack

[nutherefurlong]

Really a great game. It needs to be remade. The only think I can think of improving was having a scoring system at the end, so you could play it again and better your performance. I wanted to play it again right after I finished, but was disappointed that it didn't tell me how well I did at the end.

That, and taking into account some player possibilities; I remember it getting a bit confused when I didn't do things in the order it was expecting.

[Metastate12]

That is on an emulator and not an original Amiga. You should point that out. Impressive what was once possible with 1MB of RAM and 7MHz!

Awesome soundtrack!

[juggep80]

finished this game, one of the best ever. The best computer game was master of orion 2

[Caqui]

@juggep80 haha, for some reason, after listening to this, master of orion 2 was the FIRST thing I googled..

[TheAmiga1200]

Ik heb dit spel wel 10 keer uitgespeelt op de A500 en daarna op de A1200 (wow op de HD van 80 80mb, je hoefde niet eens floppy's te wisselen!), en van die muziek krijg ik nooit genoeg!

[dazado75]

I had the Mega CD version, that was given to me by Kevin Tunner of Virgin games when I used to work for them.

Classic and also the sound track, Dune exodus.

[ShiryuGL]

@dazado75 I think you meant "Exxos", more commonly know as "Spice Opera". One of my top 10 albums of all time. =)

[KenoshiAkai]

Music of the Amiga version was much better, though the PC version had the better graphics. And I love Spice Opera...so glad they did that.

[OBSysteme]

@KenoshiAkai I tend to think that the DOS version has some nice aspect to it.... sure it was not stereo... but there was some purity in the Adlib sound.

[slitor]

AMIGAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

[olynxmano]

PC Version is clearly better. But the music on the AMIGA version has it's own flair. I'd bet, the graphics of the Amiga version was suffering by the Floppy handling. While the PC version easily was to play from the HD, the AMIGA version had to be cut down, to have "human" loading times.

AMIGA Version had 3 880k Disks, PC Version had 4 1,2MB Disks to install them to the HD. The interesting spot here, back in the days, the Amiga version was rated much higher than the PC version.

[HardWarUK]

Nowhere near the PC version - sorry!

[mikebviras]

Superb game. I play it more then 10 years ago, but I love it. It has a good story line and the background music is excelent. Caracter in the game have personality, the game was ahead of its time.

[bachterman]

i still have that duneint.mod somewhere...

[panathatube]

It was a great game. It was a strategy/adventure hybrid and it really worked. The game was ahead of its time.

[MrBraunbart]

very cool

[Ralfast]

A bit of the skies of Baghdad circa 1991 (First Gulf War) at the end. Nice touch.

[pipenissen]

Chani! omg its been so long <3

[NindeArnatuyle]

Chani is beautiful.

[theDRaKKaR]

wonderful!

[YuukoFyeSeishirou]

Thank you so much for uploading... :) Such a golden piece in strategy-adventure games!

This was my first videogame ever in which I was really obsessed with the music. I remember I loaded the game only to hear it in the background. At that time that was weird so I felt sort of freaky LOL...

Then there came the PC golden age, and Monkey Island, and Myst and their music too... and now the Spice Opera ^^ It is like a gift from childhood.

Long live these memories and long live the Internet!! :)

[deejaykike]

better on dos

[TotOOntHeMooN]

PCDeg lol

[skyeez83]

loved it! *______*

[ShiryuGL]

You have a lovely voice! Yep, they don't make them like this any more...

[lechuk]

Please Cryo... come back... we need you!

[krize604]

So good game !! Real classic for me..

sound and gfx is super!

[PralK]

Great Intro! Great Game!

[MiNDBLiZZaRD]

aww, I love the music in this Game!!!

Play the game a lot, still searching for all sietches

[davearnettski]

Cool Game Indeed! It is hard to believe that 1.44 discs even existed!

[Deutschrock]

Great game!

[Marcher71]

Anyone here who loves this game is a friend of mine...just seeing and hearing this video made me buzz. This game was a life changer for me, I had read 1 book, now I've read them all, My dad and I watched the movie every couple of months. I still can't believe how they were able to fit so much great gameplay on those 1.44 mb discs. Just a great game on a fantastic ground-breaking machine. 'Long live the fighters'

[tetlik]

This is intro from Amiga version, and this game was released on three 880kb diskettes.

[gummoboy69]

This game frustrated the hell out of me

[SqueeksoAo]

I remember playing through this when I was like 6.

Fantastic game, although it makes me wonder if I'd appreciate it more now that I'm 20? Or maybe I should just leave it and remember it at being great.

[ShiryuGL]

Im 30 and I still play it from time to time (the Pc Version). trust me, it has aged very, very well...

[Heliosas]

@ShiryuGL I second that. I am 28 and I have been playing this game since the early 90's on and off. Every few years I dig out my Amiga 1200 and play it right through. Not many games I can say that for.

[driveonshesaid]

what a wonderful soundtrack that was. probably the best one of all computer games

[Pinkreaper]

Where's the text they're saying?

[Artesischer]

Just because you didn't like it doesn't make this game suck. YOU suck (what about that, sucker ?)

[sting2death2]

Yo This game was made before you where born and before they even had voices in video games Heck back then Floppy disks where the way games where distributed .

[samotnick]

STFU!!! what a damm idiot.

I remember time, when my older broder was playing that. I was to small to understand what is about, i mean eanglish, lots of words (as u see its not better even meny years later;))

But that music, damm... i remember it, i love it.

[FreemanNS]

You suck newb! This is old game,before you were born! In that time,it was one of the best advanture games i ever played,maybe except Monkey Island,but those two were my favourites! So shut the hell up,you stupid kid,and go back and play ur new gr8 games. You dont know shit about A500 and everything else.

[arizonabay1970]

I played this game to death.

[podycheck]

This game was my first exposure to Dune. Life-changing for sure. The music is probably the best game soundtrack I've heard.

[blackdogone]

Good ol' times... when about a dozen people created masterpiec games like this one. Today's mega-budgeted games never even came close to the feeling what these old games gave us.

However I like the AdLib version of the music much-much better.

[StarShaper123]

There were a lot of skilled assembler programmers in the 80's. It was the time when the first computers appeared on the mainstream market.

The good old days...

[blackdogone]

Besides skilled coders there were one thing that is missing most of today's game creators: creativity and enthusiasm. Back then computer games had to be innovative and fresh because there was no high-poly bling-bling super graphics that would cover anything else.

[SiriusHardware]

Anyone going to see WAL-E, when you get on board the AXIOM, listen carefully for this tune (especially the arpeggio part at the beginning of this clip). I'm certain it's there...

[bbenjoe]

Since rain never drops on Dune. -at the very beginning, those clouds in the sky are wrong.

[theclassicpenguin]

I love this game! It's amazing how immersive the music and graphics were. Also, the passing of time, the sun rise and dawn --all simply using gradients. Reminded me of Corel Draw. But anyway, the character designs and exotic music gave this game an incredible sense of atmosphere. I think the game is better than the movie. No disrespect to David Lynch or H.R. Giger. I love H.R. Giger --I enjoyed the Dark Seed series as well. What else can one say about Dune? Chani was hot. :)

[KleaVizion]

go to google and search for free pc games Dune

You'll find a free version very quickly, I'd give you the exact url but apparently it won't let me :(

[m1omg]

go find AMIGA version rather, it has much better music

this is the AMIGA version on an Amiga 500

[KleaVizion]

Love this game, playing this on the mega cd was my first intrroduction to Dune.

I just finished the original novel yesterday after wanting to read it for the longest time.. you really have to read it, the movie doesn't compare imo. The 2000 sci-fi channel trilogy I thought was brilliant until I read the book, now it just seems over acted.

[de4th0]

Absolutly loved this when was a kid. Soon as i tried it out i was hooked for weeks on end until i finnished it. Id have another crack at it NOW if i could get hold of it

[sebaceous]

if that lame computer graphic of the baron makes you uncomfortable how do you function in the real world?

[rebelnorm]

holy CRAP

1:36 the baron!!!! They got the suspenders right but was he meant to be that naked??

[ifukyouintheass]

i just played that game in dos box it was fun.. u can dowload it for free...

[Europapokaal]

it's just intro..the in-game music was like...oh, I want my Amiga back....

[miyra28]

this intro is awesome

[fox394th]

Este fue de los primeros video juegos de CD que pude jugar en la PC, aquellos años eran en 1994, que recuerdos, excelente juego, muy entretenido, .... ....

[QodokOdrade]

Is it just me or does Paul Atreides in this intro look oddly like Eric from That 70's Show/Eddie Brock from Spider Man 3 (can't remember the actor's real name)?

[CheeseDogX]

That is the likeness of Kyle MacLachlan, who played him in the movie.

[QodokOdrade]

Obviously that's what they were intending; the guy I was talking about was unheard of when this game was made. I'm just saying this incidental resemblance is kind of funny (to me).

[DarthRushy]

@CheeseDogX Seems to have shorter hair in the game.

[jpartsnl]

I spent hours and hours on my 386 with SVGA monitor and Soundblaster 8 bit sounds card :)

That was like.. 1990?

ah those were the days LOL

[blade004]

Yeah those were the days :) The game was released in around 1992 and this is running on an Amiga 500. That was the beauty of the Amiga back then, no Sound Card needed, just straight out custom chips :) I finally left the Amiga in 2000 and went to the PC, but not without kicking and screaming first.. lol.

[Banzay27]

I remember playing this game, but I didn't go much into it, I forget why.

A great adventure game I did play thru more than once is Beneath A Steel Sky. Also by Virgin Games.

[Traquan]

This was a great game. I thought it was quite difficult though, happened more than once that I was too late transporting the spice etc. Eventually did finish it ofcourse. I loved the way you had to make your way through the story.

[terminalblue]

As much as I really love most intros from games around this time period, this one just makes me laugh.

The facial expressions are so ridiculous.

[morxx]

We're talking about a game made in 1992.

There were no facial expressions before that other then a bunch of pixels with a smiley face.

Go search some abandonware sites and look for a game from 1992 that has better graphics then Dune 1. You won't find any.

[Banzay27]

I think he wasn't referring to the facial expressions as a whole.

It's the funny eyebrow twitches they kept doing, a bit weird.

[Wacek4444]

thx for uploading, a great game indeed, so much better than rts sequel

I finshed it at least 2-3 times on my PC

Picq and Ulrich are geniuses among game composers; "verticopter theme" (when flying over desert) is the best piece of cg music ever composed

[PralK]

This intro was always impressive to me. Great music...

[Pszichopark]

Ahh..I'am played it in Amiga in the past, but i was too young for it, to understand.

Now, after 13 year i can play with it, but i'am still bad in it...Harkonnens beat me every time...

Death animation in the desert....one of the bestXD

[robbo188]

Great game!

[Shendue]

The sequel, Dune 2, is considered the first RTS ever.

Still, i personally prefere the first episode.

I missed the adventure elements in the sequel, which was all action and had no story.

[osten22]

I remember this game from when i was very young, i had no idea that it was from a book  and a movie starring Kyle Maclachlan, one of my favourite actors.

Yep its an amazing game, i almost completed it 4 years ago, i used to be scared of Paul getting unconscious in the desert

[falariem]

I read somewhere that this was the first game to be released on CD Rom. Shows how we've come.

But in all truth, I did and STILL enjoy this game. It's a good strategy game.

[simpleslayer]

danm i remember this from when i was a boy can remember it was rock hard but that might ov been my age lol also i remember anytime i used the worm to go watch a battle i ended up gettin killed

[tjcoyote59]

I still have this game on Sega Cd. My all time Favorite.

[TheMorMor]

Where there any speech in the game ?

[Borritz]

Full speech in the cd-versions I guess

(was one for the pc at least)

[Bryskens]

Can anybody upload thath gross decaying scen of dead Paul in the desert, i was scare to "death" by thath when i was a child, i wanna comfront this now, even thou i dont really wanna :)

[Bryskens]

Can anybody upload thath gross decaying sceen of dead Paul in the desert, i was scared up to "death" by it when i was a child, i wanna comfront this again now, even thou i don't really wanna :)

[rattrap]

One of the best game ever made!

[pimpbot2007]

back in the days I was totally grasped by this beautiful game!

[zmalosej]

this is definitely one my favourite games of all time, and probably my favourite when i was a kid. the soundtrack is great. side by side with the soundtrack from another world.

[moneaux]

the death scene in this game unnerves me to no end

[EpoBot]

This is where PC gaming started for me, back on my 386. I hadn't heard of Dune before, but this game had all the essential stuff to make me hooked.

[easyplex]

The Amiga was a fantastic system

[reklamomand]

The music is just so great on the amiga and in this intro as well.

thanks for uploading.

This Amiga-intro is almost as good as Street Fighter 2 and the Chuck Rock middle-sequence (subjectivly speaking).

[jbaudrand]

Stephane picq is a genius, who can remember the unique loading system on his game Birdie on CPC464?

the music was played during loading.

Who can remember the music of Kult...

This guy is a genius and as you, I think the amiga version is far superior to other version....

On his personnal website, he said that he'll go back to video game music, I can't wait...

[Kirq]

Music, graphics and atmospherein this game are coherent and create one very unique masterpiece. Ive finished this game several times. Very special game in my gaming history. Thanks for this upload ShiryuGL, ive been looking for this intro on youtube for some few months.

[andersdenkend]

I also love the music of the Amiga version the most. Really great drumset. The game itself was quite cool, too. I even own the Spice Opera OST. So great. :D