The Story of Dune (Amiga, PC): From Failed Films to Classic Games - Kim Justice
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2018
- It took a long time for Frank Herbert's seminal 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune, to receive an adaptation worthy of its standing - several attempts to make it a film failed, and the David Lynch-led one that did arrive flopped. Finally though, the trio of Virgin, Cryo and Westwood would nail it with not one, but two classic games for the PC, Amiga and Mega CD -- this review video is the story of how they came to be. Enjoy!
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The failed Jodorowsky adaptation had a positive side effect. HR Giger was involved in the production designing the Harkonnen where he met Dan O'Bannon. Once the project failed O'Bannon returned to the US and started working on what would become Alien. The rest is history.
I replay the original Cryo 'Dune' every other year. It is by far one of my favourite games of all time and I don't see that ever changing. i do hope with a new movie adaptation in the horizon, new 'Dune' video games get released but they will have an awful lot to live up to...
This video is especially hilarious in hindsight now that we finally have the definitive Dune film (Dune: Part One, with Part Two coming soon).
You know I never played the game, but I loved the film, even as a kid. I had no idea what was going on,, too young but for me it was a magical world with those huge worms and visuals for its time. I got me dad to rent it 3 times in a row from the rental shop.... ahhh I miss those too, what an experience they was on a Friday night.... crisps, 2 liters of rocket fuel coke and the biggest bag of Butterkist popcorn!
Kim, I have listened to all your FF reviews videos and several of the Top 50s and 100s... i love your selections as the are often well thought out and refreshingly surprising. I also love the amount of information you uncover in your comprehensive documentaries. I truly loved this particular game on PC cd. Very well done, great voice clips and sound. A joy I reacquaint myself with every few years. Thank you for this. Great content!
Always happy to see Cryo's Dune get the attention it deserves. The 1992 PC-CD re-release was a real marvel - full voice acting with animated lip sync, new 3D-rendered flight sequences, and Stephane Picq's soundtrack still as strong as ever. What I'd give to see it appear on
Terrific stuff. I never had either of the games back in the day, but Amiga Power always raved about them [more so Dune 2] and they were always in the Complete Control section [cheats, hints tips] which meant people were playing them for years after release. I have since played them both on an emulator, and they are fascinating games.
Wow. So glad you made this film about Dune. Okay, so I have always loved David Lynch's films and I always thought the 84 film was very good. Back in the day I mistakenly called it the 'Poor mans Star Wars,' but, knowing what I do now - I'd like to go back in time and cuff that boys ears because. Basically Star Wars is the poor man's Dune. I loved Dune 1 and 2 as games - having played both in the day on the faithful old Amiga. They were like my go-to games. Recently decided to sit down and finally read the 6 books. At the end of the fifth. 6th one waiting.
Another fantastic video, Kim. You've been on fire lately!
I loved both the film and the games, great video Kim!
Hey great video kim.
Fantastic book, fantastic film and fantastic games! Thanks for making this Kim!
A nice overview and coverage of Dune. I was unaware of the Sega CD game - thank you. I'd like to see you do more videos covering Dune in the future.
Thanks for this Kim. I love the books, film and have fond memories of playing this as a kid. Played it on an IBM 386 with no soundcard back in the day
amazingly crafted documentary Kim as usual you rock in this given format, yet I lone for your old genesis/ megadrive review format, maybe one day my dear friend.
I'm probably one of the rare people that like the Mini-Series on TV. OMFG, I just got to the Limmy's Show part Kim... omfg, WRONG WAY DOWN A ONE WAY STREEEET!
I never read the book or saw any screen plays of Dune (including the recent 2021 film) but what I played to death was Dune 2000 on my Amiga, RPG was totally new to me at the age of 21 and despite toying with early C&C my best memories of real-time RPG stopped with Dune and I never got back into the genre... Great history, thank you
One of my all time favourite Amiga games. I spent most of the 1992 Summer holidays playing this beauty. A fantastic video that does the game justice (See what I did there ☺)
I could never figure out how to play the original Amiga game back in the day (maybe I was too young ). I remember being introduced to Dune 2 on a friend's PC though and how completely enthralled I became.
BRAVO KIM. Another great video. As someone who has almost no interest in Dune, Ive never read the book or seen the Lynch IE Smithee version, nor played the game, but I did see the Sci-Fi channels mini which i enjoyed a bit and did see the documentary about the failed making of Dune, I always imagine an alternate reality, going to the cinema and seeing a triple feature of Jodorowsky's Dune, Gilliams' The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Buckaroo Banzai Vs The World Crime League.