The floppy disk version though was just as captivating, but those Spice demands were tough.

It was a stunning game, with the later CD version having stills and clips from the film as well as speech. You played as Paul Atreides, managing mining the Spice production, the Fremen, and bringing the fight to the Harkonnen to drive them off Dune. “He who controls the Spice, controls the universe.” Dune for DOS was a great adventure strategy game that followed the novel quite closely. Interestingly, the shareware title was available from the BBS of Leeds Trinity and All Saints University, just as the next one was… 47. Dune It may not stand up to modern gaming in terms of the graphics, but it was an ace little addictive game that you couldn’t stop playing. The first episode has you rescuing eight sages, who will help you stop the Shikadi from destroying the galaxy. Wasn’t there some kind of FBI raid at the time that seized all the master disks?Ĭommander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy was the third game in the Commander Keenseries, and one of the more popular. The only way you can pay him back is to buy drugs from one location, and sell them for more in another location. That didn’t stop a lot of us from buying the disk from computer fairs though.īasically the immoral storyline has you as a small-time drug dealer, in debt up to your eyeballs with a loan shark. Still, an ace game.įurther Reading: PC Building Guide – be quiet! Pure Base 600 Case 49. Dope WarsĪnother DOS game that caused something of a stir from various focus groups, churches, parents against things corrupting their young and pretty much everyone on the planet with a moral consciousness.

It wasn’t one to show your mother, and I vaguely recall there being some Mary Whitehouse-like backlash from the idea that you’re setting fire to government buildings. To help you further the conflagration, there were petrol cans lying around that could be picked up and spilt to help the fire spread to the corners of the floor.

The idea was simple: you needed to set fire to the entire floor, destroying virtually everything in the floor while you legged it down the stairs to the next level. Behind you was a fuse that had a flame following it after a few seconds of starting the level. You were a pink square that needed to be controlled around the floorplans of various government buildings. It was pretty basic looking, even for an early DOS game.

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