I think I am just the right age to have enjoyed Dune in all the wrong order. Dune II was one of the first PC games I really got into when I was in middle school. In the early 90’s my parents made a huge upgrade from an 8088 to 486 DX 33 with a slighly low 4MB of RAM, dual floppy drives, a single speed cd rom, a sound blaster pro card, an MPU-401, and a connected Roland Sound Canvas (SC-55mkII) so my mom could use computer software to assist in teaching piano. The game pretty much defined the RTS genre, and I’m amused to look up now that it was also one of the first games to support general MIDI. If I recall correctly, in the game, there were three main houses used - Atreides, Harkonnen, and Ordos. I think the game actually borrowed more from Lynch’s version than the book with the weirding modules from the film really seeming a lot like the Atreides’ special sonic amplifier weapon: http://duneii.com/special/ … Which if you want to get weird, House Ordos was never mentioned in any of the novels, but it was written about in a non-canon, but Herbert approved, Dune Encyclopedia published in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dune_Encyclopedia … After having played the game, I saw the movie, which I still quite like. Having read the book after having thoroughly enjoyed the other products, I have to say it has been my favorite experience in science fiction.
