DUNE II: Battle for Arrakis

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Also known as "Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty". While not the first real time strategy game, it established the format that would be followed for years to come. It's success was said to lay the foundation for Age of Empires, Command & Conquer, Warcraft, and many other RTS games that followed.

Original Programmed for MS-DOS by Westwood Studios, this version was converted for RISC OS three years later. Was also available on Acorn floppy disk.

Converted by: Eclipse Productions

Acorn programming: Jason Tribbeck assisted by Chris Tribbeck.

Platform :	RISC PC
Format :	CD ROM
Publisher :	Virgin
Authors :	Eclipse Productions
Date :	1995
Product Code :	Virgin

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