History VideoGame / Dune1992

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Spice. It's really the only resource to manage in the game (aside from, much later, water, and that has much less of an impact). The single resource to manage actually makes the game rather interesting, since you need to send the Emperor an ever-increasing quantity of spice every week or so, and also use spice to buy equipment from the smugglers to outfit your Fremen for more efficient spice mining and warfare. Each area of Dune also has a specific spice concentration, from very little to a whole heck of a lot, with richer areas yielding more spice when worked. But mining causes the concentration in the area to go down, until there's practically no spice left. Expert spice mining troops can still extract spice from such depleted areas, but only at a measly 1kg per hour. And planting vegetation in an area makes spice mining impossible there.

* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: Nuclear weapons are banned by the Great Convention in the Dune universe, but most noble houses nonetheless possess a stockpile of them. In-game, you can capture such weapons and use them against the Harkonnens. Although it has no in-game negative effects, the Fremen will nonetheless express shock upon being armed with them (see OhCrap below).

** It's perfectly possible to lose ALL your Fremen troops in the Cryo ''Dune'' game if you send them against Harkonnen fortresses unprepared, though it takes time and effort.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: Generally received great reviews, and is an overall excellent game.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Seemingly in the endgame. [[spoiler: Once your Fremen troops conquer Arrakeen, the Harkonnen and Emperor Shaddam IV are deposed and Paul becomes the new Emperor. No specific reason for this is given, other than perhaps the Emperor not being able to keep his position once it's revealed he intended for the Harkonnen to wipe out the Atreides on Dune.]]

* AsYouKnow: [[UpToEleven Taken to ridiculous extremes]], on the off chance anyone actually playing the game is familiar with neither book nor the film. Duke Leto actually tells you he's your father in so many words, and Jessica introduces herself as your mother. The Duke actually says "As you know" when charging you with a specific task. And Duncan has to consistently remind you that spice is the most valuable substance in the universe, and can only be found on Dune.

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[UpToEleven Possibly the fastest one in history.]] Stilgar guides you to a sietch where you meet Chani, and she asks you if you've seen the desert at night. Tell her to follow you, and she won't go too far. Walk out into the desert a screen or two, wait until evening (or not, if it's already night), and talk to Chani. LoveConfession and MakeOutPoint ensue. Yes, Paul and Chani become an (almost) inseparable couple potentially ''two minutes'' after they first meet.

** One of the first named Fremen you meet is Harah, who is "mourning her husband Jamis, who was killed in a fight with a young man." In the book, Paul kills Jamis after first meeting Stilgar's troop in a ritual duel, and under Fremen law is then responsible for caring for his wife, Harah, and their children.

* MouthFlaps: Superbly averted, in a game that came out as early as 1992, thanks to the Hemouth lips synchronization system developed by Danièle and Rémi Herbulot (the former being the director and one of the main programmers of the game).

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[UpToEleven Possibly the fastest one in history.]] Stilgar guides you to a seitch where you meet Chani, and she asks you if you've seen the desert at night. Tell her to follow you, and she won't go too far. Walk out into the desert a screen or two, wait until evening (or not, if it's already night), and talk to Chani. LoveConfession and MakeOutPoint ensue. Yes, Paul and Chani become an (almost) inseparable couple potentially ''two minutes'' after they first meet.

* InkSuitActor: Paul and Jessica are clearly based on the likenesses of their actors in the David Lynch film, Creator/KyleMacLachlan and Creator/FrancescaAnnis, respectively. The other characters in the game, not so much.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While the characters in the book were thoroughly {{grey|AndGrayMorality}}, and in the film fairly white, the game makes them all pure heroes.

* AdaptedOut: Many important characters from the novel are missing from the game, such as Dr. Yueh, Paul's younger sister Alia, and some Harkonnen characters such as Glossu Rabban and Piter de Vries. Princess Irulan's opening narration of the 1984 movie does appear in the CD version, but Irulan herself never appears in the actual game, and Paul marries Chani rather than Irulan in this version of the story.

* AsYouKnow: [[UpToEleven Taken to ridiculous extremes]], on the off chance anyone actually playing the game is familiar with neither book nor the film. Duke Leto actually tells you he's your father in so many words, and Jessica introduces herself as your mother. The Duke actually says "As you know" when charging you with a specific task. And Ducan has to consistently remind you that spice is the most valuable substance in the universe, and can only be found on Dune.

''Dune (1992)'' is a video game released in 1992 by Creator/CryoInteractive. It adapts the plot of [[Literature/{{Dune}} the novel]] by Creator/FrankHerbert, and takes a few cues from Creator/DavidLynch's [[Film/Dune1984 1984 film adaptation]].

->''I am Duke Leto Atreides, your father.''
-->-- '''Duke Leto Atreides''' wants to make sure you know what's what.

* AsYouKnow: [[UpToEleven Taken to ridiculous extremes]], on the off chance anyone actually playing the game is familiar with neither book nor the film. Duke Leto actually tells you he's your father (see the page quote) in so many words, and Jessica introduces herself as your mother. The Duke actually says "As you know" when charging you with a specific task. And Ducan has to consistently remind you that spice is the most valuable substance in the universe, and can only be found on Dune.