{"id":1193,"date":"2016-03-14T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2016-03-14T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:13:58","slug":"retro-scan-dune-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1193\/retro-scan-dune-ii","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Dune II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dune2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dune2_small.jpg\" alt=\"Dune II PC Game Advertisement Scan - 1992\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>I just got a craving for The Spice<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Dune II<\/em> is to the real-time strategy genre as <em>Wolfenstein 3D<\/em> is to first-person shooters.  Like <em>Wolf-3D<\/em>, <em>Dune II<\/em> wasn&#8217;t the absolute first example of its genre, but it was the first game to bring together all the distinctive elements of its respective genre into one title &#8212; in this case, those elements would later be copied and expanded upon over and over again by games like <em>Command &#038; Conquer<\/em> and <em>Warcraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I&#8217;ve only played <em>Dune II<\/em> a few times &#8212; only many years after its release.  I never got into it, but I can see why it is a historically important game.  <em>Warcraft<\/em> was my first modern RTS game.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From VG&#038;CE, November 1992, p.4 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite Real-Time Strategy game of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a craving for The Spice Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre as Wolfenstein 3D is to first-person shooters. Like Wolf-3D, Dune II wasn&#8217;t the absolute first example of its genre, but it was the first game to bring together all the distinctive elements of its respective genre into one title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,27,26,9],"tags":[313,150,1351,419,60,1352,1355,257,1354,1353,435],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-313","tag-advertisement","tag-dune-ii","tag-pc-games","tag-retro-scan","tag-rts","tag-strategy","tag-vgce","tag-virgin-interactive","tag-westwood-studios","tag-wolfenstein-3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}