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C&C is not the "grandaddy" of RTS. Dune 2 is.

You beat me to it. :) Some background on Command & Conquer in relation to Dune 2:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/183584/features/command...

  "The first time we showed that game internally it had wizards
  and castles," recalls a smiling Castle. "We were working with
  Virgin at the time, and they said that they had this great IP,
  Frank Herbert's Dune, and Brett loved the books. So we took
  the game we were working on and recreated it in the Dune
  universe.

  "It solved one of the fundamental problems we had with making
  an RTS, which was that we wanted to have a central resource
  that everybody was fighting over. Dune has spice, which made
  perfect sense - and it was also used when we came to the idea
  of tiberium. It became the anchor of the C&C universe...".

Or Herzog Zwei or perhaps earlier games (Ancient Art of War anyone?).

(sadly I guess this discussion somehow has to come up every time someone mentions the word RTS.)

I have to say I really enjoyed Herzog Zwei on the Genesis - did anyone ever make a new version of it?

There's Airmech, an alpha version is available for play on Google Chrome. I think the developers intend to make it into a free2play game, like Leagues of Legend.

Yes. http://carbongames.com/airmech/help.html Interesting blog where they write about their experience in porting it to NaCl.

Thanks for this link, I've a huge fan of Herzog Zwei, you're rocking my world with that link :)

It's mostly one of the best unknown game soundtrack I've heard.

How about Command HQ and Dan Bunton's games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_HQ. I'm pretty sure Ancient Art of War predates that though. I'm showing my age.

Command HQ was 1990. The Ancient Art of War was way back in 1984!

The Ancient Art of War was an awesome game. I started working on a clone for iOS, but I got lazy. <:)

Still it is EPIC especially in HTML5.

Quite impressed how far you can go with HTML5 and javascript :)

Oh, no doubt. I'm just being a pedant, like any good geek would be!

You can probably make StarCraft in the browser, too. If you remove the nostalgia filter, that's a much better game than Command & Conquer. (I enjoyed both back then.)

I thought the same thing, and even went to YouTube, just to feel a little nostalgic for a moment :)

I remember having to move one unit at a time. That alone required some skill!! =)

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