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I love ya notch, you inspired me. Games don't have to have a story, great graphics, or even a point. They have to be fun. After years of being a gamer, Minecraft is the only game I come back to.

I will buy anything you have for sale.

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Minecraft's my favorite game, and my son's. We also both like Dune2. He's 9. (I'm not :)

I just checked out Dune2, looks good thanks for the recommendation.

Watch out for the big harkonnen missile on the maps with the castle. Enjoy!

It's quite hard getting over the interface these days. Surprisingly enough Warcraft 1 is still very playable.

Ya dune2 is dos based. Once you get used to it, though, it'll be very enjoyable. You can't rely on the Fremen unless you have 5+castles and send them all at once. Watch out or you'll run out of spice and won't be able to repair your missile launchers.

I tried playing dune2 again, it was still a good game but it was so annoying that you could only select one unit at a time.

Use the keyboard shortcuts. A attack. M move. (Muscle memory)

Also, use the missile launcher. stay away from missle turret range, and fire one square away from missile tower. Enough missiles miss target, land on turret, that with enough missile launchers you can defeat missile turrets, or bleed enemy spice reserves at least.

Protect your missile launchers with a line of heavy tanks just behind, in case the enemy makes a sortie.

(Ohhh, I have to play it again now... See what you've done!)

I did. still too tedious to control, after getting used to modern games.

I recommend Dune2000, it has a similar feel to Dune2 and a much more modern interface.

Is it available on Steam? Is Dune2 available on Steam?

Sadly neither one is available on Steam or GoG. Both can be found on abandon-ware sites.

Thanks (yesterday I found dune2 for android (not on GooglePlay though) and it works fine :)

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