Developer: Bruce Poehlman

Bruce Poehlman was an Atari programmer. With Gary Stark he came up with the first ideas for Dune, an Atari 2600 game planned in 1984 to tie in with David Lynch’s film. Both moved on to other work, and another, unnamed programmer seems to have written the early demo that survives. Dune was cancelled when Atari shut down 2600 development later that year.
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Dune

Dune is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype that Atari worked on in 1984 to tie in with David Lynch's film of Frank Herbert's novel. It was planned as an action-adventure in the style of Atari's classic Adventure. The…

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