Which American director inspired a video game based his 1984 movie "Dune"?
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Dune II Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (titled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and Dune: The Battle for Arrakis for the Mega Drive/Genesis port respectively) is a real-time strategy "Dune" video game developed by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Games in December 1992. It is based upon David Lynch's 1984 movie "Dune", an adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of the same name.
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David Lynch David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He has been described by "The Guardian" as "the most important director of this era". AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", while the success of his films has led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
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Gremlins (video game) Gremlins is a 1984 video game developed and published by Atari for the Atari 2600 system. It is a tie-in to the 1984 film "Gremlins". Atari released another, substantially different game based on the film for the Atari 5200.
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Dune: The Battle of Corrin Dune: The Battle of Corrin is a 2004 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the fictional "Dune" universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the third book in the "Legends of Dune" prequel trilogy, which takes place over 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's celebrated 1965 novel "Dune". The series chronicles the fictional Butlerian Jihad, a crusade by the last free humans in the universe against the thinking machines, a violent and dominating force led by the sentient computer Omnius.
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Dune (film) Dune is a 1984 American epic science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as young nobleman Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles. It was filmed at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City and included a soundtrack by the rock band Toto, as well as Brian Eno.
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Tron (video game) Tron is a coin-operated arcade video game manufactured and distributed by Bally Midway in 1982. The game consists of four subgames inspired by the events of the Walt Disney Productions motion picture "Tron" released in the same year. The lead programmer was Bill Adams.
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High Noon (video game) High Noon is a Shoot 'em up game for the Commodore 64, created by Ocean Software in 1984.
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The Horde (video game) The Horde is a hybrid action-strategy video game that was originally released on the 3DO platform, but was soon after ported to the Sega Saturn and MS-DOS. It was an unusual hybrid of action and strategy game for the time. It also featured full-motion video sequences featuring a number of actors including Kirk Cameron as Chauncey and Michael Gregory as Kronus Maelor. Video sequences were reduced to slideshows (with full sound) in some versions.
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1984 video game) Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a 1984 arcade game by Atari, Inc. and the follow-up to 1983's "Star Wars" arcade game. The game uses raster graphics, rather than vector graphics which were used for the first and third Atari arcade games based on the "Star Wars" franchise. Home ports were released by Domark Software for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Amiga in 1988.
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Gurney Halleck Gurney Halleck is a fictional character in the "Dune" universe created by Frank Herbert. He is a major character in Herbert's "Dune" (1965) and "Children of Dune" (1976), and appears in some of the prequel and sequel novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
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Atari: Game Over Atari: Game Over is a 2014 documentary film directed by Zak Penn about the North American video game crash of 1983, using the Atari video game burial excavation as a starting point.
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Larry Kaplan Larry Kaplan is an American video game designer and programmer best known for the 1981 Atari 2600 game, "Kaboom!". and for co-founding Activision.
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Bill Varney Harold William "Bill" Varney (January 22, 1934 – April 2, 2011) was an American motion picture sound mixer. A two-time Academy Award winner, Varney shared the Academy Award for Best Sound for "" in 1980 and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in 1981. Varney also received Academy Award for Best Sound nominations his collaborative sound mixing on "Dune" in 1984 and "Back to the Future" in 1985.
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Ballblazer Ballblazer is a 1984 futuristic sports game created by Lucasfilm Games. It was originally released for the Atari 8-bit family, then ported to the Atari 5200, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX. and later the Atari 7800 and the Nintendo Famicom. The game was called "Ballblaster" during development; pirated versions of the game went by this name as well. The principal creator and programmer of "Ballblazer" was David Levine.
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Starglider Starglider is a 3D video game published in 1986 by Rainbird. It was by developed Jez San under his company name Argonaut Software. It is a fast-moving, first-person combat flight simulator, rendered with colourful wireframe vector graphics inspired by San's love of the 1983 Atari coin-op "Star Wars".
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Paul Atreides Paul Atreides ( ; later known as Paul Muad'Dib) is a fictional character in the "Dune" universe created by Frank Herbert. Paul is a prominent character in the first two novels in the series, "Dune" (1965) and "Dune Messiah" (1969), and returns in "Children of Dune" (1976). The character is brought back as two different gholas in the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson novels which conclude the original series, "Hunters of Dune" (2006) and "Sandworms of Dune" (2007), and appears in the prequels "Paul of Dune" (2008) and "The Winds of Dune" (2009).
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Butlerian Jihad The Butlerian Jihad is an event in the back-story of Frank Herbert's fictional "Dune" universe. Occurring over 10,000 years before the events chronicled in his 1965 novel "Dune," this jihad leads to the outlawing of certain technologies, primarily "thinking machines," a collective term for computers and artificial intelligence of any kind. This prohibition is a key influence on the nature of Herbert's fictional setting.
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Avalon (video game) Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie is a computer game released for the (48k) ZX Spectrum by Hewson Consultants in 1984.
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George Lucas George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.
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Star Raiders II Star Raiders II is a video game released in 1986 for the Atari 8-bit family as a sequel to 1979's "Star Raiders", which was the killer app for the Atari computers. The game was originally developed as part of a tie-in with the movie "The Last Starfighter", which featured an arcade game of the same name as part of its plotline. Versions for the Atari 5200 and the Atari 8-bit computers were developed in 1984, although those were never released. Later the tie-in was dropped, and the game converted into a sequel to "Star Raiders" by changing a number of gameplay elements. The gameplay remained different from the original "Star Raiders".
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Lawrence Holland Lawrence Holland is an American game designer and founder of the now defunct Totally Games. He is best known for the published by LucasArts.
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Campaign '84 Campaign '84 is a game developed by Sunrise Software and released for the ColecoVision in 1983. It is a political simulator in which the player must run for president in the 1984 American presidential elections.