If anyone hasn't played the game Dune, it is definitely worth checking out - if only to watch a Let's Play on YouTube.

It's not really an RTS a la the more famous Dune 2, but a sort of adventure/strategy mix. The appeal, though, is just in how luscious it is. It's a bit dizzying, beautiful (remarkably so, for the era), and full of soul in a way that few games of the era were. The Adlib Gold soundtrack in particular remains an amazing work of art too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUfGyfbzl9k

Yes, there's nothing like 2 straight hours of "Building". "Deploying" "Sandworm Attack!"

To get you into the Dune mood :)

There are 2 different "first" games of Dune, that one is Dune 2, there's also Dune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3NcFEvc4yk

It even has clips from David Lynch's movie.

Sigh, I remember getting the CD-ROM version with my first multimedia PC and playing this game...

That was a great game. “Atomics!”