Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty — How a 1992 Desert Invented the RTS Retro game retrospective #7 — 1992, Westwood Studios / Virgin Interactive, DOS (Sega Genesis port: Dune II: Battle for Arrakis) Every real-time strategy game you've ever played is built on sand. Not metaphorically — literally. Before Warcraft , before Command & Conquer , before the genre even had a name, Westwood Studios made a game about a desert planet where the resource is a drug, the weather eats your buil...