The classic Dune board game, first printed in 1979, is on sale for Prime Day. The asymetrical strategy game was well ahead of its time.
The board game adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, first published 40 years ago and long out of print, is back — and it’s on sale for October Prime Day. Snag the legendary strategy game before it goes back up to full price.
Originally titled Frank Herbert’s Dune, the game was first published by The Avalon Hill Game Company in 1979. It’s widely considered a classic, and was a personal favorite of GF9 head honcho, Peter Simunovich. An early prototype of the classic strategy game was even on display at this year’s Gen Con, the nation’s largest tabletop gaming convention.
In Dune, players take on the role of iconic characters from the 1965 novel, including Paul Atreides, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, and Emperor Shaddam IV. But each player at the table plays by a slightly different set of rules, including those governing how their units spawn onto the battlefield, move, and fight.
“As Peter will tell you,” said GF9’s John Matthews, “‘I’ve played 500 games of this!’ And you know, he might not be wrong. He might actually have played 5,000! It pretty much seems that’s all he did through university was play Dune.
“But he just loved the classic game. So he said, ‘Why don’t we just bring the classic game out together?’ So we went, asked [the Herbert estate].
