DOS

Command & Conquer

Trivia

Command & Conquer was named as #2 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking by German gaming magazine GameStar (issue 12/1999).

In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/1996) Command & Conquer was named "Best Strategy Game in 1995" and "Best Game in 1995".

Command & Conquer was named #48 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on May 01, 2008.

A special "Commemorative Edition" pack for MS-DOS. Contains: the full Dune II game on CD-ROM and manual, boxcover artwork poster and "The Music of Command & Conquer" a 22-track soundtrack (audio) CD with selected music from C&C and Covert Operations add-on. Not available in Canada, America, Mexico and Japan.

Open up the instruction manual to the page right after the table of contents, the one with the fire that has the quote from Kane. The last line says "(Global Net Interpol, file #GEN4:16)". That "#GEN4:16" actually refers to Genesis 4:16 from the Bible. That explains where they got the idea for Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod.

It was the first game to be featured on the cover of Mega Score, the longest running Portuguese gaming magazine, on the second issue (November 1995). The honours of the first belong to the Sega Saturn.

The NOD leader Kain was voted by GameSpot as the 7th best villain in gaming history.

Kane is played by Joseph D. Kucan, he is the voice & video director for most of Westwood's games (including the command&conquer series).

Contributed by Der.Archivar (602) on Sep 26, 2003.

Westwood voluntarily changed a few things in the German version, because they feared the game could be indexed.

- The cover: the soldier on the cover was displayed bigger, so that the weapon on the left couldn't be seen anymore

- The manual: the photos of the soldier units were censored with "Geheim" [secret], so that nobody could see that they had human faces

- The game: the soldiers were called 'androids' or 'bots', and they spilled black blood when they died (oil)

I also believe that one of the videos was censored, when Seth gets a head-shot, but I am not sure of this, because I don't own the US version.

Contributed by robotriot (6380) on Aug 10, 2001.

Obviously, the in-game screenshots on the back cover are faked or taken from a beta version that actually had better graphics than the release version.

Contributed by robotriot (6380) on Aug 10, 2001.

Command & Conquer was voted #28 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll published by Game Informer Magazine (Issue 100, August 2001).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jul 28, 2001.

Command & Conquer was voted #24 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 22, 2001.

This game is a member of Computer Gaming World's Hall of Fame.

Westwood received an entry to the guiness book of records, because they sold C&C1 more than 10 million times worldwide.

Contributed by robotriot (6380) on Dec 07, 1999.

Later Westwood also released a SVGA Windows 95 version, called Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn Gold. The game content itself was unaffected, but if you were playing against someone with the VGA version you had a great advantage: you could see almost 4 times as much as the DOS version on one screen.

Contributed by robotriot (6380) on Nov 01, 1999.