Re: Prince of Persia is 35!

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

I first actually played the game on PC in the mid-90s, shortly after
the sequel released. Again, the smooth animation was impressive but
the controls much less so. There was always this slight delay between
your keypresses and the on-screen character reacting...

I remember I had that issue with the controls when there was a fan
conversion to the Commodore 64 in 2011. Tried it in the VICE emulator,
noticed the annoying controls, didn't bother to continue. Neat feat to
convert the game to a C64 but the technical solution was a modern
cartridge that could house the entire game. Good for load times and no
swapping of floppy disks but I think sales numbers weren't exactly
great. I suppose the cartridge has other uses though.

I remember playing the PC version of Prince of Persia around 1990 or so
but I have no memory if the controls were good or bad. I probably had
more tolerance for annoying controls back then. Anyways, the controls
were good enough to finish it.