Re: Prince of Persia is 35!

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:31:24 +0300, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

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.

I don't know if the controls were BAD. They were quite DIFFERENT from
other platformers, though, since your character had more momentum and
didn't react in the same way. I didn't LIKE how the game controlled
though. I preferred a more immediate reaction to my button presses.
But arguably the way the character moved was more realistic and -if
you gave the game a chance and learned the new mechanics- it
controlled well.

The different controls were an obstacle, though, and not one I
bothered to overcome.

(Well, I guess I finally did with "Prince of Persia 2" but any muscle
memory I gained from playing that game has long left me and I still
struggle with the original platformers ;-)