Re: Prince of Persia is 35!

Am 24.06.25 um 11:31 schrieb Anssi Saari:

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.

I was a huge fan of POP, the controls aka, the latency are by modern standards bad, but when it came out it did not bother!
And yes the best part of the series and funnily the last time where Jordan Mechner had a saying in the series, was Sands of Time!
The worst part was the last 3d one you literally ran through the same waterpaint levels 10 times to reach the next stage and the rewind mechanism which was a challenge in sand of time basically was an endless life which took all the challenge out of the game! (aka your companion always saved you and put you back into the last safe spot literally 2 seconds before the obstacle)
Funnily originally the next prince of Persia was named.. Prince of Persia Assassins and was supposed to play in Israel/Jordan, we all know what came out of it!