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  • Prince of Persia is 35!

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 19 05:47:48 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhK0kvH58I from/and https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/prince-of-persia
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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Tue Jun 24 12:31:24 2025
    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.

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 08:10:27 2025
    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!

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Jun 26 06:03:29 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/@Nick930 has some long documentaries of video
    game franchises like Prince of Persia, Call of Duty, Battlefield,
    Wolfenstein, Half-Life, Doom, etc. I didn't watch all of them since
    they're so long and haven't played the recent games.


    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhK0kvH58I from/and https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/prince-of-persia

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 26 09:39:11 2025
    On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:03:29 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/@Nick930 has some long documentaries of video
    game franchises like Prince of Persia, Call of Duty, Battlefield, >Wolfenstein, Half-Life, Doom, etc. I didn't watch all of them since
    they're so long and haven't played the recent games.

    There are many youtube channels that do this type of long
    retrospective. It is probably best to just type "<name of game>
    retrospective" in youtube's search engine.

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