A History of Persia

During my time off the Internet this summer, I've been working on several things - music, MMF, and so on - and also been playing a lot of Prince of Persia. A classic from when I was about eight years old, it was the first game that genuinely scared me - I used to have nightmares about that mirror. Even the mirror room in Silent Hill 3 pales in comparison to it.

With the discovery of the Internet I could relive the game again, and as I've played so many different versions I was suddenly inspired last night to do a comparison of all the games that have existed in the series, to show what version is the ultimate Prince once and for all.

"But the second game's not even out yet!" I hear someone say from the back. And to you, sir, I say: Shut up and go and sit in the corner. And here's your Dunce hat. Yes, a game called "Prince of Persia 2" is about to be released, but even ignoring all the different versions on each system, there have been at least five games so far, and the differences between some "same" games on different systems is so enormous that they might as well be different games entirely.

Here's an overview of some of the earliest of them. Observe, or listen, or read, or something.

( David X. Newton's History of Persia )

OK, that's enough Prince, I think. I did have a tenth version, the Amstrad CPC one, but it refused to run no matter what I did.

I don't know, it seemed like a great idea last night.

Kurzartikel.

"What moron messed up the width of the screen with that poll?" was my first thought when I looked at The Sinner today. Yes, unfortunately it was this moron.

Anyway, after that 2,500 word titan yesterday (take that, Livejournal) here's a short entry to make up for it.

Happy birthday, Whitney!