Creator Of Prince Of Persia Finds Original Source Code In His Dad’s Closet

krooton · 19 Apr 2012 at 08:52

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/30/jo...inds-original-source-code-in-his-dads-closet/

Prince of Persia and Karateka, were two of the best action games of their era. Why? Because they gave us an inkling of what real, fluid graphical motion would look like in a few years’ time and, more important, were pretty much amazing if you were used to the Atari 2600 and River Raid. I remember playing Karateka before school at age ten, chopping my way through enemies on my way to save my sweetie and then, a few years later, playing PoP. Both were amazing.

I played both of these excessively, and now feel very old!

Really cool to have found the old source code though :cool:

Sleepery · 19 Apr 2012 at 09:32

for all fifteen of you 6502 assembly-language coders out there who might care…

I lol'd

I remember my brother spending absolutely ages on 6502 assembly to get a sprite to move across the screen, in a straight line. How anyone actually developed a whole game in it is beyond me.

Clav · 19 Apr 2012 at 09:36

Loved prince of persia, it was really ground breaking at the time!

krooton · 19 Apr 2012 at 09:43

I still remember the little intro midi at the start of the 1st stage

malachi · 19 Apr 2012 at 09:45

I remember the death music when you first land on the pikes. Aways looks painful even now.