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Prince of Persia

Rotoscoped animation and weighty ledge grabs made acrobatic traversal a readable physical performance.

Released 1989 Developer Broderbund Platform Apple II Genre Platformer Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Prince of Persia inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Flip-Screen Room Graph 1980Hit Points 1980In-Engine Cutscene 1984Momentum-Based Platform Control 1985

Descends from

Karateka 1984

The Prince of Persia series in this dataset

1989
Prince of Persia this page
2003

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