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Prince of Persia

aka: Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia, Pers Prensi, PoP, Prince de Perse, Prince of Persia Retro

Moby ID: 196

[ All ] [ Amiga ] [ Amstrad CPC ] [ Apple II ] [ Atari ST ] [ DOS ] [ FM Towns ] [ Game Boy ] [ Game Boy Color ] [ Game Gear ] [ Genesis ] [ iPad add ] [ iPhone ] [ Macintosh ] [ NES ] [ Nintendo 3DS add ] [ PC-98 ] [ SAM Coupé ] [ SEGA CD ] [ SEGA Master System ] [ Sharp X68000 ] [ SNES ] [ TurboGrafx CD ] [ Wii add ]

Amiga screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Introduction

thumbnail — Starting position

thumbnail — Climbing

thumbnail — Fighting a guard

thumbnail — Got killed...

Amstrad CPC screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Title screen (French version)

thumbnail — Opening story

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — First level

Apple II screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Intro (1)

thumbnail — Intro (2)

thumbnail — Intro (3)

thumbnail — Game start

thumbnail — Find a sword.

thumbnail — Swordfight

thumbnail — Door to the next level

thumbnail — Level 2 - Start of level.

thumbnail — Level 2 - Sword fighting with a guard.

thumbnail — Level 2 - Drinking an elixar to restore health.

thumbnail — Level 2 - Climbing up a ledge.

thumbnail — Level 2 - Got killed by a guard.

thumbnail — Level 3 - Start of level.

thumbnail — Level 3 - Climbing up!

thumbnail — Level 3 - Avoid the trap!

thumbnail — Cutscene - The princess watches the hour glass slowly run out...

thumbnail — Level 4 - Into the palace.

thumbnail — Level 4 - Running

thumbnail — Level 4 - The guards are tougher to beat in the higher levels.

Atari ST screenshots

thumbnail — First level

thumbnail — Title screen.

thumbnail — Find your beloved woman within a hour or everything will be lost.

thumbnail — Starting point.

thumbnail — Killed by deadly spikes.

thumbnail — Sword is your main weapon against all enemies. You must find it quickly.

thumbnail — First fight.

thumbnail — Door to the next level.

thumbnail — Level two.

thumbnail — Red drinks will restore your health.

DOS screenshots

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — The Story...

thumbnail — A Fight in the Dungeons

thumbnail — Watch out for the Snappers

thumbnail — The Search for your mirror image

thumbnail — Must jump before the door closes

thumbnail — An immortal warrior! What to do now?

thumbnail — In level 4 the backgrounds change

thumbnail — A mirror blocking the way

thumbnail — The infamous fat guard in level 6

thumbnail — Found the sword!

thumbnail — Should I take the blue one or the red one?

thumbnail — Ouch!!

thumbnail — We only wanted an ear piercing.

thumbnail — Hey, That bottle is mine!

thumbnail — Killed by a guard...

thumbnail — Cutscene - The princess watches the hourglass slowly run out...

thumbnail — Level 4 - Out of the dungeon and into the palace.

thumbnail — Title Screen (EGA)

thumbnail — Thrown in the dungeon (EGA)

thumbnail — Title Screen (CGA)

thumbnail — Thrown in the dungeon (CGA)

thumbnail — Enter the second level

thumbnail — Spikes!

thumbnail — Crash & Dead

thumbnail — Dead again

thumbnail — Title screen (Hercules)

thumbnail — The princess awaits our return... (Hercules)

thumbnail — Starting our quest (Hercules)

thumbnail — Travelling left from our starting location... (Hercules)

thumbnail — ...we find an essential item for our adventure, a sword (Hercules)

thumbnail — At the start of the game there are three story screens. The first says that Jaffar rules in the sultans absence, then there's a short cut scene followed by this screen

FM Towns screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — Main menu

thumbnail — I hate time limits...

thumbnail — Great... get a sword next time, big dope

thumbnail — Get used to seeing this...

Game Boy screenshots

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — The Story

thumbnail — 1 Hour

thumbnail — Level 1

thumbnail — You must open the gates.

thumbnail — Found the sword!

thumbnail — Encounter with Guard

thumbnail — Level 1 Exit

thumbnail — Shiny

thumbnail — My soul

thumbnail — Level 10

thumbnail — Jaffar

Game Boy Color screenshots

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — Language selection.

thumbnail — Italiano. It's Bellissima and not bellisima, I guess.

thumbnail — Opening Story

thumbnail — First level

thumbnail — Found the sword. Easy.

thumbnail — The first battle. Easy again.

thumbnail — Level 4. Feeling thirsty.

thumbnail — Nops... Arm&Sword are not long enough.

thumbnail — Level 6. Long (suicidal) jump.

thumbnail — This is... nostalgic.

thumbnail — Sucker...

thumbnail — Level 10.

thumbnail — The scenario is not epic... I'm disappointed.

thumbnail — This is not a spoiler. It's just LOVE.

Game Gear screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Options screen

thumbnail — Running

Genesis screenshots

thumbnail — Title

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — Evil plans

thumbnail — I doubt women are allowed to wear such clothes in Persia...

thumbnail — Jaffar with his indiscreet proposal toward the princess

thumbnail — You are thrown into a dungeon

thumbnail — The outfit of the hero is quite different from the one in DOS version

thumbnail — Can't we talk it over?

thumbnail — The door leads to the next level

thumbnail — One of the many ways to die in this game

thumbnail — Some grog won't do damage... or was it just a healing potion?

Macintosh screenshots

thumbnail — Main Screen

thumbnail — You have the sword !

thumbnail — Hang on, princess...

thumbnail — Oh no, it's tragic !

thumbnail — Fat but quickly

thumbnail — Give me your hand, bros !

thumbnail — Sweet dreams...

thumbnail — Intro - Jaffar appears (black & white)

thumbnail — Starting position (black & white)

thumbnail — Facing the first guard (black & white)

NES screenshots

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — Title Screen #2

thumbnail — Cimbing a wall

thumbnail — Skewered

thumbnail — About to be stabbed

thumbnail — Jumping a pit of spikes

thumbnail — Long jump

thumbnail — Splat!

thumbnail — Escape the level after finally opening the exit door

thumbnail — Do battle with a green guard

thumbnail — The first battle with a skeleton

thumbnail — Negotiating the chomper trap

thumbnail — Escape the dungeon and battle through the main castle

thumbnail — Exiting a level in the main castle

thumbnail — A pivotal part of Prince of Persia where you crash through a mirror and release a malevolent reflection

thumbnail — Dealing with 2 chompers whilst your reflection steals your potion

thumbnail — Battling against the backdrop of a starry night

thumbnail — Our hero finds himself back in the dungeon; in this segment, he drinks a potion which makes him float gently down during a fall that would normally kill him

thumbnail — The mouse on the far ledge helps out by pressing the switch stone

thumbnail — This may look like the dungeon, but it actually has windows

PC-98 screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Main menu

thumbnail — PC-98 version introduced the Prince's turban & vest look which became the basis for most later Prince of Persia ports

thumbnail — Japanese computer versions make heavy use of dithering effects to mitigate the limited 16-color palette, so best viewed on a CRT

thumbnail — Lesson learned, don't underestimate the fat guy

thumbnail — In-game press F1 to access the menu, fourth and fifth option (from top) allows you to set the movement and combat speeds

thumbnail — Meanwhile the Princess sends out her pet mouse to help me

thumbnail — Final level

thumbnail — Don't rush me! I'm kind of in a middle of something

thumbnail — Don't fight yourself

thumbnail — You think it's over, right? Princess saved, bad guy killed

thumbnail — Think again! Jaffar shows up and teleports you to bridge for the true final fight (also included in the PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx CD and Sega CD ports which are based on this version)

SAM Coupé screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Game start

thumbnail — I should come back with a sword.

SEGA CD screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — The story cuts between regular static screens...

thumbnail — ... and awful (to say the least) anime-styled screens, everything with voice overs every bit as terrible

thumbnail — The prince preparing to do his "constipated tiger" move on the prison bars

thumbnail — The dramatic hourglass scene

thumbnail — Game mode screen.

thumbnail — Graphics are midway between the 8 and 16 bit versions.

thumbnail — Pretty like Master System...

thumbnail — Prince getting his sword, hoping it will serve him better than it did to his last owner

thumbnail — "Is that a good or a bad potion?", the Prince wonders, looking at the fumes

thumbnail — A fight

thumbnail — If the fight was too fast for you, it's possible to slow down fights and how fast the prince moves.

SEGA Master System screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Options screen

thumbnail — The intro

thumbnail — Starting out in the dungeon

thumbnail — A great fall

thumbnail — Fencing with a guard

thumbnail — Impaled on spikes

SNES screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen.

thumbnail — Main menu.

thumbnail — Torture (Japanese version)

thumbnail — Title screen (Japanese version)

thumbnail — The beginning

thumbnail — A guard is about to shish kabob me

thumbnail — I died

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — I must reach that potion

thumbnail — Looks like I have taken a wrong step

thumbnail — Fighting a guard

thumbnail — Falling down

thumbnail — Hey, that's me!

thumbnail — I've jumped through the mirror

thumbnail — A very large hall

thumbnail — Confronting with a skeleton

thumbnail — That trap looks dangerous!

thumbnail — A tutorial level

thumbnail — Fighting a guard in a palace level.

thumbnail — A duel with an Amazon guard.

thumbnail — Sometimes there are brief outdoor areas, like this nice moonlit bridge that connects two palace towers.

thumbnail — This guard is excellent at fencing.

thumbnail — The Prince's shadow blocks the way.

thumbnail — In the SNES version, the Prince finds himself in some kind of an underworld after the encounter with the shadow.

thumbnail — The underworld levels have appropriately styled flame traps.

thumbnail — The halls of the palace are exquisitely decorated.

thumbnail — The Princess' mouse comes to the rescue.

thumbnail — This is not a door to the next level, it's a teleporter...

thumbnail — ...that will take you to an otherwise unreachable part of the level.

thumbnail — Another part of the palace, another style of decoration. The red carpet doesn't exactly mask the spike traps here.

thumbnail — These heavily armoured guards are either high-ranking officers or some sort of Jaffar's personal elite guard.

thumbnail — "Yoohoo!"

Sharp X68000 screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — Intro - Jaffar and the princess

thumbnail — Game start

thumbnail — Dead

thumbnail — Encounter with a guard

TurboGrafx CD screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen A

thumbnail — Title screen B

thumbnail — The famous time limit...

thumbnail — Hey, wait! I don't have a sword yet!

thumbnail — Typical situation: the Prince is dead

iPhone screenshots

thumbnail — Main Menu

thumbnail — How to play the game

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — why we fight...

thumbnail — Introduction: The Sultan's daughter...

thumbnail — Introduction: Jaffar gives us 60 minutes to free her

thumbnail — Introduction: where is our hero?

thumbnail — ...fighting his way through the dungeon

thumbnail — We better get ourselves a sword

thumbnail — We fell and have to restart from the beginning of the level

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