Prince of Persia

Moby ID: 82340
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A remake of the original Apple II version of the influential cinematic platformer Prince of Persia for the Commodore 64. The protagonist must avoid deadly traps and enemies in order to rescue the Sultan's lovely daughter.

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Copyright 1989
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Development

The game was created by disassembling the original Apple II binaries, before Jordan Mechner made his is original source code public. According to Mr. Mechner no-one in 1989 was willing to do a C64 port since the platform was too old.

Memory

The game requires to be run from a special ROM bank switching EasyFlash cartridge to be able to fit into the Commodore 64's 64KB of memory, the original Apple version required 128KB of RAM.

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Game added January 10, 2017. Last modified March 27, 2024.