I am 56 years old and I have just watched the whole video, it is incredible the memories I have of this game. I can say that it was the first game I could finish in my life and believe me it cost me more than 3 months. I feel a great nostalgia about this game because they were my first steps in knowing that it was a computer. I really just returned to my youth.
@@ThrowedGenji Look there was a game that I think was one of the first and it was called "Lizard" it was from the late 80s and then the most addictive one was Doom "(1992).What a good times the 80s and 90s
I was in my early 20s when this came out, used to play it at work instead of doing any actual work. Look at me now, commenting on youtube, gone far in life.
I could not finish this game, and it got lost to time. Feels like a mystery is solved now when I watch it. Kudos for the channel author, for posting this here.
The fact that after 30 years I can still remember most of these levels, is the likely reason that I cannot memorize more than 3 items on my wife's shopping list. Because there is all this useful stuff in my brain.
Eh, I have memories of it too, but then, I got the game for DOS and can now play it anytime I want. To be able to go back through the game today, is better than a memory of playing it.
@@axintesebastian2852 You sure, you wanted to reply to me? My comment was meant in humor, you know, having to worry about playing too much. Seriously, I got a sinew inflammation from playing PoP.
Imagine being a guard of one of the lower levels. Your shift ends, and now you have to spend over half an hour avoiding death traps and replacing fallen floor panels before you can finally go home.
I'm not even scared of heights in real life, but this game makes my heart feel like it's going to jump out of my chest every time the prince gets near an edge.
I am. Except when I rappel or parachute. But I CAN'T be high on something anchored to the earth. My brain starts screaming at me JUMP DOWN NOW!!! My brother is a choper pilot and he has the same thing. Fear of heights is a LOT more complex than it seems.
@@TheJimprez It's called "The call of the void," if you wanna search for it. It's a common phenomenon. Someone said it was a way our brain keeps us safe -- that impulse makes us imagine what it is like to jump down, and imagining it ensures a strong emotional response. That response is fear and apprehension, making sure we don't fall down.
The original was kinda motion captured (They filmed the player and converted it into the 2D sprite). Atleast this is what I've heard and I don't know about this version of the game.
The animation technique you're describing is called rotoscoping and is done by drawing the sprites over the footage frame-by-frame. What's impressive to me isn't that the animation is so smooth in 1992 - the tech was there by then (we started getting 3D games like DOOM the year after) - it was that it was smooth and also controlled incredibly well. It achieved this by mapping your movements to large tiles so it was easy to anticipate when to hold or let go of the keys. Other games at the time that incorporated realistic rotoscoped animation felt floaty, unresponsive and awkward in comparison. Lord of the Rings on SNES comes to mind (although it came out in 1994).
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It was very, very impressive when it launched. This and Another World had me marvelled.
80s kids also played this game dearly when we got a chance. Many times in school computers. I got my own when I was teenage and the day before I went for my college admission and seat confirmation, I was playing this game.. hahahha.
@@TungstenViper yes we are proud to be born in late 80's and early 90's coz we saw substantial change in the technology world. We are in a transition phase where we saw revolution in the computer technology. Rivals/competitors example gates and jobs and others coming up with new stuff daily. Video Games played on TV. Lots of good cartoons like popoye the sailor man on cartoon Network. We were very happy as kids while having this transformation. And yeah we used to play a lot physically outside our homes unlike present kids today.
30 years ago I played it with my childhood friends in local library, we were so hooked and eager to meet up there every day just to see what's beyond lvl 7 or 8... I still remember the mouse, flying potion and levels. Masterpiece
I remembered playing this when I was a kid. I never beat it because it was hard and confusing so I gave up. I never came back to it even now as an adult. Watching this fulfills my nostalgia. Thank you.
I played this game when I was a kid and this game is INSANELY HARD to play. I never able to finish the game because the time is always up no matter how much trial I played. I never know how the ending was until I see this video. Thank you for uploading this amazing video. Now my childhood is complete
Yes me too....one wrong move and swoosh...u die!...... ...need a lot of practice and patient.also hafta remember eve move to finish!.... In real life this MC should have to reincarnate many life!lol....
@@matadordeleoes my parents didn't think so. Nor did the teachers. They never had a 7 year old skip classes. In hindsight it was dumb to do it for a week straight.
@Greg F. A few years age difference could be the deciding factor there, I never had a problem with it retro-playing through it, but when it was new, only my older brother could beat it.
I was only 11 years old when the game came out and I thought it had the greatest graphics in the world and for the time that it came out, it pretty much did have the most realistic graphics. The way that the body moved and the way the character interacted with its environment, the seamless aesthetics, the compelling engagement with other characters. This game was literally a major part of my life growing up and one of a kind. We had this and Doom at the same time and as cool as Doom was, this was light years ahead with graphics and it came out a year before Doom did.
@@ivankeskic4404 absolutely. No question about it. Doom was far less superior with its 2D scan overly mapping compared to Red Orb's actual 3D computer graphics rendering, a much cleaner and smoother and seamless environment. It was the first virtual 3D rendering in the world and it blew Doom way out of the water because Doom was literally just a stop motion graphics overlay. I'm a huge Doom fan and I actually have known one of the creators for my entire life so I have major respect for their creations and they certainly have their place. He is my mother's best friends husband so he's quite literally my uncle and He let my brother and I beta test Wolfenstein 3D, Quake and Doom where he worked at i.d. These games were a huge part of my life growing up and spend a majority of my summers at their campus or whenever my mom needed a vacation and wanted to see her best friend. Since we lived so far away, we would spend a good week or two at their house and my uncle would take all of us kids into the studio and we woke hang out with all the devs and they would link all of the PC's so we could play a huge "multiparty bat file game" as they called it of Wolfenstein 3D. Yes Doom and Wolfenstein had groundbreaking immersive fps environments but as far as actual computer graphics, Rd Orb beat i.d. to the punch. In fact, I would spend many hours in the i.d. think lab playing Prince of Persia and if you go take a look at Quake II you will see why they let me play so many hours of Prince of Persia in their think lab. Looking back now at least that's what I tell myself because they were playing it and watching my brother and I play it quite a bit.
@@LiveTUNA I've been a fan and player of both games since they came out and you are the first person I ever heard to say something like this.. It must be that you define graphics in some other way than all the people I've ever met. Would you be so kind to elaborate? Are you talking about the looks and movement of the game from the end users point of view, or some hidden "back end" stuff?
@@ivankeskic4404 for sure. 2D scan mapping was no less a tedious job because they actually used stop motion for all of the characters. Meaning they were in the studio and they had clay mation figures of each character that they would map out and manipulate then scan for each movement. Then they would then overly this into 2D graphics. For the 80's it was great theatrical fun to see in movies, but it was a quickly dying gimmick with the invention of computer graphics 3D CGI which was being used in the Prince of Persia game. It was much cleaner and more seamless even without it being less immersive.
This was the first game I ever played. I remember when I was a 7 year old kid in Nigeria in 2002, my dad brought home a COMPAQ desktop (the first computer we ever owned) and open of his friends installed Prince of Persia for Windows and I played it whenever I could. Still love it to this day😌
How did they manage to get those graphics and those animations at that times is still beyond my understanding to this day! One of the best games ever made during that classic era!🌟💯
The graphics are gorgeous, simple and clean. This still holds up today and the Macintosh version looks the best version I have seen on ANY formate and I'm a PC and CONSOLE boy :) Only thing I never liked about this game was the character controls could sometimes feel clunky, like when you stopped and started running, or when you were repositioning yourself to climb up or jump, it just felt like labored slightly, like you were controlling a fat man or a small truck on some kind of grid, that is the only valid critique I can make of an otherwise masterpiece and I suspect there was a technical reason is was like that. This and another world were special games indeed.
Brilliantly played like a pro! Brought back old memories from the 90s! This was one of my favorite games. Was never able to beat this game then, didn't know at that time that I will finally be able to see the happy ending in 2022 during the covid pandemic! 😅👍👌👏
I remember drinking a potion which flips the screen. I had to play the remaining with my CRT monitor flipped upside down to correct the view. Hard times.
That's the green potion on Level 9, which this player passes by at 27:15. There's another green potion nearby (a couple of floors below the scene at 27:30) that flips the screen again.
@@hiwelcometochillis2579 I played this game in DOS - there is not monitor flip setting. only option is to upside down and the the arrow keys confusion as well
Sultan: Architect! Build me a palace. Architect: any special features? Sultan: yes. No stairs. Lazy ass guards need exercise. Architecht: WTF? Ok. What floors would you like? Sultan: A mix of nice and dungeon. Oh. And make sure there are lots of loose floorboards that can fall into the abyss. I like to surprise my guests. Architect: ??? Wha? Ok. And doors? Sultan: Dungeon style. Metal bars. Lots and lots of metal bar doors. Architect: sure... Doesn't sound insane at all...
Sultan: oh, don't forget spikes traps here and there. Architect: must be precious treasures you are keeping, your majesty. Sultan: a young chick. Architect: of course...
Yes, was a shame that marketing problemas ruined the perception of game. I saw it on a magazine on 1997 and on year later I found it original, was around $20 usd of today
@@jlatala4655 Yes, I agree. And the worst of all is that there is no sequel. I wish he made more games. He's a bit like Will Wright and other devs, in the way that he rarely releases something.
Great memories to this game. My sister and I played it together to solve all miracles and to find all possible ways to go through. It took us a month to get through. Its just a great game. We loved to play it on our first PC at the beginning 1990’. Thank you for your video!
Such a great game. Way ahead of its time for the animation and sampled sounds, but walkthrough misses perhaps the most impressive part: The many gruesome deaths with sickening sound effects.
Вспомнил молодость, сколько за рабочим компьютером было потрачено времени на эту игрушку! Пожалуй лучшая для своего времени! Видно, мне хватило, теперь уже за играми не сижу! Всему свое время, хотя наверное, кому как!
Помню мамка взяла меня с собой на работу(она работала бухгалтером) и там был комп! и мне включили эту игру! я играл почти целый день впервые в жизни сидел за компом! это был наверное год 1996 и мне было лет 7. За окном стреляли а я был вдалеке от всего этого. комп мне купили наверно только в году 2005
Great game, great memories. I especially loved the plot twists like jumping through the mirror, the shadow screwing you, the princess sending mice to help... Never was I able to finish it. And those cutting blades - dreadful, even today.
When I was young I played this game on a PC and the PC version looks different. The assets look a bit different like the fire lights on the wall, the enemies, the main character etc. However the game itself has the same layout and it brought back memories. I remember beating this game multiple times as a kid, but I learned a lot of new tricks after watching this.
OMFG your mirror!, so that's what you had to do. After 25 years I finally know... I kept fighting him and every time you hit him you lose health, I couldn't figure it out. This is why i watched it.
@@brianlam257 He sheathed his sword, like what he does to guard when he doesn't want to fight with them anymore. Since your mirror does the same things as you do, he'll sheath his sword too. Then you can join back with your darkside :)
Growing up with the IBM version, I don't like the way the prince is overdressed here. The simple white robes and bare feet in the IBM version were perfect, and made the most sense for someone escaping from a medieval dungeon who's fighting against time to save the princess and doing a lot of tricky platforming. The clock in the Mac version should start at 40 minutes because he spent 20 minutes dressing.
+LemonSlice Overdressed? He is the Prince after all... I don't see why they would change his casual clothing into rags before throwing him into the cellar? Unless the Prince is regularly dressed like a 'bum'. ;)
The Macintosh version had the best sound and best graphics. My screen was black and white which added to the ambiance. I was terrified of this game as a kid :D
Я в эту игрушку играл в 1993 году, на работе. Тогда это была круть неимоверная. Кто бы тогда мог подумать, что компьютеры будут в каждом доме, да по нескольку штук...
Princess: Can you come over? Price: Now? Your castle is full of traps and heavily guarded by solders! Princess: I'm home alone. Prince: Say no more (grab sword and prepare for a bloodbath)
I still remember the first time I made to the end had under 60 seconds left. My elder brother was sitting next to me. The last level had high jumps and if you miss one that’s it. Jaffer was hard but managed to kill him and I think the time stopped as soon he was killed. What a memory!!!
I'm a gen Z kid, and I just get to know this. Learning how limited it was in the computers back then and I'm impressed by how much content this consists.
You are a God, stranger guy who passed the thoughest game in the world of all the times! You have unblocked every single bad I had since I met this game, in my sweet childhood. I feel different since today.
Haha, the final boss looked easier than the 'fat guard' or skeleton enemies. So many nostalgic memories of dying repeatedly in this hard game when I was a young child haha.... well played. Glad to finally see the whole game and ending. Closure.
Of course, im one level there is a potion that you can get, but in getting that, you awaken an army of skeletons. The only thing you can do is run away, and then there is that nice "phew" moment if you're finally safe...
@@waytothewill Linger? That boss is actually pretty easy. You can lure him into taking a step toward you and if you attack at the right time, you catch him off guard.
I bought my first computer in 1999 and this was one of the first games installed along with Dave Dangerous and a few others, I have spent countless nights training myself and completing this game. I was a hero for my younger brother and my nephews and nieces. They use to surround me while I play the game. After completing it, all the keystrokes have gone into my muscles memory. After genuinely completing it I have learned shortcuts to jump levels etc (I guess Ctrl+L) was the shortcut for that. Later I tried to install this on my laptop but it did not work, not sure if I need to get another Windows 98 or virtual box to run it. Many thanks for posting it mate, it has made me feel 23 years younger... cheers
I remember the game as very hard because the controls were lagging, so you had to anticipate the guy's movements which was driving me nuts. Never managed to get far.
Wow, thank you for playing and sharing this! Nvr thought I would be able to see the complete playthrough. I played this as a kid on my cousin’s computer and it never looked this good and I could not go beyond the first half of the game.
I always got out due to the time, I wasted killing every guard. Today after watching this video, I understood that I was suppose to run away from them as much as possible.
Я прошёл её целиком, потратив месяца 3 жизни)) смерть на любом уровне и ты опять все с начала, с 1 уровня. Это было жестоко. После неё, я в игры практически не играл
In the SNES version, which is like a super remake of it, it is epic. With magic and a crap ton of hit points. But you still gotta cheese him. He is the one enemy that will perfect parry you always. Once you do cheese him though just same old stabby stab till dead nonstop routine.
First time trying to finish this game I realized that I was too late because of a timer which made the gate close, never to open again. Awesome game. Thanks for the upload bro ♥♥♥♥♥
The SektorZ Macs really didn’t get enough respect, just because their game library was thinner. I grew up on mac games so I can’t relate to the nostalgia for DOS, the graphics look like ass. Most of the worthwhile games got mac ports anyway, it filtered out a lot of crap.
Me on an 1 MHz Apple II with color graphics card. Black, green, violet, red and blue, and I will never forget these values: Whopping 279*192 pixels in $2000 bytes of memory!!!!!
386 DX-16, 4 MB RAM and a green screen Hercules monochrome graphics monitor. 80 MB HDD and 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. And a Quarter Inch Cartridge tape backup system!
It was actually originally on the Apple II, a system which was obsolete by that point. It was an amazing technical achievement for that platform, but the music sounded like wet farts.
I remember playing the mac version in the computer lab when I was a kid, and I bought the PC version, and was very, very disappointed. They even used Macintosh images on the box.
@@human678 Well, tbh, I don't really like realism in games. I think it takes away a lot of the charm from games. However, to see the dedication programmers put into making this old school game have these details is totally commendable. Simply because of the vast contrast the graphics are compared to the quality of the animation, it balances out very well.
I used to play this game with my friends, this video is nostalgic. Those friends are still with me. I don't know how this video came to my field but it feels good. Thanks to the author of this channel
This "Prince of Persia" game is one of the best games I have ever played apart from "Dangerous Dave". I had completed this game once but with great difficulty as I was unable to find the path through this maze type castle.
A favorite game. We were able to get the first level down to 30 seconds after discovering that the game ASSUMED you retrieved the sword when you needed it so automatically gave it to you. In other words, there was a way to skip getting the sword.
it is only that if you already played like for 2 days. this game design is maded in a way that you dont finish it in time and have to replay everthing again faster until you get in perfection on the moves just to play it to its ends
Graphics looks better than the DOS version that I had on a floppy disk when I was in school, used to play this a lot on windows comps. But I think the animation on DOS was smoother.
I completed this game recently, in its hidden version for PlayStation 2... this is inside Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I played it with the AetherSX2 emulator, on my phone. What a masterpiece! Really impressive for the time and still looks amazing. Long live Jordan Mechner!
I try to love the new games but I just can't man it's so far from what gaming really is. Every game seems like a variation of GTA or God of War. You run around visually realistic enviroments just hacking or gunning where is the creativity! The game are not interesting they dont grab me, not to mention the abuse of microtransactions
@@ThrowedGenji those modern ego shooters are boring.... also the modern graphics dont convince me , they all look the same more or less. stille one of the best arcade games is super streetfighter 2 and that is another old game. they did not manage to make a martial arts game as playable as super streetfighter 2
@@timnic9242 right its like ok we get it its suppose to look realistic but its boring now. Super street fighter 2 is awesome! played it so much. I love Alpha 3 to. The fighters nowadays are ok nothing I would go n buy
Modern games don't only consist of FPSs. Look at Celeste or Undertale and you will find that old flavour mixed in with the capabilities of modern technology. Mario Odyssey is a 3D one and it still has that cartoonish charm of the old mario games but also has gorgeus envinronments and more elements of gameplay
And outside the window is January 2022, you see, I'm not the only one remembering the past! I remember very well how much time was spent on passing this game back in 1992. At the time, it was the most iconic game ever!
Man, that grey shadow version of the prince scared me when I was a kid. I got stuck long before the ending, so I never learned that I would just re-merge with him when we met up. It all seems less scary now.
When I played, I thought I have to kill it. But one of my friend said "It is your shadow, if you kill it you will also die. You have join into it. It will do same as you do"
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I am 56 years old and I have just watched the whole video, it is incredible the memories I have of this game. I can say that it was the first game I could finish in my life and believe me it cost me more than 3 months. I feel a great nostalgia about this game because they were my first steps in knowing that it was a computer.
I really just returned to my youth.
what other classic games do u love?
Youth? You were already old when this came out.
JUST ARROWS AND "CTRL" TO JUMP. SHIFT FOR RUN AND JUMP. NO 4000 BUTTONS, NO JOYPADS, NO WIFI CONNECTION. GREAT!!
@@ThrowedGenji Look there was a game that I think was one of the first and it was called "Lizard" it was from the late 80s and then the most addictive one was Doom "(1992).What a good times the 80s and 90s
@@kabouterwesley83 By the time of the game Prince of Persia I was already 28 years old, can you believe it?
It is funny how we adult are coming here just to see how to beat this game and why we could not beat it in childhood
This game was hard as fuck
True
Is even more funny the people who says "it wasnt that hard" they re problably seeing this jewel for the first time
I did beat it at childhood tho
I was in my early 20s when this came out, used to play it at work instead of doing any actual work. Look at me now, commenting on youtube, gone far in life.
I could not finish this game, and it got lost to time. Feels like a mystery is solved now when I watch it. Kudos for the channel author, for posting this here.
I finished it after a lot of attempts when I was in 7th grade 😅
Me too:)
Haha yeah the 1 hour timer... they sure knew how to make games fun back in the days...
@@Juhmeri yup exactly and I think these are still the best games ...my memories ❤️
The fact that after 30 years I can still remember most of these levels, is the likely reason that I cannot memorize more than 3 items on my wife's shopping list. Because there is all this useful stuff in my brain.
Man, this game brings a lot of memories. Life was good when we were children, no worries. I am missing those times.
Eh, I have memories of it too, but then, I got the game for DOS and can now play it anytime I want. To be able to go back through the game today, is better than a memory of playing it.
No worries??? I had to stop playing this, because I got a sinew infalmmation from playing so much :D
Yes, because your parents did everything for you. To live your life like that you need a lot of money.
@@etherealicer you're right. They did, but I don't understand what you want to asume with this...
@@axintesebastian2852 You sure, you wanted to reply to me?
My comment was meant in humor, you know, having to worry about playing too much. Seriously, I got a sinew inflammation from playing PoP.
Imagine being a guard of one of the lower levels. Your shift ends, and now you have to spend over half an hour avoiding death traps and replacing fallen floor panels before you can finally go home.
Lol
And when you get out you realise you left your keys at your work station...
At some point an entire floor of the palace collapses
I don't know who is going to repair that
So the premise of Viscera Cleanup Detail, but in 2D? Add in a level creation mode a la Super Mario Maker, and...
I was asking same question 26 years ago :D
I'm not even scared of heights in real life, but this game makes my heart feel like it's going to jump out of my chest every time the prince gets near an edge.
I am. Except when I rappel or parachute. But I CAN'T be high on something anchored to the earth. My brain starts screaming at me JUMP DOWN NOW!!!
My brother is a choper pilot and he has the same thing. Fear of heights is a LOT more complex than it seems.
@@TheJimprez nice approach. It may not be just a fear of heights but something more complex as you say
@@TheJimprez It's called "The call of the void," if you wanna search for it. It's a common phenomenon. Someone said it was a way our brain keeps us safe -- that impulse makes us imagine what it is like to jump down, and imagining it ensures a strong emotional response. That response is fear and apprehension, making sure we don't fall down.
Especially when the character jumps and you can't see that he caught the edge of the platform!
Hahaha..yup
The detail of movement is impressive for 1992 game isn't it?
The original was kinda motion captured (They filmed the player and converted it into the 2D sprite). Atleast this is what I've heard and I don't know about this version of the game.
Absolutly ! It must be one of the reasons why the game is considered so cool. I never played it but just by looking i have to totaly agree with you
GoodOlKuro is correct the original dev filmed his brother then cut out everything from the video and used that to make the model over
The animation technique you're describing is called rotoscoping and is done by drawing the sprites over the footage frame-by-frame. What's impressive to me isn't that the animation is so smooth in 1992 - the tech was there by then (we started getting 3D games like DOOM the year after) - it was that it was smooth and also controlled incredibly well. It achieved this by mapping your movements to large tiles so it was easy to anticipate when to hold or let go of the keys. Other games at the time that incorporated realistic rotoscoped animation felt floaty, unresponsive and awkward in comparison. Lord of the Rings on SNES comes to mind (although it came out in 1994).
It was very, very impressive when it launched. This and Another World had me marvelled.
All the comments section are 90's kid including me. Hail the 90's.
lol. why do you people like the 90s so much? just because you were born during those times?
Actually 90's kids are late 80's borns, bcoz 90's born doesn't have any idea about this.
80s kids also played this game dearly when we got a chance. Many times in school computers. I got my own when I was teenage and the day before I went for my college admission and seat confirmation, I was playing this game.. hahahha.
Monkey Island, hollywood monsters, maníac mansion, im so wooded
@@TungstenViper yes we are proud to be born in late 80's and early 90's coz we saw substantial change in the technology world. We are in a transition phase where we saw revolution in the computer technology. Rivals/competitors example gates and jobs and others coming up with new stuff daily. Video Games played on TV. Lots of good cartoons like popoye the sailor man on cartoon Network. We were very happy as kids while having this transformation. And yeah we used to play a lot physically outside our homes unlike present kids today.
30 years ago I played it with my childhood friends in local library, we were so hooked and eager to meet up there every day just to see what's beyond lvl 7 or 8... I still remember the mouse, flying potion and levels. Masterpiece
I remembered playing this when I was a kid. I never beat it because it was hard and confusing so I gave up. I never came back to it even now as an adult. Watching this fulfills my nostalgia. Thank you.
SAME
I played this game when I was a kid and this game is INSANELY HARD to play. I never able to finish the game because the time is always up no matter how much trial I played. I never know how the ending was until I see this video. Thank you for uploading this amazing video. Now my childhood is complete
yeah my only memory of this game is that it was impossibly hard.
Me either..
@Dat Phung same lol! never even reached 4 lvl
I was never able to get a sword. I didn't know there were sword fights! LOL
Yes me too....one wrong move and swoosh...u die!......
...need a lot of practice and patient.also hafta remember eve move to finish!....
In real life this MC should have to reincarnate many life!lol....
Memories…my mom and I used to play it together! She still misses it and so do I
I'm sure you could download it and play it with her if you just search online for a few minutes.
It was also published on Super Nintendo, and is relatively cheap.
I recall playing it with my brother when I was like 7 years of age, I was scared, man, lol
Wtf is that name girl😂😂
Indian?
Childhood game, old days memories 😸
OMG I PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS 5....
@@kevincapa2193 Same.
i got caught playing this after skipping school, first time i actually got into trouble,
@@vaisakhchandran4822 hahahahaha , nice one
@@matadordeleoes my parents didn't think so. Nor did the teachers. They never had a 7 year old skip classes. In hindsight it was dumb to do it for a week straight.
Man, I remember playing this game as a kid but was never able to beat it .
Yea it wasn't that hard
Stupid flying heads used to get me all the time.
Same here I was scared of falling tiles
I went through the whole game without dying once and still used to run out if time on the last level
@Greg F. A few years age difference could be the deciding factor there, I never had a problem with it retro-playing through it, but when it was new, only my older brother could beat it.
I was only 11 years old when the game came out and I thought it had the greatest graphics in the world and for the time that it came out, it pretty much did have the most realistic graphics. The way that the body moved and the way the character interacted with its environment, the seamless aesthetics, the compelling engagement with other characters. This game was literally a major part of my life growing up and one of a kind. We had this and Doom at the same time and as cool as Doom was, this was light years ahead with graphics and it came out a year before Doom did.
ahead of Doom in graphics? light years? ..are you sure??
@@ivankeskic4404 absolutely. No question about it. Doom was far less superior with its 2D scan overly mapping compared to Red Orb's actual 3D computer graphics rendering, a much cleaner and smoother and seamless environment. It was the first virtual 3D rendering in the world and it blew Doom way out of the water because Doom was literally just a stop motion graphics overlay. I'm a huge Doom fan and I actually have known one of the creators for my entire life so I have major respect for their creations and they certainly have their place. He is my mother's best friends husband so he's quite literally my uncle and He let my brother and I beta test Wolfenstein 3D, Quake and Doom where he worked at i.d. These games were a huge part of my life growing up and spend a majority of my summers at their campus or whenever my mom needed a vacation and wanted to see her best friend. Since we lived so far away, we would spend a good week or two at their house and my uncle would take all of us kids into the studio and we woke hang out with all the devs and they would link all of the PC's so we could play a huge "multiparty bat file game" as they called it of Wolfenstein 3D. Yes Doom and Wolfenstein had groundbreaking immersive fps environments but as far as actual computer graphics, Rd Orb beat i.d. to the punch. In fact, I would spend many hours in the i.d. think lab playing Prince of Persia and if you go take a look at Quake II you will see why they let me play so many hours of Prince of Persia in their think lab. Looking back now at least that's what I tell myself because they were playing it and watching my brother and I play it quite a bit.
@@LiveTUNA I've been a fan and player of both games since they came out and you are the first person I ever heard to say something like this.. It must be that you define graphics in some other way than all the people I've ever met. Would you be so kind to elaborate? Are you talking about the looks and movement of the game from the end users point of view, or some hidden "back end" stuff?
If I only I could have figured out how to make it past the first jump
@@ivankeskic4404 for sure. 2D scan mapping was no less a tedious job because they actually used stop motion for all of the characters. Meaning they were in the studio and they had clay mation figures of each character that they would map out and manipulate then scan for each movement. Then they would then overly this into 2D graphics. For the 80's it was great theatrical fun to see in movies, but it was a quickly dying gimmick with the invention of computer graphics 3D CGI which was being used in the Prince of Persia game. It was much cleaner and more seamless even without it being less immersive.
there was no google no hi tech software yet this guy managed to design such a beautiful game. absolute genius !
december 2021 ... i'm 37 years old now ... i remember playing this game in 1993 or 94 ... so much emotions thank you🌹🌺
This was the first game I ever played. I remember when I was a 7 year old kid in Nigeria in 2002, my dad brought home a COMPAQ desktop (the first computer we ever owned) and open of his friends installed Prince of Persia for Windows and I played it whenever I could. Still love it to this day😌
sure that was the 486 desktop all in one piece. seemed like a 14´´ TV
How did they manage to get those graphics and those animations at that times is still beyond my understanding to this day! One of the best games ever made during that classic era!🌟💯
How much more to the games we have now... Humans are amazing creatures 😊❤️
For sure. I played it a few years later on PC and didnt lool anything as good as here on the mac
Jordan Mechner recorded his brother on a video camera & rotoscoped it. There are many videos of it & a making of book he wrote.
@@bingobongo1615mac had the orginale to but they got remake of this game.
The graphics are gorgeous, simple and clean. This still holds up today and the Macintosh version looks the best version I have seen on ANY formate and I'm a PC and CONSOLE boy :)
Only thing I never liked about this game was the character controls could sometimes feel clunky, like when you stopped and started running, or when you were repositioning yourself to climb up or jump, it just felt like labored slightly, like you were controlling a fat man or a small truck on some kind of grid, that is the only valid critique I can make of an otherwise masterpiece and I suspect there was a technical reason is was like that.
This and another world were special games indeed.
Brilliantly played like a pro! Brought back old memories from the 90s! This was one of my favorite games. Was never able to beat this game then, didn't know at that time that I will finally be able to see the happy ending in 2022 during the covid pandemic! 😅👍👌👏
I remember drinking a potion which flips the screen. I had to play the remaining with my CRT monitor flipped upside down to correct the view. Hard times.
Hahahah nice.
Lol I flip the image with the monitor settings. Then my dad asked why me and my sister did that. I remember My sister was so good at this game
That's the green potion on Level 9, which this player passes by at 27:15. There's another green potion nearby (a couple of floors below the scene at 27:30) that flips the screen again.
@@hiwelcometochillis2579 I played this game in DOS - there is not monitor flip setting. only option is to upside down and the the arrow keys confusion as well
@@pperiathambi me too bro. those were the days..
Sultan: Architect! Build me a palace.
Architect: any special features?
Sultan: yes. No stairs. Lazy ass guards need exercise.
Architecht: WTF? Ok. What floors would you like?
Sultan: A mix of nice and dungeon. Oh. And make sure there are lots of loose floorboards that can fall into the abyss. I like to surprise my guests.
Architect: ??? Wha? Ok. And doors?
Sultan: Dungeon style. Metal bars. Lots and lots of metal bar doors.
Architect: sure... Doesn't sound insane at all...
Play Mario bro
engineer man... architect does not do anything
Architect will loose his/her head if they say NO
Sultan behaves pretty much like a modern customers. And so does architect 😆
Sultan: oh, don't forget spikes traps here and there.
Architect: must be precious treasures you are keeping, your majesty.
Sultan: a young chick.
Architect: of course...
Simply amazing, thanks for solving the ever unsolved mystery that I had in my childhood, kudos to your dedication for perfection
I was scared of this game when younger...
Mr. Mechner is a legend, I love his game "The Last Express". He knew how to use rotoscoping well.
Yes, was a shame that marketing problemas ruined the perception of game. I saw it on a magazine on 1997 and on year later I found it original, was around $20 usd of today
@@jlatala4655 Yes, I agree. And the worst of all is that there is no sequel. I wish he made more games.
He's a bit like Will Wright and other devs, in the way that he rarely releases something.
Even now this makes me happy probably 25 years since i last saw or played this game,thanks for upload.
Great memories to this game. My sister and I played it together to solve all miracles and to find all possible ways to go through. It took us a month to get through. Its just a great game. We loved to play it on our first PC at the beginning 1990’. Thank you for your video!
I'm literally crying inside, seriously, not Nostalgia, gamestalgia
But you died in 1991 before even this game was created)))
So,yestalgia?
@@Alcapon3711 haha ironically I was born in 1991, there's something relevant to my name on my channel take a look. My name is parsi Indian too
The original game was created in 1989 and btw as I know Freddie was persian
@@EuropeanGeisha he's not Persian, he's a parsi, parsi is his faith and his ancestors parents all were born in India. India is mixed race
Such a great game. Way ahead of its time for the animation and sampled sounds, but walkthrough misses perhaps the most impressive part: The many gruesome deaths with sickening sound effects.
Вспомнил молодость, сколько за рабочим компьютером было потрачено времени на эту игрушку! Пожалуй лучшая для своего времени! Видно, мне хватило, теперь уже за играми не сижу! Всему свое время, хотя наверное, кому как!
мы на Дэнди играли
Помню мамка взяла меня с собой на работу(она работала бухгалтером) и там был комп! и мне включили эту игру! я играл почти целый день впервые в жизни сидел за компом! это был наверное год 1996 и мне было лет 7. За окном стреляли а я был вдалеке от всего этого. комп мне купили наверно только в году 2005
I like youtube translation system 😉 now I can read your comments guys
@@Временнозаблокировал У Меня так же....
This looks and sounds really good, and the animation is smooth! Amazing for old game.
Ahh.. The good old days! 💞 It tooks me days to even reach level 2. This game was insanely hard. 🖤
I remember playing this at my cousins house. Took a few visits but was able to make it through finally. This brings back some great gaming memories.
I can't believe how old I feel watching this now :')
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Good to see an Indian comment here :)
Vinayak Shivhare indians are the new Jews?
u r very old
From assam?
Great game, great memories. I especially loved the plot twists like jumping through the mirror, the shadow screwing you, the princess sending mice to help... Never was I able to finish it. And those cutting blades - dreadful, even today.
When I was young I played this game on a PC and the PC version looks different. The assets look a bit different like the fire lights on the wall, the enemies, the main character etc. However the game itself has the same layout and it brought back memories. I remember beating this game multiple times as a kid, but I learned a lot of new tricks after watching this.
same here. I found video with all various versions th-cam.com/video/0q_6tOpnquI/w-d-xo.html
OMFG your mirror!, so that's what you had to do. After 25 years I finally know... I kept fighting him and every time you hit him you lose health, I couldn't figure it out. This is why i watched it.
Actually even when you have more health than him. The last stab is deadly no matter how much health you have left.
I don't understand what he did actually, pacing back and forth?
Same here! I was always getting stuck at this place. Now I know after 20 years!
@@brianlam257 He sheathed his sword, like what he does to guard when he doesn't want to fight with them anymore. Since your mirror does the same things as you do, he'll sheath his sword too. Then you can join back with your darkside :)
@@Winnetou17 Thank you!
Growing up with the IBM version, I don't like the way the prince is overdressed here. The simple white robes and bare feet in the IBM version were perfect, and made the most sense for someone escaping from a medieval dungeon who's fighting against time to save the princess and doing a lot of tricky platforming. The clock in the Mac version should start at 40 minutes because he spent 20 minutes dressing.
LOL 😂😂😂😂😂
I agree with you, BTW.
Mistress Voldemort I'm glad. :)
LoooooL laughing so fucking hard!! looool
+LemonSlice Overdressed? He is the Prince after all... I don't see why they would change his casual clothing into rags before throwing him into the cellar? Unless the Prince is regularly dressed like a 'bum'. ;)
The Macintosh version had the best sound and best graphics.
My screen was black and white which added to the ambiance. I was terrified of this game as a kid :D
Wow, simply watching this game being played brings back fond memories of this game and a smile on my face. Old sources of happinness seldom ever die.
minimum graphics - full gameplay
the DOS era - my childhood
yup. Indeed.
Now there are graphics and look what they do with it. Nothing. Steam is just a money grabber and not a real game experience.
Я в эту игрушку играл в 1993 году, на работе. Тогда это была круть неимоверная.
Кто бы тогда мог подумать, что компьютеры будут в каждом доме, да по нескольку штук...
Играл на работе у мамы)
круть была игра Маугли , можно было полдня играть и не пройти игру.🤣
Питфалл была ещё прикольная игра.
Princess: Can you come over?
Price: Now? Your castle is full of traps and heavily guarded by solders!
Princess: I'm home alone.
Prince: Say no more (grab sword and prepare for a bloodbath)
I'll be there within one hour
Prince is more wreckless; at least Price had the right idea...
I still remember the first time I made to the end had under 60 seconds left. My elder brother was sitting next to me. The last level had high jumps and if you miss one that’s it. Jaffer was hard but managed to kill him and I think the time stopped as soon he was killed. What a memory!!!
I'm a gen Z kid, and I just get to know this. Learning how limited it was in the computers back then and I'm impressed by how much content this consists.
Wait till you hear of the exploits of Id. That's really gonna blow your mind.
Content.....is everything content for you guys?
i was never able to play this game properly and never will. Not even after seeing here how its done.
same it took me countless hours to figure some of the level designs out and this guy did it all under 45 minutes
You are a God, stranger guy who passed the thoughest game in the world of all the times! You have unblocked every single bad I had since I met this game, in my sweet childhood. I feel different since today.
Haha, the final boss looked easier than the 'fat guard' or skeleton enemies. So many nostalgic memories of dying repeatedly in this hard game when I was a young child haha.... well played. Glad to finally see the whole game and ending. Closure.
The hardest one was at the beginning of Level 8. He wouldn't move until you did and required advanced skills to beat.
The mirror guy was such a dixk lol
Of course, im one level there is a potion that you can get, but in getting that, you awaken an army of skeletons. The only thing you can do is run away, and then there is that nice "phew" moment if you're finally safe...
@@waytothewill Linger? That boss is actually pretty easy. You can lure him into taking a step toward you and if you attack at the right time, you catch him off guard.
@@voorth That was in the second game.
Played it on an Intel 486 with DOS and black and white monitor. Also, the prince only wore white garbs in that version. Ah! the good old days...
This is the same prince model as in prince of persia 2, so I assume it's a "remaster" (lol) that came later
My first ever computer was a 486. Crazy how time flies.
Played that version too during my primary school years. Never get to finish it. Too hard..😭
I played it on a Pentium 100mhz with Windows 95
Same setup. 486 with DOS. All white, no hat
I've spent countless hours trying to reach the last level.. Good old days
I bought my first computer in 1999 and this was one of the first games installed along with Dave Dangerous and a few others, I have spent countless nights training myself and completing this game. I was a hero for my younger brother and my nephews and nieces. They use to surround me while I play the game.
After completing it, all the keystrokes have gone into my muscles memory. After genuinely completing it I have learned shortcuts to jump levels etc (I guess Ctrl+L) was the shortcut for that.
Later I tried to install this on my laptop but it did not work, not sure if I need to get another Windows 98 or virtual box to run it.
Many thanks for posting it mate, it has made me feel 23 years younger... cheers
30:52 "Wait, that's illegal"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Ah, fuck this shit, I'm outta here"
@@gianfrixmg 😂😂😂
Wolf sniper
Never got past the 2nd level. I like it that u push the baddies into traps.
The sound of this game is amazing this arabic/persian 8 bit sound-ish is awesome, always gives me goosebumps
37:47 is the moment for which we played this game for countless hours :D
I'm seeing this scene for the first time ! Was never able to complete it 😂😂
I remember the game as very hard because the controls were lagging, so you had to anticipate the guy's movements which was driving me nuts. Never managed to get far.
Wow, thank you for playing and sharing this! Nvr thought I would be able to see the complete playthrough. I played this as a kid on my cousin’s computer and it never looked this good and I could not go beyond the first half of the game.
Skip the first level by luring the guard past the drop down, then just go around him to the exit. One the second level, you'll start with a sword.
I always got out due to the time, I wasted killing every guard.
Today after watching this video, I understood that I was suppose to run away from them as much as possible.
Я играл в нее в детстве, на очень слабом ПК, тогда уровни казались очень сложными. Спасибо, что показал как проходить ))
I never completed this game beyond level 3 and got stuck always
Couldn't figure out how to beat the skeleton?
@@Aethgeir i got stuck in some place
@@Aethgeir That skeleton....man....
@@ChandravijayAgrawal me too haha
same here!
The Princess is in another castle.
Mario
Sonic
Hahahahahaha! High five!
Kratos
What a great game this was!
I could never get out of level three. Finally now I know.
This game was frustrating...
Я прошёл её целиком, потратив месяца 3 жизни)) смерть на любом уровне и ты опять все с начала, с 1 уровня. Это было жестоко. После неё, я в игры практически не играл
snes version was even harder, beuacse there were no cheats for getting more time
Better graphic, but less smoother than DOS one.
sega genesis all the way
いいね
SNES had a good version.
It's the emulator dude. :)
doctorletsplay jaja 2 años despues cambio la pc que payasada decis
37:13 Most epic boss fight in video game history.
Easy peasy AF 😂😂
So realistic
Sultan was old af... I feel bad for him..
In the SNES version, which is like a super remake of it, it is epic. With magic and a crap ton of hit points. But you still gotta cheese him. He is the one enemy that will perfect parry you always. Once you do cheese him though just same old stabby stab till dead nonstop routine.
I was shattered when I beat him such an anti climax!
First time trying to finish this game I realized that I was too late because of a timer which made the gate close, never to open again. Awesome game. Thanks for the upload bro ♥♥♥♥♥
Macs were the superior gaming system once... wow. I'm still more attached to the DOS version but dang, this is one good-looking 1992 game.
The SektorZ Macs really didn’t get enough respect, just because their game library was thinner. I grew up on mac games so I can’t relate to the nostalgia for DOS, the graphics look like ass. Most of the worthwhile games got mac ports anyway, it filtered out a lot of crap.
30:50 Screw this i am out
"He's buggered off!"
11:31---just chilling here yo
Sshhh Duncan and eat your haggis..
same with 18:04----it's like nope screw this i am out don't need to waste my energy.
and the guard just stands there like: shit, where'd he go ?!
the body animations are very realistic for a 1992 game... he truly moves like a human
Because Jordan Mechner recorded his brother on a video camera & rotoscoped it. There are many videos of it & a making of book he wrote.
25 years ago I was playing this game and the maximum I've achieved was the 3rd level...Thank you for showing me the end of this story!
Yes.. me too
Just watching this game brings back some old childhood memories. It used to be so tough getting past level 2.
Thanks for solving one of the life mysteries.
I played this as a child. This is masterpiece at that time and always.
I used to play it on my 386 DX-40 with 512 KB video memory and 4 MB of RAM and 150 MB HDD.... Good old days ....
8088 CGA 640kbytes, no HD, no mouse, 9MHz
286, 10MHz, 1024KB (Upgrade :) ) and a EGA-Card on 15" monitor ... 20MB Hdd + one 3 1/2" Floppy
Me on an 1 MHz Apple II with color graphics card. Black, green, violet, red and blue, and I will never forget these values: Whopping 279*192 pixels in $2000 bytes of memory!!!!!
386 DX-16, 4 MB RAM and a green screen Hercules monochrome graphics monitor. 80 MB HDD and 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. And a Quarter Inch Cartridge tape backup system!
These graphics blow me away now. This was a masterpiece in 92’ and today.
Pushing those guards into those traps are gruesome man, but you had no choice.
Wow so much nicer looking than the PC version I had
Yep this looks like 640x480
yeah...what's up with that.
I know, I remember the same in early 90s , I had played on 386 my friend with a mac had COLOUR plus more detail
Wow, I remember this game. I played and finished it in 1995. One of my favorite game ever.
Daaamn, this version looks so much better than the one I played back then. Think it was on DOS originally.
It was actually originally on the Apple II, a system which was obsolete by that point. It was an amazing technical achievement for that platform, but the music sounded like wet farts.
I remember playing the mac version in the computer lab when I was a kid, and I bought the PC version, and was very, very disappointed. They even used Macintosh images on the box.
no, it was because we were poor kids and we had only monochromatic (hercules) monitor :)
Dude gets further in 3 minutes than I did in my entire childhood. Never played it with any sound either :)
:DDD
I love the animation of the running and jumping. They did a good job making it look real.
And the sword fighting looks more realistic than most of todays games
@@human678 Well, tbh, I don't really like realism in games. I think it takes away a lot of the charm from games. However, to see the dedication programmers put into making this old school game have these details is totally commendable. Simply because of the vast contrast the graphics are compared to the quality of the animation, it balances out very well.
I used to play this game 15 years ago...can't believe my grey cells still remember every frame of it
11:34 looks like shes having a good relaxing time lol shes not panicing at all
LOL 😂😂😂😂😂 Yup!!!
Draw me like one of your Persian girls.
Well, she gets married any way, so...
Hourglass were like tvs back then.
I used to play this game with my friends, this video is nostalgic. Those friends are still with me.
I don't know how this video came to my field but it feels good. Thanks to the author of this channel
This "Prince of Persia" game is one of the best games I have ever played apart from "Dangerous Dave". I had completed this game once but with great difficulty as I was unable to find the path through this maze type castle.
After a more than 15 years I get closure
A favorite game. We were able to get the first level down to 30 seconds after discovering that the game ASSUMED you retrieved the sword when you needed it so automatically gave it to you. In other words, there was a way to skip getting the sword.
I can't believe it's only 40 minutes to play the whole game through :D
it is only that if you already played like for 2 days. this game design is maded in a way that you dont finish it in time and have to replay everthing again faster until you get in perfection on the moves just to play it to its ends
Graphics looks better than the DOS version that I had on a floppy disk when I was in school, used to play this a lot on windows comps. But I think the animation on DOS was smoother.
I completed this game recently, in its hidden version for PlayStation 2... this is inside Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I played it with the AetherSX2 emulator, on my phone. What a masterpiece! Really impressive for the time and still looks amazing. Long live Jordan Mechner!
those old games had so much soul ...... modern games are mostly boom boom
I try to love the new games but I just can't man it's so far from what gaming really is. Every game seems like a variation of GTA or God of War. You run around visually realistic enviroments just hacking or gunning where is the creativity! The game are not interesting they dont grab me, not to mention the abuse of microtransactions
@@ThrowedGenji those modern ego shooters are boring.... also the modern graphics dont convince me , they all look the same more or less. stille one of the best arcade games is super streetfighter 2 and that is another old game. they did not manage to make a martial arts game as playable as super streetfighter 2
@@timnic9242 right its like ok we get it its suppose to look realistic but its boring now. Super street fighter 2 is awesome! played it so much. I love Alpha 3 to. The fighters nowadays are ok nothing I would go n buy
Modern games don't only consist of FPSs. Look at Celeste or Undertale and you will find that old flavour mixed in with the capabilities of modern technology. Mario Odyssey is a 3D one and it still has that cartoonish charm of the old mario games but also has gorgeus envinronments and more elements of gameplay
All this for 1 hug :(, love is really blind.
Coitus certainly happened after the hug. That's why the mouse ran over to them. He wants to watch them make love.
And outside the window is January 2022, you see, I'm not the only one remembering the past! I remember very well how much time was spent on passing this game back in 1992. At the time, it was the most iconic game ever!
body physics of this game are so accurate
rotoscoping. I don't like this game but it makes me strongly desire filming myself and making rotoscoped pixel animations.
The simulation of running & jumping is so great that I forgot that it's a 1992 game. Wow👏
How I played this! Months and months to finish but always a joy! 🤩
The way they fall in the spikes... Must be painful for the balls
😂 lmao
"Prince of Persia: Lost in the Parkour Castle"
I got mesmerized by this video, remembering the days I played this game 30 years ago when I was seventeen ! Thank you very much ^^
Man, that grey shadow version of the prince scared me when I was a kid. I got stuck long before the ending, so I never learned that I would just re-merge with him when we met up. It all seems less scary now.
When I played, I thought I have to kill it. But one of my friend said "It is your shadow, if you kill it you will also die. You have join into it. It will do same as you do"