Prince of Persia, Sega Master System

The Sega Master System port of Jordan Mechner‘s classic Prince of Persia was published by Domark in 1992. And in truth: it’s a bit hit and miss.

It looks alright, but the main character’s movement isn’t up to scratch, which is sacrilege.

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Prince of Persia, TurboGrafx-16

Another fantastic conversion of Prince of Persia – this one for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. It was a CD-ROM only release, so took advantage of Red Book audio streamed directly from the disc, and as a result: the music in the game is quite amazing and really adds to the atmosphere of the game.

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Prince of Persia, X68000

Considering the graphical power of the Sharp X68000 this 1991 conversion of the classic Prince of Persia looks a little underwhelming.

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Prince of Persia, SAM Coupé

Uh oh… The 1990 SAM Coupé conversion of Jordan Mechner‘s classic Prince of Persia is disastrously flawed.

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Prince of Persia, PC

The 1990 MS-DOS version of Prince of Persia is as good as – if not better than – the Amiga and Atari ST versions. They were developed side-by-side by Brøderbund and look and play very similarly.

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Prince of Persia, Atari ST

The Atari ST version of Prince of Persia was one of four conversions released by Brøderbund in 1990 (Amstrad, PC, Amiga and this), and it is excellent – like the others.

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Prince of Persia, Amstrad CPC

Developed in 1990 by Brøderbund France, the Amstrad CPC conversion of Prince of Persia is a decent interpretation of Jordan Mechner‘s classic platform game.

Graphically, the Amstrad version is very good. It is arguably the best-looking out of all the 8-bit versions.

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Prince of Persia, Amiga

The Amiga version of Prince of Persia was released by Domark in 1990 and is an excellent enhanced port of the original classic.

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Prince of Persia, Apple II

The Apple II version of Prince of Persia is the original, released by Brøderbund in 1989.

The game wasn’t a big hit initially, but word of how good it was grew when the game was converted to other systems and was also released in Asia and Europe. Prince of Persia gradually built into a phenomenon.

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