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10 Best Prince of Persia Conversions

May 18, 2019 Mallo 6 Comments

LISTS: as decided by His Majesty The King of Grabs, in order of greatness:

1. Super Nintendo (1992)
2. PC Engine/Turbografx-16 (1991)
3. Commodore 64 (2011)
4. PC MS-DOS (1990)
5. Atari ST (1990)
6. Amiga (1990)
7. Sega CD (1992)
8. Sharp X68000 (1991)
9. ZX Spectrum (1996)
10. Megadrive/Genesis (1993)

And of course there’s always the Apple II original, which is ‘The Daddy’ of them all.

All Hail The Prince of Persia, and all hail Jordan Mechner!

More: Prince of Persia on Wikipedia

All versions of Prince of Persia on The King of Grabs:
Apple II, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, PC MS-DOS, SAM Coupé, Sharp X68000, PC Engine/Turbografx-16, Sega Master System, Sega CD, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Megadrive/Genesis, Game Boy Color, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum

Brøderbund, Commodore 64, Homebrew, Nostalgia

Prince of Persia, Commodore 64

May 18, 2019 Mallo 2 Comments

The Commodore 64 version of Prince of Persia is not an official release, but a 2011 ‘homebrew’ game created by Nostalgia (not the perfume – the team). And it is quite astounding!

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Arsys Software, Brøderbund, Konami, Super Nintendo

Prince of Persia, Super Nintendo

May 16, 2019 Mallo 4 Comments

Developed by Arsys Software for Konami and published in 1992 this Super Nintendo conversion of Prince of Persia is arguably the best out of all of them.

The game has been expanded and seriously enhanced with superb graphics and stereo sound.

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Brøderbund, Hudson Soft, PC Engine, Riverhillsoft, TurboGrafx-16

Prince of Persia, TurboGrafx-16

May 15, 2019 Mallo 2 Comments

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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Brøderbund, MS-DOS, PC

Prince of Persia, PC

May 14, 2019 Mallo 2 Comments

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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Amiga, Brøderbund, Domark

Prince of Persia, Amiga

May 13, 2019 Mallo 2 Comments

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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Apple II, Brøderbund

Prince of Persia, Apple II

May 13, 2019 Mallo 3 Comments

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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BioWare, Black Isle Studios, gog.com, Interplay, PC, Steam, Windows

Baldur’s Gate, PC

May 12, 2019 Mallo 2 Comments

Baldur’s Gate was the first game to use the BioWare Infinity Engine and was released by Interplay in 1998. It is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, with a 2nd Edition AD&D ruleset, and is therefore a fantasy RPG adventure with castles, magic and monsters in the grand sense of the fashion.

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Bethesda, gog.com, PC, Steam, Windows

Skyrim, PC

May 10, 2019 Mallo 8 Comments

Or – to give the game its full title: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – a legendary, open-world RPG with a dragon-riding, fantasy horror setting, and a chilly, Nordic, snowy feel to the landscapes.

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