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Prince of Persia 1 for Commodore 64
1993 Unknown
Credits
Code - Attila Pohorai
Music - Balazs Takics
Graphics - Viktor Varga
The princess has probably gotten bored waiting for a prince in this C64 conversion...
Around the same time that MOOD made a big impression with C64 sceners in 1996/97, Pohari Attilla put together a preview which would get many fanatical game's players excited, including the C64 crowd.
Even though the classic Prince Of Persia was converted to almost every format in existence, including the Spectrum and Amstrad by Domark, the C64 version for some unknown reason was missed out. Sad, because every version that came out was a huge hit.
It's unknown actually if the C64 did have an official version in the planning stages, though the non existence of a C64 conversion was about to be rectified.
A series of stills were released as a slideshow preview, showing various screens of the game on the C64. It was just impressive to see the game making some kind of form on our beloved breadbin, but behind the hype it seems that Prince Of Persia looked a little off color and plain with its shades of cyan and blue.
And even though a lot of screens were in the preview, there was no main character to look at, or any action whatsoever... just some stills and a good conversion of the game's Arabian tune.
Once the excitement died down, so did any sign of more news of the game. The guy behind the graphics contacted GTW and mentioned that the game hasn't been scrapped, but no more has been heard and it seems as POP has finally been stopped.
It is not known how far the game ever reached, and even if the main character was present and running around, just like the original game. Hopefully contact with Viktor will help us find out some more, and even see some glimpses of what had been done.
But as another hunt.. does anyone know if Domark planned a C64 conversion too?... I mean, a conversion on the Sam Coupe aswell, and no C64 version??.. crazy :) Frank Gasking.
Note: Frank Gasking review has some false information: "including the Spectrum and Amstrad by Domark" - False, it's from Nicodim.
Download
Download: http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Archive/p/Preview_PrincePersia.zip.
PS: PoP 3D's official website says that this game was actually published. However, it was not. Viktor Varga says he has never finished it. It is possible that another team has finished another version, possible but highly unlikely. It looks like the PoP 3D's website team has seen a C-64 version for PoP1 but hasn't known it was an unfinished demo :P.
http://www.princeofpersia3d.com/html/leg/leg_body_1.html page: "The game was published first on the Apple II platform, but soon made it to virtually all platforms in existance at the time including: DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, NES, SNES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, Sega Mega Drive, Sega CD, Game Gear, Commodore 64, and FM Towns."
Topic on forums
Topic on forums: http://popuw.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2150.