Prince of Persia (Classic) – Cane and Rinse No.437

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

“All the princess’s hopes now rest on the brave youth she loves.” There's much more to the story of the original Prince of Persia than the famous fact that creator Jordan Mechner rotoscoped his little brother into the game. Leon, Chris, Jesse, Karl and some brilliant forum contributions celebrate not only that eye-popping animation, but also the game's cinematic and storytelling flair, level design and atmosphere. The panel also looks at a few of the myriad versions and conversions, and considers the changes made for the downloadable 2007 'Classic' console update. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_437.mp3 Music featured in this issue taken from the DOS version and composed by Francis Mechner (music) and Tom Rettig (sounds). Cane and Rinse 437 was edited by Jay Taylor Don't forget, you can get an often extended version of this podcast four weeks early if you support our Patreon for just $2 a month (+VAT) Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to the Canaan Rince podcast, Volume 9, Issue 437. And today we're going to talk about the original Prince of Persia. It's many versions, also the sort of 2007 remake-ish, but not the sequels. Not in depth, anyway.
0:41.3	There's a lot to get through this much-storied game.
0:45.0	Joining me, Leon Cox in Issue 47 are Chris O'Regan.
0:45.8	Hello.
0:47.2	Jesse Fuchs.
0:49.7	Something like that.
0:52.8	And Carle Moon.
0:53.3	Hey, Roam.
1:01.4	And yes, so for those who are uninitiated, I think Prince Persia is actually one of those games,
1:06.3	and we had a three-word review through just before recording that sort of cements this,
1:10.6	which is that like, I would say, like Duke Newcomb, almost,
1:14.2	where the third game was the one that became so famous that people almost forgot about the existence of the 2D Duke Newcoms.
1:18.4	I think in this case, the Sands of Time, the 2003 game, became almost so famous that for a lot
1:23.7	of people, especially those of a certain age, the history of Prince of Persia kind of almost got filed away, especially with the, it had a very low profile entry into the 3D world in 99.
1:36.0	We'll cover that briefly.
1:37.4	But officially, we're really only talking about the actual, the first Prince of Persia and its 2007 remake.
1:43.9	It is a 2D flick screen. No scrolling here.
1:49.0	1,000 and one Knights, also known as the Arabian Knights, influenced platform game with famously
1:55.5	the one fact you'll always find about Prince of Persia on anything that's ever written or said
2:00.2	about it,
2:03.6	the animation is rotoscoped, more of which later.
2:06.5	From My Abandonware.com.
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