
Meanwhile, the man the Princess loves is thrown into the dungeon. Jaffar kidnaps her and threatens to kill her if she refuses to marry him. His way to the throne lies through the Sultan's lovely daughter. Of course, if you'd like to jump into the nitty-gritty, here's the mobile play excerpt from GitHub.Not an American user? DescriptionWhile the Sultan of Persia is fighting a war in a foreign country, his Grand Vizier Jaffar orchestrates a coup d'état.


Oh, and if you are worried about the game being too difficult, there's even a link available to load the game with 50% reduced difficulty, which is definitely a nice touch seeing that Prince of Persia is a challenging game. Luckily you can easily create a shortcut for your homescreen that forgoes displaying the browser bar by clicking "Add to Home screen" in Chrome's overflow menu (the three vertical dots in the upper right). While you can simply click the link to open the game in your browser, the browser's navigation bar is visible. This is where you'll find the link to the web game, which is playable in your browser on desktops and mobile. You can navigate to the PrinceJS GitHub page if you'd like to check out the project from Oliver Klemenz. You can even create a launcher for your homescreen to quickly jump into this port fullscreen, complete with touch controls. While the original has inspired the design of many sequels, the first game still holds a special place in my heart, which is why I was very excited to discover an HTML5/JavaScript port of the MS-DOS version of Prince of Persia on GitHub that's perfectly playable on Android devices. Not only is this the game that started a genre of cinematic platformers (like Another World in '91 and Flashback in '92), it's still heralded as one of the best, all thanks to its slick movement animations that utilized rotoscoping for their creation. Read More.īack in 1989, the first Prince of Persia game was released on the Apple II, eventually finding its way to a host of platforms like the Game Boy, NES, and MS-DOS (the version I'm most familiar with).

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