Prince of Persia

a.k.a. Prince

created and published by Brøderbund in 1989, running on Unix
type: action/reflex, maze, platformer, adventure
genre: Historical, Cinematic platformer
series: Prince of Persia: Original, Prince of Persia, Arabian Nights
setting: Antiquity
perspective: side view
player options: single player

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor note

Prince of Persia must be the most ubiquitous game ever published. This UNIX port by Broderbund is proof. Well, Lode Runner has it beat I think.

Start the game with the command line prince megahit to activate cheat mode.
Alt+D=Debug info
Shift+R=See room number
Shift+L=Skip level
F1=Toggle Position
F3=Toggle Player
F6-Measurements
H=Flipscreen left
J=Flipscreen right
N=Flipscreen down
U=Flipscreen up
K=Kill everything
R=Resurrect
-=Subtract from time limit
+=Add to time limit
Shift+K=Subtract from health
Shift+T=Add to health
Shift+S=Max health
Shift+B=Night
Shift+I=Invert colors

Tags:
This port was intended for the UNIX platform, not Linux. The rest of the tags are common to the Apple ][ version and discussed on that version's info page.

(Zerothis) - # 2006

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