Ubisoft announced that will celebrate the 35th anniversary of Prince of Persia in some waythe historic series born from great Jordan Mechner. In fact, the game’s birthday falls today, considering that the original for Apple II it was published on 3 October 1989, after a very troubled process. The Amiga, Atari ST and PC versions came out the following year, in 1990, while the console versions came out between 1992 and 1993.
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The first publisher of Prince of Persia was not Ubisoft, but Brøderbund, with whom Mechner had already worked for the launch of Karateka. There is only one sequel to the original Prince of Persia: Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame in 1993, which was followed by the apocryphal and ugly Prince of Persia 3D, in which Mechner was not involved. In recent years Mechner had started working on the third actual chapter, to conclude what had been conceived as a trilogy (the ending of the second suggests that the story would have continued), but Ubisoft canceled it during the work, and then changed on other projects.
Mechner returned to the series with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which however was directed by Patrice Désilets. He also worked on the screenplay for the Disney film of the same name.
Unfortunately Ubisoft’s announcement is very vaguein the sense that it does not reveal anything about the celebrations, apart from an image in which we can see the many incarnations of the prince, including the original one. So we just have to wait to find out more, in the hope that it will be worth it.
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