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Quickie: It's Good To Be The Prince
Quickie: It's Good To Be The Prince
Posted by SmellyMoss on Dec 18th 2008 17:32
by RT Dekko
Hey folks, here we go with another ‘Uncle Dekko Mini Review’! Exciting I know.
I remember the first time I played 'Prince of Persia', it was on my Uncle’s Atari ST and the graphics were amazing! The animation appeared lifelike and you felt that you were controlling a character with their own physical presence. It was in those ancient days of gaming yore, back when the NES was a gaming colossus, the home computer wars raged between Spectrum, Atari and the Commodore Amiga and there, amidst hours of 'Super Sprint' and 'Lazer Squad' and countless spins of Iron Maidens 'Number of the Beast' on the Hi-Fi there walked a Prince. And I don't mean the 'Purple Rain' kind, either, for this Prince had a scimitar!
Naturally, by the standards of today the game would probably not seem as sophisticated and would appear to young eyes as just a pixilated blob hanging from ledges, but boy what a blob! The years, like my man boobs, have steadily swelled until we've reached the mystical 21st Century and are now in a HD headshot Nirvana and, like the Wii's 'Virtual Console' Microsoft's 'Xbox Live Arcade' is a treasure trove of classic games that otherwise may lay undisturbed in the dust and old copies of 'White Dwarf' magazine in that '80s bedroom.
With 'XBLA' you can relive some classic gaming moments, as well as play new IP's but it's the retro games that really seem to excite and for every 'Frogger' you get a gem like 'Prince of Persia' emerge from the haze of history.
Firing up the game for the first time on Arcade you instantly get a rush of the history in your hands and then the graphical update hits you and the Prince has had a bath and a shave and is all shiny and new, looking as good now for the 21st Century to new eyes as he did to these old gaming eyes back then and it's good to see the Prince running, leaping and falling to his death from ledges again as it shows what an inspiration the 'Prince of Persia' games were to such licenses as 'Tomb Raider', 'Uncharted: Drakes Fortune' and perhaps closest still, his spiritual cousin Altair in 'Assassins Creed'.
With a pedigree like that, it's good to be the Prince and 'Prince of Persia' is a joy to play on 'Live Arcade'. Buy it now or feel the steel of my scimitar!
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Mister X said: (Jan 24 2009 at 14:06:45 GMT)
smelly moss and dekko werent you from xleague?
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