Video GameSeries· 1989· Action

Prince Of Persia

by Jordan Mechner

Prince Of Persia: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.

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Another World

Video Game · 1991

InfluenceMEDIUM

Éric Chahi has named Jordan Mechner's rotoscoped animation, in Karateka and Prince of Persia, as an influence on Another World, which also used rotoscoping to give its characters film-like movement.

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Indiana Jones

Film · 1981

InfluenceMEDIUM

Jordan Mechner has named the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, alongside the swashbucklers of the 1930s, as a model for the game: a lone hero running a gauntlet of spikes, pits and closing gates, where one mistimed jump is death. Filed MEDIUM: the setting and story come from the Arabian Nights.

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Prince Of Persia

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It was designed and implemented by Jordan Mechner. Taking place in medieval Persia, players control an unnamed protagonist who must venture through a series of dungeons to defeat the evil Grand Vizier Jaffar and save an imprisoned princess.

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