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Computer Gaming World, issue 66 (December 1989)

Computer Gaming World editors. 1989. “Computer Gaming World, issue 66 (December 1989).” Computer Gaming World, issue 66. Golden Empire Publications.

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CGW 66
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Notes
Read for Charles Ardai's review of Prince of Persia (Apple II), "Good Knight, Sweet Prince", printed p. 48, continued on p. 64. Its columns interleave in the text layer.

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In Charles Ardai's account of the Apple II game in Computer Gaming World, the Sultan is away at war and his Grand Vizier, Jaffar, has seized the throne and the Sultan's daughter, who has an hour to agree to marry him. The player is her lover, a wanderer from a foreign land, who starts underground without a sword and has a real-time hour to escape the dungeon, get into the palace, and take a guarded tower.p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"Magazine
Ardai found that Prince of Persia has more in common with Broderbund's The Castles of Dr. Creep than with Mechner's Karateka, in its mechanical puzzles and atmospheric graphics; he called its music, by Francis Mechner, merely serviceable. He wrote that its animation came from hundreds of movie clips and the digitized poses of three live models, that it captures the feel of the old adventure films, and that within the running-jumping genre it is a tremendous achievement, "the Star Wars of its field".p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 48, "Good Knight, Sweet Prince"p. 64, continuationp. 64, continuationp. 64, continuationMagazine