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When Prince of Persia was released in 1989, it was one of the first games I personally played on a PC. Apart from the really limited CGA graphics palette, the gameplay of the game was quite attractive and subsequently devoured a lot of life 😑.

But success for the game was not long in coming, even outside my parental living room. The game became an all-time favorite of many gamers, and to date a total of 15 different flavors of the series have been released on at least as many systems.

But what was painfully missing until now, was a port for the Atari XL/XE.

The wait is finally over, and from now on you can calmly turn to the second half of your life after this final event: Prince of Persia for Atari XL/XE.

Paolo from https://www.vintageisthenewold.com has taken the game apart from front to back, and prepared it with all relevant information in his short article for Vintage New Old. Besides a video there is information about the developers as well as minimum requirements of the game.

At that time it was especially the realistic character animations that made the game so attractive. Today it's hard to understand, but if you play the game, you'll quickly be back at the end of the 80s.

Treat yourself to a trip back in time.