Comments on: Prince of Projects

By: Lila

Lila — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:21:08 +0000

@Chris

Thanks for posting that, it's such a weird thing to see in the flesh! I really got the hang of that momentum thing, much to my brother's dismay...

Ahh, the days my brother would allow me to escape my C64 and play PoP on his Amiga 500 (with 1MB upgrade). It's always been my favourite game.

I find a real sense of joy that Mechner is involved in movies; especially writing. It makes me warm and fuzzy =D

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:50:23 +0000

For those who played the first PoP, I just saw his video to get a feel for the animations of that game, and it is disturbingly similar. I just remember how hard it was to get my guy to stop because of his forward momentum. I always fell onto those spikes.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:16:21 +0000

Jake Gyllenhaal looks fucking horrible in the lead role. Has anyone seen those pics of him that leaked? It looks so fucking retarded. Boycott this bullshit.

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:39:55 +0000

@MJ Marcinkus:

My brother and I typed in BASIC programs as well. Today's youth will never understand the joy of spending 45 minutes to type in a game that will disappear when the computer is turned off.

At some point, we got a tape recorder so we could play Kingdom. And save the programs we typed in.

@Brian:

You'll find that a lot of comedy comes from making cultural references you'd assume few people will get. But they do. Or even if they don't, they find the idea of the reference funny. On FRASIER, he and Niles are constantly talking about things a typical audience member wouldn't recognize (classical composers, ports, poets) yet it works. BIG BANG THEORY is Frasier with tech nerds.

By: MJ Marcinkus

MJ Marcinkus — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:55:11 +0000

Atari 800? You were living large. We had an Atari 400 which had that flat “membrane” keyboard – not fun when trying to type an entire BASIC program copied from Family Computing Magazine as an 8-year-old. Nothing beat Krazy Shootout though!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:44 +0000

The Atari 800, wow you ARE a geek! I began my journey of screenwriting in AtariWrite on the 800.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:01:29 +0000

Karateka was awesome. Hated that damn bird, though.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:58:31 +0000

Wow John, I just plopped a Karateka reference into a screenplay I'm working on just two nights ago. I still have fond memories of that game and what didn't happen if you didn't run to the princess...

Awesome how sometimes obscure memories come to light at the same time for different people.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:13:57 +0000

I think Mechner’s entree into the filmmaking world is long overdue, and I hope that Prince of Persia has enough success to enable him to try other non-game-related projects. I remember playing his game The Last Express, one of the last computer games I can remember enjoying (just don’t have the patience for them anymore), and really being amazed at the depth of story and character work.

By: Glenn Stewart

Glenn Stewart — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:59:31 +0000

*three WEEKS ago

sorry :P

By: Glenn Stewart

Glenn Stewart — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:58:43 +0000

I was in Morocco about three ago and saw some of the sets for PoP out near the main film studios at Ouarzazate… I’m not sure whether they were still filming there, but there seemed to be a lot of filming activity in the city in general… ahh well…