Prince of Persia by CapnClever in

This is a speedrun of Prince of Persia by CapnClever from Awesome Games Done Quick 2016. The run starts at 1:00.
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[@spiritmint5929]

Very talkative runner. I really like these kinds of runs. Great job.

[@El_Chompo]

Same. It's really disappointing when they don't explain what they're doing or the glitches they are using. I don't even watch runs when they don't talk about it it's too boring. I love finding out about all the strategies and things.

[@johncolon4069]

Funkdoc's speedrun, he also explains just like him

[@doedsstierna]

cd prince prince Probably the first thing I learnt to do on a computer.

[@ocudagledam]

also prince megahit

[@andrecosta4870]

Me too! hahaha

[@viperRX]

Nice. Almost 30 years ago , I did the same on my 80286

[@nachocdbz]

@@ocudagledam then, ctrl + l

[@AnalogFoundry]

Haha you guys made me nostalgic.

[@zzasdfwas]

The architect who designed the palace really needs to do something about adding better supports for the tile floors.

[@uberfella]

@@user-gb2mn8he8w it is a joke, it is not serious kid

[@eddygtube]

@@user-gb2mn8he8w whoooooosh

[@beunhaas84]

I remember playing this on a monochrome monitor, making all potions the same. Had to note down which were poison and which increase HP :)

[@RandomGuy-nm6bm]

thats hilarious

[@ocudagledam]

That's how I remember it from playing a friend's home! He had a good deal of the potions memorized, at least for the first few levels.

[@pieceofpecanpie]

Haha same! It wasn’t until years later that I realised they were different. I just thought it was trial and error until you remembered the good ones. At one point watching this run my kid memory said “don’t drink the first one”.

[@Cromeyellow66]

Same here, ahahahah These were the times of 4-color CGA monitors.

[@Amit-ov4zr]

Lol

[@silentwitness6822]

I remember playing it as a 4yo. It was brutally difficuly and I was horrified by the sound of the silver choppers. I was so afraid of being caught by one of them.. Oh and wtf, a saving mechanism?! You tell me that now, 20 years later? Great run, great runner. Thanks ;)

[@GVRCLaTeX]

I was 6yo but I share similar memories.

[@LinoshTheHaloGamer]

The saving mechanism required the floppy disk (idk whether a game disk or empty one)

[@Dextomus]

whait what.... Save mechanism?

[@sockmess]

I don't know why, but I remember the character being able to lose a limb to the chopper.

[@DodderingOldMan]

I know exactly what you mean! The sound of those things freaked me out when I played it (back when it was new... I would have been 8 or 9 years old). I turned the volume down whenever I came across those things.

[@DodderingOldMan]

Aw man... when I was a kid I got into a kind of speedrun war in this game, with my mother of all people. She blew me out of the water. She got her time under 30 minutes.

[@WebinarPerson]

I wonder if my kids (in future) will make such a mistake with me 🤔 that's gonna be a lesson 😂

[@yoe91]

6:54 "well fed guard". Love the euphemism.

[@svankensen]

Yep, entertaining runner!

[@realitynowassigned]

What euphamism

[@FFWorldHD]

fat.dat

[@Thanatos385]

This game has caused so much frustration and greif. And he blows through it like its nothing. Speedrunners have super powers i just know it

[@YuffX]

>super powers i just know it Practice. The word you're looking for is practice

[@khurgar8120]

@@YuffX /woosh

[@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165]

@@YuffX and some skills bro...

[@grizzlywhisker]

capnclever is my favorite speed runner not only because of his skill but he does a really good job of explaining what he's doing while he's doing it.

[@GenericInternetter]

Early 90's DOS games were magical. PoP is a prime example of what they were like... Retro but still modern at the same time. Really cool, I remember them fondly.

[@Corrupted]

I really liked this run!

[@REY-yp9gb]

Wo hängst du eigentlich überall rum? xD

[@SK-pg8wc]

Rupty du gauner hast ja nen guten spielgeschmack

[@CsykKrit]

Royal guard, trained for life to be the best of the nations warriors in all forms of combat: Street urchin runs past: Guard: *surprised pikachu face*

[@MarkMcDaniel]

*Laughs in Disney*

[@user25505]

I used to sketch different levels in the style of this game on pieces of paper when I used to play this as a kid!

[@omkarkulkarni3943]

user25505 yep..me too..i used to design my own levels on a piece of paper and then try and see if I can play the game on the paper. Fun times.

[@jundrix3675]

me too :D

[@ChiefJudge]

me too

[@garrythomas492]

Not me

[@kanzenchowa9868]

The animation of this game is amazing, especially if you consider how old it is as well.

[@mrsnoop1820]

rotoscope

[@BuckyOhYeah]

@@mrsnoop1820 of the original programmers brother. (P.s. I've waited 2 years to post this comment, as I didn't want to mess up the reply times...)

[@naughtiusmaximus789]

@@BuckyOhYeah Thank you for your service.

[@prakharchaurasiya8107]

If somebody were to play this game for the first time, it wouldn't matter how much of a "professional gamer" they are. They will lose again and again and again.

[@lLostGems]

I wish this game was more popular as a speedrunning game, I love the nostalgia vibe this game gives off

[@MrJmilliken]

This game is pretty much inherently a speed running game.

[@theendisnear6351]

Too low of a skill ceiling, unfortunately... especially outside Any%

[@magicmundane6174]

Such a fantastic run, I was pleasantly surprised by how great it was and how much I enjoyed it. Thanks CapnClever for showing off this game.

[@Rojk]

2:07 "It is clearly a very combat oriented game! - Fun fact is that the combat system came late in the development. As the first idea was to have a pacifistic approach. It was one of Jordan Mechner's friends who convinced him that he had to have some combat. Source: Ars Technica

[@SECONDQUEST]

Yes. None of us watched that. None of us. We didn't know that. At all. None of us have KZbin. None of us.

[@PapiJack]

Thanks for citing your source. This world needs more of that!

[@Rojk]

Carlos Thank you and I agree!

[@Alixdkari]

great video series!

[@RMJ1984]

This was a joy to watch :) I miss old games, they had a certain simplicity about them..

[@DarkPhalanax]

Ahh.. memories. This was the first videogame that I beated. I remember back then, I was nearly 8 years old, my parents bought me a computer, a Pentium I. That computer came with a quite quantity of dos games like Titus the Fox, Electroman, Alone in the Dark, Domark F1 and Prince of Persia. One week after we got the computer, I was playing Prince of Persia, we needed to go to the church, and I didn't know how to quit the game to turn off the computer. It was a conmotion you see, none of us wanted to turn off the pc in a "forced way" because it could harm the newly computer, and we were scare to leave the computer turned on. So we called a technician from the store where we bought the pc. I only can imagine what that technician felt with a problem like that, I'm an IT guy after all. So, how was the "way" to quit the game? Just press Alt+Q. Ahh.. Prince of Persia. You will be in my heart untill I die.

[@Findulidas]

I couldnt beat this game as a kid, then went back as a young teenager and felt like a champ. It is actually a difficult game.

[@Pillowcase]

this game scared the shit out of me as a kid - I never got by first dude with the sword. I think the realistic animation freaked me out.

[@blassx31]

wtf xd

[@dascandy]

It's technically not animation - Jordan Mechner digitized his brother walking, running and jumping recorded on a camera.

[@dimitreze]

@@dascandy still animation

[@BerserkBrownie]

ikr such graphic violence was too much for my 10 yr self XD

[@Cromeyellow66]

The skeleton really game me the creeps when I was 7yo. This was my nightmare

[@apanapane]

That was a crazy run! Super impressed by the runner's ability to commentate while playing. Never even got past the first level of this game as a child. Sp difficult!

[@TJ_Actual1]

Probably the first "motion capture" game. Very good run! Well done!

[@KICKinYaFACE]

I remember playing this game with my father when i was a child. We never made it past the second level xD

[@EGarrett01]

Yeah, pretty much every game for me as a kid was defined by its first or second level.

[@NappyWayz]

This is still one of my favorite games. I love this runner.

[@trurocker03]

Awesome run, man! Great balance between gameplay and commentary and you just have a great personality. I thoroughly enjoyed this speedrun

[@macnolds4145]

Great game, great run. Brings back some of my earliest memories of exploring Dos and all the things one could do on pre-internet PCs.

[@citroenboter]

I need more runs like this. More old games, more fun facts about the game.

[@Erkynar]

This game was so much fun and I never ever got to see the end... or any of the later levels. Because it was bloody frustratingly difficult. Well played!

[@TheVangbal]

It is actually not that hard. It was just difficult because you were probably a kid or had very little experience with gaming in general back when you played it.

[@bd9299292]

@@TheVangbal When this game came out it was pretty revolutionary. The animation and puzzle-platforming were a major leap ahead from Jordan Mechner's previous game, Karateka. At the time, it was pretty difficult, though not so much today. All of us were younger back then!

[@roadent217]

11:43 Prince of Persia is actually an octology. We have: 1) Prince of Persia (1989) 2) Prince of Persia 2 3) Prince of Perisa 3D 4) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 5) Prince of Persia: Warrior Within 6) Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones 7) Prince of Persia (2008) 8) Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Of course, this isn't counting remakes and Handheld titles.

[@CommandanteRamon]

I remember beating this game one day. Best day of my video game childhood in the early 90s...

[@traida111]

The first guy with sword, I worked out my own glitch to get past him as a kid. I made him follow me, into the next scene, got him far enough and then went up, and back though the place where you spawn, dropped down the other side of him and then free run to the exit :D

[@JOOCHIANTING]

me2.. that was due to no instruction manual.. and not knowing about the shift key.. had to lure the first guard and by pass him... thru a ceiling slab or just running jump and enter lvl 2.. complete with sword... lmao..

[@manfromnantucket9544]

I never got past that dude at 8:02. You're a legend

[@playwithsan9686]

We had this game with our first computer. I'm amazed at how good and fluent it looks. Great run!

[@MrAPOD]

Great run to a great game. I played it a lot as a kiddo on my DOS console.

[@dfshjb44]

Great run by a great runner!! Makes it so entertaining when everything done is being described

[@daruhorblackwater5023]

The game of my earliest days of childhood. I was so afraid of that metal chompers. Great speedrun!

[@nameforcomments4092]

How I like to interpret 17:57: "...illusionist who emprisoned our princess, Lady Girlfriend."

[@christianwarkus5596]

Nice run! Nice commentary! Thanks Capn

[@Cromeyellow66]

That's THE game of my childhood. never got tired of playing it back in the day.

[@IJzzo]

Amazing run. Nice to watch especially as it is one of the very few games I have completed besides Lemmings. I have never believed you can complete this under 30minutes.

[@japas]

I used to play this game on my old macintosh my parents bought to type their thesis in, back in 1996. I played it endlessly as a 5 yr old, and at least in my game it had an anti piracy thingy, and after level 1 you had to take two specific potions to go through. If you failed, you had to start from the beggining. We didn't have the manual so we just guessed every time. The farthest I got was the part where you cross the mirror. It was really eerie and fascinating to me, the duality, the reflection, the other "me". I remember I got to see the ending because my mother had a friend, and she was so good at the game. My mother, my sister and I would sit and watch her play until she beat the game. It was surreal. Good memories, it was a blast to watch this run.

[@Jomama240]

I loved/hated this run. the ease of dominating a game that brought me much stress that I finally beat years later but this was very entertaining lol....kudos my friend

[@rukeyburg1084]

This is the game I remembered! Thank you! Didn't know the title of the game :}

[@azraelle6232]

Ahh, I loved this game as a kid. First time I got to the last level, my time went into the negative.

[@SoloJona]

I played this game so much as a kid. LOVE IT

[@normund8348]

this game was my childhood...even tho I never beat lvl2 :D

[@Pfromm007]

Me too!

[@RpTheHotrod]

The crouch to avoid damage was intentional. The thought is you're breaking the tile over your back instead of over your head.

[@bbbeats72]

Never knew the logic behind it.

[@Aedrieus]

I remember having this game, and I lost the manual with the symbols to bypass the "copy protection" of the time. Good thing you can find it everywhere now.

[@FlyfishermanMike]

This was a staple of my childhood! Love it!

[@mrboss20ten]

This game as a kid was brutal geeeeeezus

[@Imagination972]

This was my childhood game. My god, it was so hard. The fat guard gave me nightmares ...

[@sindobrandnew]

6:10 The magician revealed his secret. This guy is good, real good.

[@PashaDefragzor]

Cool jump animation. No wonder Black Thorn has born after and the ideas behind

[@DiMono]

I remember playing this when it came out for PC. I got really good at playing it the long way, because the idea of finding glitches and skips hadn't occurred to me. Such a nostalgia bomb to see it again.

[@biabiuchannel1481]

My favorite games when 6 years old! Playing this game every day in my neighbors house.

[@Hawaiian.808]

I remember playing this in like the 80s love this game, never knew what to do, now I know!

[@josepharte]

"It's clearly a combat-oriented game" Combat wasn't even originally *supposed* to be in the game!

[@paracaue]

combat, combat, combat

[@rid71k]

@@paracaue you watched Jordan mechner new interview didn't you

[@zergmaster22]

It was awesome!

[@Bruno-hd9qo]

@@rid71k we all have

[@GameMakerRob]

Roman Polak beat me to it. I watched a great video on how the game was made recently.

[@Romanoff.Kalashnikov]

This run need more viewer and audience tho... literally for real ~ it's too underrated!!

[@Cagdasbahadir]

18:04 man you are the best :)

[@kornelkereszturi7160]

This game was one of the first PC games I've played ever. Oh, the memories...

[@amadlonkay]

Great commentary!

[@j.walker6845]

The difficulty was through the roof, but it looked amazing for the time

[@HippieOscar]

Wow, this looked so simple! If only I had known how to do that in 1989... Back then this was the hardest game imaginable!

[@8triagrammer]

This game had one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard.

[@prebatchboy]

Wow... How the heck can you talk so much while trying to concentrate with timing and memorizing each step??? :D Unreal.

[@WebinarPerson]

Finally, felling like i made it myself! Thanks! Great example of hardcore game, btw

[@sarahd2623]

I remember when my brother lied about creating Prince of Persia, Robocop & Dangerous Dave on the PC. My god what an asshole!

[@azirek]

Great run! I played this game when I was child.

[@PACMAN-sm5ht]

Amazing show! Thanks!

[@jordanforbes149]

the animation in this game still looks good

[@Althemor]

Good run and really nice commentary.

[@ThatWTFGuy]

I remember this from when I was a kid! Loved it but never beat it!

[@RobH1628]

Loved this game as a kid and i was young when i learned how to beat it. I knew a few glitches and was able to get under 30 mins. I would love play again

[@ElegantElephantTrunk]

here's the link to the game. If you have an ad blocker then pause it then refresh the website. Then wait for the ad to finish and turn back on your ad blocker (if you have one). Enjoy :D

[@W_0_W]

Thanks Mr.Mouse for this excellent run.

[@MisterChef]

Really nice run!

[@ZetaMAGES]

And I'll tell ya all about how I became the Prince of a town called Persia.

[@stupidrainbo]

Fresh Prince of Persia... there's an idea. Replace Jake Gyllenhaal with Will Smith

[@TheFelipega]

This is one of the best runs in all GDQ. The runner is like Niel Tyson for this game. Amazing.

[@kurtdupree1254]

I loved this game as a kid, played it on the Super Nintendo. I haven't played it in forever but can still remember the intense skeleton fight music :)

[@DavidXNewton]

This is incredible, I've done a run of this game myself but I'd never be able to do it while simultaneously explaining the tricks!

[@bolognivm]

Loved your 13 min run too. Good job m8

[@alyious]

OML I FORGOT ABOUT THIS GAME

[@skumbino]

I used to teleport over the first guard since 90's :D... but i only finished the whole game a bunch of times.

[@AJRestoration]

That was the end boss? I was so close to finish the game, but little me never could get past that guy! now i can go on with my life!

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

Ha ha! That's awesome - you just ran past all the guards. That's probably the kindest thing to do really - they are just security guards doing their job.

[@IJzzo]

Well that was how I was playing that game in the beginning, because I did not know how to stab them. Only I was a lot slower in that.

[@Army_of_One_]

I played this game on my dads old sega around 2002-4. I never beat the second level as a kid because as he said this game is punishingly difficult so seeing all the levels I never got to after finding this video is like years of closure. Awesome run

[@Aguz25]

Genesis version is longer and harder than orginal pc version.

[@yeeminyamin5515]

I like the old school games run. This was cool

[@c.a.murillo5896]

I remember playing this game on a Big ass disquette xD awesome speedrun. Thank You for uploading it. Saludos.

[@wpninja83]

Such a good game, there are some games that just feel like they were made with the intention of speedrunning. This game being one of them.

[@Raito73]

Really awesome run, not only show us the speed but with bugs and tricks.

[@EarthUPC]

Soundtrack is bomb !

[@MikePyse]

Well you made this look easy lol The prince of persia version that i have , has a grey-ish (or blue idk) color theme in the dungeons (which i personally prefer) and i cant do any of those tricks, even when it comes to passing by the guards , maybe because its version 1.0 and most people play 3.0 ?

[@mcbain23]

Great run on a tough game.

[@IrmanInsani]

I remember playing this a lot when I was little. My best time was around 30 minutes, and I thought that was fast.

[@stevencollins6155]

This game looks like it’d take me tens of hours to beat.

[@bobziho]

What I devised when I was like 11yo (not as a speedruner haha, and that's the actual video times, not the speedrun time) : - lev3, 4:35 : long jump to skip the skeleton (same that in the video) ; - lev8, 8:49 : when the guard wait for you just push down and mash shift key, the time to sheat your sword, draw it again and hit, meet exactly the time for him to decide to move forward. Not so fast but I believe it works 100% times ; - lev8, 10:06 : shift-walk so the green guard won't turn and you can attack him from the back when you're up Other things : 16:45 : As far as I remember, the saving mechanism was available only after level 3, and left you with only 15 minutes when you restore. 17:30 : Never saw this trick ! But do you need to merge with the ghost for the magical slabs to appear? Thanks you for the memories.

[@MontyRoyal963]

My grandpa has the cancer... ...so back to the game... 🤣🤣🤣🤔 so savage!!!

[@user-rr9wk4iv4l]

Прекрасное прохождение легендарной игры!

[@joltheadporgy]

I just played through his game again after years. I was able to implement most of these skips except for jumping past the enemies like in the first level. I have no idea how he does that first try. I did it once I just didn't start running fast enough.

[@snogger6]

Great run...