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I can’t help but admire Mechner’s 1990s. After an enormous commercial success as a young man (“Prince of Persia”), he travelled the world collecting experiences, then spent his entire fortune on this single work of impeccable artistic integrity and daring experimentation despite it taking several years and a large team.

It flopped, but he got up and took another shot at “Prince of Persia” and made it all back several times over. Bravo. The world is richer for these long shots that got taken and missed.




"Prince of Persia" was actually his second major success. He had already created the hit game "Karateka" (1984), one of the early martial arts games.


Yeah and Karateka was already super famous at the time.




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