It's the 25th anniversary of the release of Prince of Persia! Since I was about seven years old I've been a massive fan of it - it's an excellent, well-made game (by one author, Jordan Mechner!) which invented the "cinematic platformer" sub-genre, and was notable for featuring a character who actually looked and moved like a human being. Looking at games now, this seems such a mundane thing - it's so difficult to express just how outstanding this was at the time.

As it was released as the 8-bit era was ending and the 16-bit one was beginning, it was feverishly ported to just about every console in existence by very disparate teams, and this video examines the success or otherwise of each interpretation of the game. I put together a video comparing these versions and how they handled or mishandled it... the journey was an interesting one :)