How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

Why HN readers recommended it

Repeatedly called essential viewing for game development history and clever work under memory constraints.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Ars Technica

Topic

retro game development

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > "For the first time I felt what it's really like to play Prince of Persia when you're not the author and don't already know by rote what's lurking around every corner." This perfectly captures why code reviews by someone who didn't write the original …

• If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend watching the "War Stories" video on the making of Prince of Persia: [VIDEO] On a related note, I also highly recommend the "War Stories" video for the making of Crash Bandicoot: [LINK]

• I have watched the creator explaining to us in great detail how he came up with so many tiny details that made it a perfect game for its time! Just watch it yourself, you will be in awe! [VIDEO]