WHAT WAS THIS GAME? WHERE MAY WE FIND IT TODAY?

[HolyDoom Witch]

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There was this game, that had a 'prince', running on a path in the forest. At the far end of the screen, there would be mountains, that would 'run' with the prince. Before mountains, there would be some space like earth/sand variety, that would slowly go behind. On the path where the prince would be running, all the things like trees/buildings, would go behind immediately; I paid attention to this detail then. I think Prince was the name of the game. I don't know why I can't remember it as clearly as Green Beret. May be because the word "beret" was new to me; I remember reading it and not understanding its meaning, forget the pronunciation. (Until last December, when I was playing Fallout: New Vegas, and reached that Beret sequence!)

The prince would encounter the most, strangest creatures on the way, from daemons to fairies. If you stayed at one place for too long, the screen would turn dark, and there would be a big head of a lion on the screen, that would try to knock the prince off. If you escaped that, then you could still continue the game and it would become bright again.

I used to be 15 years old when I saw that game in a video game parlor in the hill station city of Shimla, in India, and the year was, perhaps, 1988. In there, there was Green Beret, and Kung Fu Master too, along with this one, and along with many other games. I am able to find Green Beret, but when you try to find by the name Prince, the results are only of another great game, but one we all know- Broderbund Software's Prince Of Persia.

I think I may have been a video game freak since my very childhood. (So many times my mommy would come searching for me all the way to the school that was some 2 kilometers where we had to walk to everyday, only to find me in the video game parlor in the complex adjacent to the school building, watching someone's game! This was when I was 7 to 8 years old!)

But even at that time in Shimla, my hands-mind were not very used to the controls I think without too much of practice, and the lives would end sooner rather than later. With limited pocket money (or no pocket money at all), I could only see more of others' playing, and play myself less. And all I kept wondering was, "what happens next". A somewhat grown up balloon vendor had become addicted, and he had good controls. He used to go to higher levels, and I used to keep watching (and enjoying!).

Though today I have an HD 4870 in an E7500 PC, and I just finished Crysis 2 lately and marked it in my long list of video games as finished (that also contains a few TBA names!!!), but I still wonder if I could play those games. Somehow, it happens that it's not just games like Crysis and Mass Effect that give you a great gaming pleasure. Somhow, these games like Mario are also into the competetion, and they are also liked so much by millions. May be much more than serious games, even.

One more info about this "Prince" is, that the owner of the parlor which was a cassette shop on the upper floor, and gaming parlor at the basement on the Mall Road (hey: basement from Mall Road side, whereas, you tried to exit out of the basement from the backdoor, and you would end up seeing the terraces of the houses on the hill going down the hill under the blue sky)... the owner of the parlor had to come down may be to reboot the machine due to some stuck coin or something like that, and he exclaimed- "This game has world's best music!" The music of that game had the instrument piano playing notes one by one as if with great conviction, with beats in the background.

The levels were very full of strange creatures and an interesting gameplay. The sceneries were very pleasant.

Can anyone tell which game was that? And where I may find it? I still wish to see where the game ends.

Thanks

HDW

[Dekar]

Greetings HDW and welcome to the forums!

What a great and well written introduction!

Unfortunately I can't come up with the game you're trying to remember. Maybe someone else can?

[HolyDoom Witch]

Thanks Dekar.

Well yes may be. Though you may want to tell me that if and when I find the game, how I am going to play on my Windows x64 edition.

I downloaded the Green Beret. And if you can walk me the steps to play it, then I may play the one in question too.

Thanks again!