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[Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today] Designed while he was still attending Yale University in Connecticut, Karateka was a martial arts game that laid much of the groundwork for Prince Of Persia, with its mix of scrolling and flip-screen adventuring and rotoscoped animation. But despite his new ideas for advancing the formula, videogames were far from Mechner’s only interest, either then or now.

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[Kotaku] Prince of Persia Creator Working On New Karateka Game [Comic-con 08]: Details on the Karateka project weren't provided, but Mechner teased the crowd by saying "I can safely say it's not going to be the way that you expect." He did, however, say he would be directly "involved," a claim he didn't make about Ubisoft's recent Prince of Persia releases.

[MetaFilter] We hold these truths to be self-evident, that videogames are ...: They could have gone with the even older originator of the gameplay style and chosen the original Prince of Persia, but that's a gimme. So Out Of This World it is, because then you get to sound like you must really know your shit to so confidently declare something so unpredictable as your number 1.

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