Original ‘PRINCE OF PERSIA’ Source Code Found…In Dad’s Closet

Jordan Mechner is the lad who set the ball rolling that eventually resulted in Jake Gyllenhaal running around shirtless in that awful Prince of Persia  movie. It must chilling, watching your work of art used for evil. Mechner hadn’t had his hands on the code that launched a thousand promos of Gyllenhaal’s HGH-fueled pectoral muscles for a decade, but now that’s changed. His dad checked his closet.

Kotaku:

Jordan Mechner, the creator of the Prince of Persia series, hasn’t had his hands on the source code to the original game for over a decade. Why? Because it had been sitting hidden in his dad’s closet, that’s why.

Mechner recently got a call from his dad to tell him that, after cleaning out a closet in the family home, he stuffed the remains in a box. Inside the box were some 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks, containing the original source code for one of the most important video games of all time.

With the disks back in his possession, Mechner is now working on converting the code into something modern systems can actually understand. Once that’s done, he says “as soon as we can extract something usable, I’ll post it here”.

More impressive than where the source code was (to me) is what they were found on. Some old as fuck Apple ProDOS disks. Just straight chilling, god knows, the entire file probably smaller than one of the 39,000 Jennifer Lawrence gifs I have clogging up the pipes of my external hard drive.