Comments on: Postscript

By: Alexandre Souza

Alexandre Souza — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:54:13 +0000

WOW! Read all 67 pages, how not to love this history of winning and good code? I’ve played your games and always though you to be such a gifted man. Almost cried when I saw your name in the prince of persia movie. But I couldn’t imagine an history like that. May God bless you and I hope someday I can make something as big as you, to be remembered as someone who gave so much happiness to the world
Greetings from Brazil!

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:25:53 +0000

Wow. I started reading this journal last night and and throughout today and now I’m finished tonight. A very interesting read, which keep me wanting more.

Reminded me of the great Diary of a Game magazine articles back in the day but the insights to a computer company in the 80′s really added to it. I’m glad it all worked out for you.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:55:37 +0000

Definitely a good read. Not a “reach out for your dreams” piece that is meant to inspire you to do what you always wanted, but a “look at what you already have”. So many times, early in the story (later parts just drove it home), I was thinking “Why, WHY, Jordan, do you pursue the screen writing like some golden fleece? Everything screen writing could bring you, you’ve gotten from game design! Why do you not see this yet??”

When you were puzzled over what possible use you could have for a pair of Apple IIs, I was too, a bit. Until I remembered multitasking was a crazy future-man thing. It felt like archaeology reading the early stuff. As a child, Prince of Persia (among others) made me want to design games for a living – never mind that my parents and teachers all drubbed that out of me, and my IT teacher crushed my passion to program, the point is PoP, and games like it (not in style but in quality and execution) were some of the first things I appreciated. Not long after, I started reading, too (three or four years old), and books joined them, but games are the first love of my life

I’d just like to say, and I’m sure I speak for all of your fans when I say this, thankyou for the entertainment you’ve brought us all. For some of us, it’s childhood memories, for some, it’s their adolescence, or they discovered games as adults, but the sentiment is all he same. Thankyou, also, for taking the time to transcribe all these journal entries. I never even had the patience to KEEP a journal, let alone one like this.

By: Luís Oliveira

Luís Oliveira — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:33:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing, that was an inspiring read.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:15:42 +0000

Well that’s several hours of my life spent reading these. I loved reading your exploits, trials and tribulations of getting Prince out there. I didn’t actually play PoP till quite late in the grand sceme of things but I do remember advising a girl at school what to try. Appraently I gave great advice, didn’t help me with flirting with her though.

By: Tariq

Tariq — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:52:28 +0000

Oh I forgot to add that i spend countless hours and days playing PoP back in 92′

By: Tariq

Tariq — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:51:03 +0000

Dear Mr. Mechner,

This journal may be the best screenplay you ever wrote !
I found myself picturing various scenes and characters….
( read the whole thing in 4 hours)

Truly amazing story !

Regards
T

By: Akolade

Akolade — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:29:54 +0000

Wow I just spent 3 days reading these when I should have been doing other stuff.
Great stuff.

By: James Gowan

James Gowan — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:12:28 +0000

Thank you, sir. I’ll continue to enjoy your POP games for years to come, I hope and pray! The work that you’ve done to ensure that this story is alive and available for the fans is much appreciated! I enjoyed it all so much and look forward to viewing more of your site as I can. Thanks!

By: miChou

miChou — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:34:12 +0000

and sorry for the crappy English in my previous comment