Prince of Persia

Wow, my account still works I was around ages ago on this forum, trying to speedrun Prince of Persia in the early 2000s - I'm miles off the new record now, so that's irrelevant. But I've just got back into the game, and I'd forgotten how much fun it was.

I saw a few Prince clones being mentioned when browsing around the forum, so I decided to try some of them out... these are my results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyCM9XkQ4vk

These games manage to speak volumes about what a well-made game Prince was - you can make something that looks like it pretty easily, but the feel is something that's very difficult to replicate. Unexpectedly, Arabian Nights 2D is the most consistent-feeling out of all of them despite being homemade - the others have twitches or serious problems with their movement that just weren't ironed out.

Nice video; some funny comments in there. I didn't know that Zorro's swinging influences his fall (although I haven't tried the game much).
When you test jumps or test creeping towards spikes, you may want to turn around first to face safer grounds. Although not doing so makes for funnier footage, as your video proves.