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2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time
Adrian Crenshaw · 3 HN recommenders · 5 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 5 months (2014–2026).
About this video
“2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time” is catalogued as a talk from Adrian Crenshaw. Its recorded topics are Game history & retro gaming, History of computing, and Hacker culture & free software, with tags such as prince of persia, data recovery, jason scott, and floppy disks. These labels offer a subject map for the video; they do not provide a transcript or establish details beyond the public export. This guide uses catalog metadata and Hacker News stance counts rather than repeating the source summary.
Audience fit: people exploring Game history & retro gaming, History of computing, and Hacker culture & free software may find it relevant. The source classifies its format as talk and its level as general; those labels describe catalog intent, not guaranteed prerequisites or a specific teaching style. Review the video itself for details before using it as a reference.
Discussion snapshot: the export records 8 comments from 3 distinct recommenders over 5 months between 2014 and 2026. Its 8 available labels count 3 contextual references, 4 recommendations, 1 strong recommendation, 0 critical mentions, and 0 jokes. Recommendation labels are more common than contextual references in this snapshot. No mention in this snapshot is classified as critical. This describes the available labels and should not be read as proof of unanimous agreement. These counts describe roles assigned to comments; they do not measure factual correctness or video quality. Each Hacker News item below links to its source comment for the full exchange.
Recorded details: the source lists Adrian Crenshaw as the channel or speaker. Runtime is not included in this export. A verified YouTube publication date is not included. The first and last years above refer to Hacker News mentions, not the video's release year. No duration or release year has been guessed.
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- Adrian Crenshaw
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- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2026
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
These concise summaries are generated from real comment text, thread titles, and stance labels. They do not reproduce comment wording; the original comment stays on Hacker News.
The a recommendation in “How we made hit video game Prince of Persia” is tied to also, bunch, code, and disks; the linked thread preserves the original comment and its full context.
The commenter uses the video as context in “I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs”, connecting it with disks, drive, even, and haven't.
The commenter uses the video as context in “Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993”, connecting it with article, ascii, can't, and find.