Prince of Persia/Trivia

• Killer App: Linus Torvalds cited the game as the reason Linux supports dual booting. He wanted to work on the kernel and be able to play Prince of Persia at the same time, so he made sure it was possible to run both Linux and DOS on the same machine. The ability to dual-boot in turn was cited as a major reason Linux took off, as users wouldn't have to give up their DOS/Windows operating systems in order to try a Linux distro. This was important as Linux lacked support for commercial games until Steam announced support for Ubuntu.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Retroactively subverted. In The Sands of Time, the Prince is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. In Warrior Within, he's voiced by Robin Atkin Downes. In The Two Thrones, he's again voiced by Lowenthal, with Canadian actor Rick Miller providing his inner "Dark Prince" voice. There was talk during development that Downes would voice the Dark Prince, but ultimately that didn't come to pass.
  • Played straight with Kaileena (voiced by and modeled after Monica Bellucci in Warrior Within and Sarah Carlsen in The Two Thrones) and Farah (Joanna Wasick in The Sands of Time and Hellen King in The Two Thrones).
• Port Overdosed: As mentioned on the main page, the game has been ported on a huge amount of systems since its first release. First on personal computers, then on consoles and finally on mobile. It even got unofficial ports.