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Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights

Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights is the Dreamcast port of Prince of Persia 3D. It was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Mattel Interactive in North America a year after the original was…

21 November 2000

Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights is an adventure developed by Avalanche Software, released 21 November 2000 on Dreamcast.

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What Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights is

Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights is an adventure game developed by Avalanche Software and released in 2000. It was published by Mattel Interactive. It is available on Dreamcast only. It runs on NetImmerse.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights is the Dreamcast port of Prince of Persia 3D. It was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Mattel Interactive in North America a year after the original was released. There are several notable differences between the two versions, the most immediately noticeable one is the movement of prince being much faster in the port. The port also does not have the quicksave/quickload feature unlike the original, and there some level layouts changes ranging from slight modifications to entire levels being just removed.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Prince of Persia series

Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights is the 22nd of 73 entries we hold in the Prince of Persia series. It arrived a year after Prince of Persia 3D. The next entry was Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2003.

See all 73 Prince of Persia games in release order →

What it launched against

Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights launched on 21 November 2000, within three weeks of Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and Hitman: Codename 47.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, The Operative: No One Lives Forever, Hitman: Codename 47.

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When did Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights come out?
Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights was released on 21 November 2000 for Dreamcast.

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