The original Prince of Persia debuted in 1989.
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Game Developers Conference will honor Prince of Persia creator and ex-White House game adviser

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The Game Developers Conference (GDC) will honor two game industry leaders at its 17th annual Game Developers Choice Awards: Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia (one of the classics of the late 1980s in PC gaming), and Mark DeLoura, the former digital media adviser for the White House.

The awards event will take place during the conference in San Francisco on March 1, at 6:30 p.m. Mechner is a game designer, author, and screenwriter. He is best known as the creator of the action-adventure game Prince of Persia, which first debuted in 1989.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.