Blue Prince (1989)
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·October 27, 2025boole1854
cbondurant
There are in fact two sided floppies! IIRC they behave a lot like the two sides of a cassette tape, the floppy reader only reads from one side at a time.
A fun fact in that regard: the game Karateka (an actual game for the Apple II) had an easter egg, where the team realized that their game entirely fit in the capacity of one side of a floppy, so they put a second copy of the game on the other side, but set up so that it would render upside-down.
I'd not be surprised if the inclusion of that detail in this post was directly inspired by Karateka.
IAmBroom
1. No. For an obvious and good reason.
lylejantzi3rd
This is blowing my mind. I didn't know Blue Prince was a remake. I've read several interviews with Tonda Ros. He mentions some of his inspirations, including the 80s game Maze, but never mentions the original Blue Prince game. I wonder if he omitted that because there could be spoilers or hints there he didn't want to draw attention to?
graynk
> This is blowing my mind.
I assume that was the goal of the post. Because such a game does not exist :)
But I also believed it for a moment.
Kiro
What's the point of the post? I knew Blue Prince was not a remake so I expected a punchline.
zahlman
The point is to demonstrate skill at fakery.
hamonrye
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Ok, so this post is a joke of some kind (there was no 1989 version of Blue Prince).
But it raises an interesting question: would it have been possible to implement that upside down floppy disk puzzle in a game?
1. Was it even possible to insert floppy disks upside down? I lived through the floppy disk era in my childhood, but I have to admit I can't remember if the drives would even let you do this.
2. If the answer to #1 is yes, would there be any way of programmatically detecting the floppy-disk-was-inserted-the-wrong-way state?