Jordan Mechner

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Video game designer and former programmer. Known for designing and programming the cinematic martial arts game Karateka and the widely ported hit game Prince of Persia.

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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · May 17, 2023

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I loved this movie so much. I wonder if it's as good as I remember.

Movie 1983

Local Hero (1983)

by Bill Forsyth

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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · Dec 21, 2022

From Twitter

Great thread. Sad but happy. Three cheers for @lklinger! Les, I had no idea. You are a hero.

Tweet Dec 20, 2022

40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the

by Cory Doctorow

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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · Jul 20, 2022

From Twitter

Great article! Now I want to watch it…

Article Jul 18, 2022

Why a show about 'The Godfather' is the best Jewish TV right now

by Leah Garrett

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Jordan Mechner @JordanMechner · Jun 25, 2022

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Iain McGilchrist, « The Master and his Emissary »… brilliant book, packed with insights like this Left-hemisphere-dominated art criticism has « airbrushed beauty out of the story of art, like a public figure that has fallen from favor in a brutal regime »

Book Oct 30, 2009

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World