Postby ShadowAngel1 » February 25th, 2012, 6:48 am
[QUOTE=Adamant]Karateka was the very first game made in this style. It's mostly fighting rather than platforming, but it served as heavy inspiration for Prince of Persia, which in turn inspired most of the other such games.[/QUOTE]
Both games were created by the same guy, Jordan Mechner. So it's just natural, that they are graphically very similar. In fact Mechner created Karateka while in College and it was so successful that it financed the development of Prince of Persia.
There are a couple of other games like Blackthorne/Blackhawk (PC, SNES, GBA, Mac, Genesis 32X), the crappy Lester the Unlikely (SNES). There's also Heart of the Alien for Sega CD, it's the sequel to Out of this World and Generations Lost (Mega Drive/Genesis) which is also pretty similar in style of Gameplay.
A modern variant is Limbo, released last year for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, i disagree on the critics review and think it's a good game