From a base in Paris, he traveled extensively throughout Europe. In the years after he completed Prince of Persia and saw it become one of the biggest international videogame hits of the early 1990s, Jordan Mechner did something that one can wish more game designers would find the time to do: he unplugged for a while, leaving games and the sometimes blinkered culture that surrounded them behind as he went off to see the world. For some reason this image was very vivid to me, and I remember thinking, well, that’s modern European history at a glance. A train was coming into the station, moonlight glinting off its steel sides.
I was in Germany once, standing in a train station at night. Jordan Mechner’s journal, February 24, 1992 A moving train at night is an incredible place to hear stories.
