It's a wonderful game and a really good introduction into cinematic platformers once you get over the initial learning curve of the controls. Some things to remember for new players:

>Press jump about a tile or so before the one you want to jump on.
>Prince can knock loose tiles out of the ceiling in certain spots.
>Some jumps can only be made by grabbing a ledge with the action button.
>Prince will very generously snap to ledges above him, sometimes to a detrimental degree because it doesn't seem possible at first.
>You can swap positions with guards and get them into situations where they're pushed off ledges or into traps.
>You can tiptoe through ground spikes and also tiptoe through guillotines. The latter is faster and more precise for getting through them than jumping. Hold action while walking and Prince will tiptoe as far as he can to them without getting hurt.
>Prince can crouch and also crouch hop under closing doors.
>Pulling yourself up from a ledge and through a closing door has extremely generous collision detection.

Lots of nice little tricks like that to figure out. For first timers I highly recommend SDLPoP, which is a decomp port of the DOS/Amiga version. The DOS/Amiga version is by far my favourite since it refines a lot of the rough edges of the Apple II original.

The SNES port is like a sequel and remake rolled into one. Great graphics and sound and lots for fans to enjoy but its also a little bloated. PoP1 is a very demanding game and I think the SNES version goes on too long and makes some of the levels too large. Still worth playing, but only after you've beaten the Jordan Mechner original.