Do you remember the time before the first Gulf War when we weren’t so racist towards people from the Middle East and we didn’t just assume anyone who looked vaguely Arabian was a terrorist? Good times.
Back then, us gamers really only had two Arab protagonists to play with: the Prince in Prince of Persia, and your man here in Sceptre of Bagdad. Yes, Bagdad, not Baghdad. I’m assuming that was a mistake, rather than the game actually being set in a tiny Polish village that actually appears to resemble somewhere a bit more Iraqi than the rest of the country.
The plot, such as it is, borrows from Jet Set Willy in that you can’t go to bed until you’ve tidied up. The game plays out more like Dizzy or Finders Keepers, however, with items you can pick up strewn around the place, and characters and objects to get past using the correct item.
It’s a lot easier than Dizzy and Finders Keepers (and Jet Set Willy) though, which makes it an ideal starting point for this sort of game!
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Controls: Choose to redefine them from the main menu!
The emulator used is Qaop/JS – a rather spiffy HTML5 Spectrum emulator.
