Back in 1994, my mom bought me a used copy of Prince of Persia. A year later we had to pawn it with a few other games since we didn't have a lot of money.
Years later, I managed to buy a brand new copy, but I still have the photocopied manual of the one my mom bought.
There's a prevalent influence of Prince of Persia (more particularly the SNES port) in some of our level designs.
And even in the narrative of Silent Planet we find some elements borrowed from the ancient Persian civilization, as well as Greco-Roman.
Here a shot taken fron one