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Bible Adventures
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Few NES cartridges have a backstory as strange as Bible Adventures. Wisdom Tree built it without Nintendo's blessing, slipped past the console's 10NES lockout chip with a voltage spike at power-on, and sold it not in toy stores or game shops but in Christian bookstores, where it reportedly moved around 350,000 copies. Switch it on and Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring plays over the title screen, which tells you right away this is not an ordinary NES game.
Inside are three separate Old Testament adventures, all running on a pick-up-and-carry engine that will feel very familiar to anyone who has played Super Mario Bros. 2. In Noah's Ark, Noah rounds up animals and food and hauls them onto the ark, sometimes stunning a beast first or catching fruit tossed by a monkey, while Bible verses scattered through the levels restore his health. Baby Moses puts you in control of Miriam as she carries her infant brother across the level away from Pharaoh's soldiers; Moses can be tossed around without harm, but the enemies can only be avoided, never fought. David and Goliath starts with David herding sheep past lions and bears before he finds his sling and works his way to the giant himself, who goes down to a single stone to the head.
Critics have never been kind to it. Reviewers knocked it for borrowing so heavily from Super Mario Bros. 2, for recycling the same objectives from level to level and for breaking up play with scripture, and it has landed on more than one worst-games list. Yet that notoriety is exactly why it endures. Bible Adventures is a perfect snapshot of the unlicensed NES market, when small publishers found their own way around Nintendo's gatekeeping to reach audiences the big companies ignored. It was ported to the Genesis in 1995 and even became the subject of its own Boss Fight Books volume by Gabe Durham.
What made it a Christian-bookstore staple has made it a cult object for retro collectors, right down to the famous quirk that lets Miriam throw baby Moses into the Nile, after which the game informs you that you forgot him. It's a cartridge that starts a conversation the moment someone spots it on the shelf.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Wisdom Tree
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Bible Adventures is an unlicensed religious game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. It was developed and published by Wisdom Tree in 1990. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive in 1995. In this Single or Multiplayer game, there are three different stories that can played throughout, including Baby Moses, Noah's Ark and David and Goliath, all being from the Old Testament of the Bible. The game has a gameplay style similar to Super Mario Bros. 2.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayBible Adventures on NES
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