Bible games

[Anonymous No.5323757]

Was there an actual market for these?

[Anonymous No.5323779]

Yeah. I knew plenty of people with insane religious parents who would see stuff like this as the only video games appropriate for their children. At least they somehow got the best SNES FPS with it.

[Anonymous No.5323782]

>>5323757
It was a logical choice. For example, Color Dreams originally sold their own (non-Bible) games, on their own custom unlicensed carts, so they wouldn't have to pay Nintendo huge licensing fees. But Nintendo used its clout to force stores not to sell Color Dreams games (basically threatening to pull their stock if unlicensed games were on the shelves). So Color Dreams had no place to sell their games. What was a market that Nintendo had no influence over? Christian bookstores. So they changed their name to Wisdom Tree, gave their games a thin Biblical veneer, and made bank.

[Anonymous No.5323809]

>>5323757
Spiritual Warfare is the best Bible game, prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.5323831]

They're a rather bizarre artifact of the late 80s-early 90s, back in the day when Billy Graham got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and churches were burning piles of metal albums.

[Anonymous No.5323847]

>>5323809
It doesn't have motherfucking Noah in it therefore it's shit.
The best bible game is clearly Bible Adventures more specifically Noah's Ark.

[Anonymous No.5323921]

I remember one of my neighbors/friends had Joshua for the NES back in the day and I'd play it some while at his house. I also feel like I vaguely recall seeing Super Noah's Ark 3D at some Christian store in the local mall, but that could just be a faulty memory.

[Anonymous No.5323928]

>>5323782
>What was a market that Nintendo had no influence over? Christian bookstores

It was a clever move because Nintendo wouldn't dare risk the PR disaster of going after Christian bookstores for selling unlicensed games.

[Anonymous No.5323982]

baby moses baby moses

[Anonymous No.5324001]

>make game
>put mandatory to progress trivia in it
It's kinda clever, you'll end up memorizing the answers out of sheer repetition.

[Anonymous No.5324135]

>>5323782
Nintendo's licensing fees were insane back then.

$800,000 upfront front from a game publisher per game.

[Anonymous No.5324189]

>>5324135
Also they got to keep half the revenue from game sales and decided arbitrarily how many of a given cartridge they were going to manufacture.

[Anonymous No.5324201]

>>5324189
>>5324135
Wow. I almost forgot that Nintendo is also scum of the earth.

[Anonymous No.5324212]

>>5323809
Good game.

BTW, for all you heathens that ripped out your lockout chip, don't play these unless it's on a flash cart or at least do some research. Supposedly the cart will overheat and can melt since it sends voltage to "zap" the lockout chip. I don't know how true this is, and isn't the normal BS about flash carts but it's worth researching.

Wisdom tree is the only "fullset" I have for NES. Decently cheap to collect and a few of the games are actually fun. I'd like to get the NIV version of the bible for gameboy, but it's stupid expensive ($850 on ebay as of posting this), as is super 3d Noah's Ark.

[Anonymous No.5324213]

And they never released Devil World in the US because hurp it has Satan references in it. Their own fucking game.

[Anonymous No.5324248]

>>5323757
>2019 Anno Domini
>not playing exclusively Christian games
It's like you're actively trying to doom your eternal souls

[Anonymous No.5324256]

>>5323757
Considering my mother hasn't shut the fuck up about Spiritual Warfare since its release, I'm guessing there is. She was a huge NES Zelda nerd and got religious so I guess it appealed strongly.

[Anonymous No.5324263]

>>5323757
Buddy of mine was brought up in an uber religious household. Had some bible puzzle game on the Genesis. I remember it not being half bad. You destroyed blocks by speaking the word of God or some bullshit kek

[Anonymous No.5324316]

>>5324248
I exclusively play Diablo 2, the most Christian game.
Ave Maria.

[Anonymous No.5324320]

>>5324213
And also because it's a dull pacman clone.

[Anonymous No.5324323]

Best Bible games I ever played were off-canon.

El Shaddai and Dantes Inferno.

[Anonymous No.5324325]

>>5324213
The game was sold in ultra-Catholic Italy and nobody cared. Don't get why Americans would be offended by that.

[Anonymous No.5324327]

>>5324320

[Anonymous No.5324420]

>>5323928
Less a PR disaster and more that Christian bookstores would never willingly sell Nintendo games if they didn't have at least a tenuous Christian theme.

[Anonymous No.5324821]

>>5323757
>no billy grahams bible blaster

[Anonymous No.5324848]

>>5324189
The minimum was 100,000 carts at $8 dollars each Nintendo would charge game publishers.

My source on this is the history of tengen games video.

[Anonymous No.5325037]

>>5323809
My cousin had pretty much all these games for some reason, he was an adult so I'm not sure why. I used to like Spiritual Warfare more than Zelda even though it's one of the most insane games I've ever played. Nothing better than spreading the word of God by pelting the shit out of randos with fruit while internalizing the core message that alcohol is cyanide for the soul. I've never once been able to get the game to accept a password though.

[Anonymous No.5325045]

Yes. I was born into an evangelical family, and Bible Adventures is the only childhood NES game that didn't end up getting lost. I would have been better off playing Spiritual Warfare.

We also had Raid 2020, which might have been even worse.

[Anonymous No.5325046]

I find interesting how they featured a game with a girl whose clothes melt into a religious game.

[Anonymous No.5325048]

>>5325045
*my only childhood NES game

[Anonymous No.5325059]

>>5325046
>A game where a girl whose clothes melt turned into a game promoting Christianity
sure is interesting to know that.

[Anonymous No.5325109]

>>5324256
Is she a QT? Post pics of your mom anon!

[Anonymous No.5326850]

>>5324212
>it's worth researching
>I don't know how true this is
>because i didn't research it

[Anonymous No.5326978]

My parents got my me and my brother King of Kings, Exodus and Bible Adventures. We played them a fair amount actually.

[Anonymous No.5327581]

>>5324135
>you need nearly a million dollars to publish a game on their consoles
>on top of the cost of developing the game

That seems awfully steep, I doubt many companies could fork over that much cash.

[Anonymous No.5327592]

>>5327581
They did not and it's why the prominent names in NES gaming were mostly arcade giants like Konami and Capcom who had loads of money. Also it's not coincidental that Ocean were one of the few European devs to put out NES stuff because they had the money for it.

Not many US devs did NES stuff either, mostly just Microprose, LucasArts, and Acclaim, all bigger devs with enough $$$ to pay Nintendo's exorbitant tax.

[Anonymous No.5327597]

>>5327592
So it kind of explains why some companies came up and just instantly vanished, like Arcadia Systems. And some Japanese publishers were also into telecommunications, like Vic Tokai, Toho, or FCI/Pony Canyon.

[Anonymous No.5327604]

Unlicensed games from cottage developers were more common in Japan where there was no lockout on cartridges.

[Anonymous No.5327620]

>>5327597
The guys who published the NES Ghostbusters (Tokuma Shoten) were a magazine publisher.

[Anonymous No.5327626]

>>5327592
EA never put out anything for the NES and their first foray into console gaming was on the Genesis where they connived Sega into agreeing to more fair license terms by producing unlicensed cartridges (Sega initially were as greedy as Nintendo) and then later coming to a settlement where they still got to make their own carts as a licensed developer.

[Anonymous No.5329210]

>>5327620
And they had to pay extra shekels to license the game from Activision, and even more shekels to port the game to the Famicom. I wonder if Activision paid Tokuma Shoten for the rights to publish the game in the States, or if it was part of an agreement. It was released two years later in the states, which already made the game ancient compared to the C64 original.

[Anonymous No.5329437]

>>5326850
>I heard rumors and didn't want to spread false information and didn't care enough about it myself as I don't mutilate my consoles.

[Anonymous No.5329736]

>>5329210
The sega master system version of ghost busters looks way better then the Nintendo version.

[Anonymous No.5329742]

>>5329437
kids. lol

[Anonymous No.5329768]

>>5329210
Well fuck, they did those shit computer ports of Castlevania and Metal Gear in 1990, when those games were three years old already.

[Anonymous No.5330152]

>>5329437
>i parroted and got called out and made excuses
FTFYK

[Anonymous No.5330184]

What would be a good Bible game? Strategy rpg for biblical wars?

[Anonymous No.5330193]

>>5330184
Don't worry about it, Rod and Todd have it covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWDfuP25ieQ