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Is Bible Adventures Guilty or Innocent of Being Terrible?

Cygnus Destroyer finishes his Wisdom Tree / Bible games reviews with Bible Adventures. This game is a classic I played the hell out of as a kid. Because of this, Cygnus Destroyer and I both have a huge fondness for this game. I have really enjoyed watching all his Wisdom Tree videos this month and found it a bit sad to watch his final one. He missed my absolute favoriate Wisdom Tree title Spiritual Warfare, so hopefully he comes back around and reviews it.

Yes, I actually own this game. All I can say is, watch the

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Bible_adventures.jpg

Yes, I actually own this game. All I can say is, watch the Angry Video Game Nerd review it. He's spot on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw

(Jon, if you read this, does standard HTML code work for making links? I don't want to try it and break the layout).

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/24/2012 at 06:13am

I added a subset of HTML I forgot if links are part of that, I'll check.

Also, I have Bible Adventures AND Spiritual Warfare. Both so awesome!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 01/24/2012 at 10:25pm

Ah, I remember this game. I thought it was so cool that it was a blue cartridge!

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 01/24/2012 at 11:18pm

It's interesting when you find out that the blue carts, the gold ones, and the Tengen cartridges were all different because they were unauthorized.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/25/2012 at 02:51am

Im glad they went ahead and put out the games because they were really great additions to game history. I don't mean that in a sort of ironic way, I genuinely liked Spritual Warfare. Its a Zelda knock off but did a lot right and I played it quite a bit. Played Zelda more, but Spritual Warfare makes me laugh and think fondly of the good ol days. Plus playing it made me more confident in my heaven status, or at least at the time anyway. :)

Write about it one of these days. :)

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 01/25/2012 at 02:46pm

I luckily or unluckily never played any religious games until a couple years ago. I found this at a local game store a few weeks after seeing the AVGN review of it. So, I don't have the rose colored glasses. To be completely honest, my glasses are probably tinted the other way because I'm expecting something funny and bad.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/25/2012 at 03:06pm

For sure. My parents got it for me as an alternative to.... A non religious game. :)

Haven't played any religious games since. Wonder if people are still making them.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 01/25/2012 at 08:10pm

There were the Left Behind games a few years back.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 01/25/2012 at 10:34pm

If those were as awesome as the movies... (for the record, I did enjoy all the books, but the movies SUCKED)

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/26/2012 at 02:50am

Yeah the movies sucked. Can't imagine the video games being much better.... *shudder*

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 01/26/2012 at 04:34pm

From what I understand they were horrid.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:05am

LOL My cousin, George, still owns the game. I remember playing it long ago.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:21am

Shockingly enough, this game isn't as bad as the nerd makes it out to be. Yeah, the animals are slippery and some stuff doesn't make sense, but as a kid, I loved this game. Still kind of have fun playing it now.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 03:10am

I have fun playing it in the same way I enjoy watching Plan Nine From Outer Space. It isn't good, but it's fun in an "awww, you're trying" kind of way.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/24/2014 at 04:52am

That's how it is for me too, with a bit more "awww, I loved this as a kid" thrown in :D

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Travis Admin wrote on 12/28/2014 at 07:04am

This one is guilty. Quite guilty. It isn't as broken as some of theirs, but it's still pretty bad. I found this at a thrift store the week after I saw the AVGN video. It was kismet that I play it and... oof.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/28/2014 at 06:18pm

It's not so much that I don't agree but... oh wait, I don't agree

Maybe it's because I played it as a kid. Maybe it's because the play control and the rest of the game isn't that bad but... it's not that bad of a game. It's no Contra or Mario 3 but few NES games were that good and I think this one holds up pretty well.

That said, i'll play it just to be sure, over time I may have missed something important.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/29/2014 at 12:59am

I just played a level of Noah and it's as I remember. It's not as amazing as I remember it being. I _LOVED_ collecting the animals and I could do that for hours. So I think it's more of a kids game than an adult game.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 12/30/2014 at 05:50pm

I've not watched this video yet, and I haven't played this game in a couple decades, but from memory I would (like Jon) not necessarily classify it as a bad game, but more a simple game.

Hopefully I get to this video sometime today, as I like this guy's reviews of these Wisdom Tree games.