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I was about to bring this up! I got one of these absolutely terrible games in the mid-90s (long after the NES was the hot thing and we had all loved to the SNES or even N64, I can’t remember the year) at the Christian book store when I was with my aunt and my grandmother, and even at that age (10 or 11), I knew it would be both terrible and also terrible in a truly wonderful way. It did not disappoint.

I can’t remember which one I had now (it might have been Bible Adventures but it might have been the one that was the Menace Beach clone), except that it exists in my parents basement somewhere along with my other oddities of childhood.

IIRC, Wisdom Tree was the first company to bypass the lockout chip, before even Tengen/Atari. I have to think the low market for those games, unlike Tengen which was for sale at Toys R Us like real games, probably prevented them for being caught up in some of the legal stuff.




Hah I remember trying to go into the casinos in one of these games would make you take damage. My friend was super Christian and we were allowed over to his house on Sunday but were only allowed to play these Bible games!




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