Anyone here remember or now collect these unlicensed NES titles?
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Wisdom Tree games
Started by KaineMaxwell, Dec 24 2003 8:41 AM
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Posted Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:38 AM
I've the NES Biblical Trilogy of Bible Adventures, King of Kings, and Spiritual Warfare. They're quite a novelty to for me, though. I remember a really religious family that lived across the street from me, in my youth, and I borrowed their Bible Adventures cartridge once, because I was sure it would suck and wanted to see how badly.
I was actually surprised by it, as it was pretty decent. Searching for animals for Noah's Ark was simplistic in design, but well-executed. Gathering sheep as David (which was built on the basic gameplay of Noah's Ark) and finally confronting Golliath was novel, if a little too much like Noah's Ark. The moment that really shined for me was the Baby Moses game where you had to carry Moses through the streets of Egypt.... and you could throw him around. I must have tossed Moses into the river twenty times during the first game of this I played.
Spiritual Warfare is a pretty crackheaded game. You run around in a sort of Legend of Zelda-clone sort of game, throwing the Fruits of Virtue (or Wisdom or something...the important thing is they are actually FRUITS.... apples, pears, etc) at sinners, which causes them to nearly burst with joy and fall to their knees in prayer. Sometimes a demon is exorcised from them or something. You use vials of the Wrath of God (...) as Bombs to clear obstacles and blow up enemies. All in all it plays well (though I can't subject myself to too much of it at a time), is full of good Christian stuff (like quizzes on the behaviors of a good Christian and biblical events), and is strong in the Dork Side of the Force; the game is utterly crackheaded.
I haven't put in King of Kings yet.
As for collecting these, they're not in particular demand. As far as unlicensed games go, they're probably the rarest of the unlicensed, but they do not fetch a particularly grand dollar in collecting (though this could be a good deal different if the games have their manuals, boxes, or are unopened). They can be found with relative ease on eBay and make rare appearances in stores like GameStop/GameSpot, Funcoland and the like ...but you might pay more for the cartridges there. I think I was able to pick up Bible Adventures for a few bucks on eBay, which was actually comparable to the $6.99 GameStop wanted for it when I got the Shipping Costs, but I was able to get a slightly better deal in that I bought all three at once from the same seller and was able to save on shipping.
One day, though, they might appreciate in value (I'd actually anticipate it, given their rarity and sheer oddity), but not by a whole lot.
I was actually surprised by it, as it was pretty decent. Searching for animals for Noah's Ark was simplistic in design, but well-executed. Gathering sheep as David (which was built on the basic gameplay of Noah's Ark) and finally confronting Golliath was novel, if a little too much like Noah's Ark. The moment that really shined for me was the Baby Moses game where you had to carry Moses through the streets of Egypt.... and you could throw him around. I must have tossed Moses into the river twenty times during the first game of this I played.
Spiritual Warfare is a pretty crackheaded game. You run around in a sort of Legend of Zelda-clone sort of game, throwing the Fruits of Virtue (or Wisdom or something...the important thing is they are actually FRUITS.... apples, pears, etc) at sinners, which causes them to nearly burst with joy and fall to their knees in prayer. Sometimes a demon is exorcised from them or something. You use vials of the Wrath of God (...) as Bombs to clear obstacles and blow up enemies. All in all it plays well (though I can't subject myself to too much of it at a time), is full of good Christian stuff (like quizzes on the behaviors of a good Christian and biblical events), and is strong in the Dork Side of the Force; the game is utterly crackheaded.
I haven't put in King of Kings yet.
As for collecting these, they're not in particular demand. As far as unlicensed games go, they're probably the rarest of the unlicensed, but they do not fetch a particularly grand dollar in collecting (though this could be a good deal different if the games have their manuals, boxes, or are unopened). They can be found with relative ease on eBay and make rare appearances in stores like GameStop/GameSpot, Funcoland and the like ...but you might pay more for the cartridges there. I think I was able to pick up Bible Adventures for a few bucks on eBay, which was actually comparable to the $6.99 GameStop wanted for it when I got the Shipping Costs, but I was able to get a slightly better deal in that I bought all three at once from the same seller and was able to save on shipping.
One day, though, they might appreciate in value (I'd actually anticipate it, given their rarity and sheer oddity), but not by a whole lot.
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Posted Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:49 AM
I got Bible Adventures a couple weeks ago at a Funcoland actually and started wondering about these titles.
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Posted Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:29 AM
I have a coulpe of AVE titles.... does that count? 
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Posted Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:43 AM
I'm not familiar with AVE titles (or what the heck they are, for that matter, heh).
Can you go into some more detail on them?
Can you go into some more detail on them?
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Posted Wed Dec 24, 2003 1:57 PM
dont know if you did a search on AA for wisdom tree
i remembered a thread from awhile back that talked about these games
http://www.atariage....t=16180&start=0
i remembered a thread from awhile back that talked about these games
http://www.atariage....t=16180&start=0
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Posted Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:57 PM
mechanized said:
I'm not familiar with AVE titles (or what the heck they are, for that matter, heh).
Can you go into some more detail on them?
Can you go into some more detail on them?
AVE stands for american video entertainment
i have 5 made by american video
Deathbots
Dudes with Attitude
Venise Beach Vollyball
F-15 City War
Wally Bear and the Gang
and one cart Chiller made by AGCI - American Game Cartridge Inc.
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Posted Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:17 AM
Spiritual Warfare is my favorite of all the games. I only own Bible Adventures, but would like to collect them all. I never see any of them in the wild, though. So I guess I'll have to resort to eBay for them. Both NES and Genesis. I'd like at least Spiritual Warfare on Genesis. I wouldn't mind playing that on the go. Especially since I've never beaten it and only made it to um.. I guess it was Hell or something. Wherever it was, there were demon bats and stuff all over and it was underground.
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