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Cue Meatwad saying "dis says da bibble"

Yep. I mastered the bible. Did you know the Bible is on the Gameboy? Did you WANT to?

Wisdom Tree are infamous. They were a bootleg NES game company that was having trouble making it in the market, so they made their OWN market. Basically, normal-ass stores didn't sell bootleg NES carts, because they were afraid of Daddy Nintendo. Christian stores don't give a shit about Nintendo. So let's make CHRISTIAN GAMES! IIRC most of the people who worked there weren't even religious, it was entirely a business decision, but it worked HANDSOMLY for them, and we got lots of Christian bootleg games out of it.

One of them is this. This is the ENTIRETY of the King James Bible on a Gameboy cartridge. That is a lot of words. This also means the word "ass" is on the gameboy, a lot. As is a sentence talking about the strength of someone's emissions, or whatever the fuck. The bible is weird.

Look, I'm not here to shit on religion. I'm not about that. I'm not very religious myself, I consider myself agnostic. So I have no opinions or declarations about the IDEA of this game. But how is it in terms of execution? Uhhhh.... well, they tried. It's kind of a technical marvel? It's hard to read though, and I don't know why anyone would bother. They kinda didn't, this sold pretty bad and is really rare now.

The menuing is awkward as shit and hard to get through, there's no music to speak of, and a lot of flashing for some reason? So yeah, reading the actual bible is out. But we also get two mini games! One is a matching game, where it shows you the words, blacks them out, then you gotta match them. And the other is hangman, but with sheep. Get a letter wrong, the sheep freeze. Get another wrong, one jumps out. All jump out, you lose, but if you get one right, the sheep jump back in. Simple.

All of the words in the pool are ones in the bible, which means you get shit like "Zebulun", or "Goodliest". I got a name of a person who is mentioned ONCE in ONE book in a footnote. It's a little obtuse and not very useful as a learning tool, or as fun.

So yeah, the bible on a gameboy cartridge isn't good. Who woulda thought. Still fun to say I mastered the bible tho.


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