Christian Video Games

Information about Christian Video Games

Christian video games were first made in the late 1980s for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) by Wisdom Tree and now are made by many different developers. Most of these developers meet yearly at the "Christian Games Developers Conference" and build support through the Christian Game Developers Foundation.

History

Starting in the late 1980s the unlicensed game developer Color Dreams using the name of Wisdom Tree, developed the first Christian video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, called Bible Adventures. It featured Bible accounts such as Noah's Ark, Baby Moses, and David and Goliath. The game debuted in 1991.

Other Christian games released for the NES by Wisdom Tree include Exodus, , Bible Buffet, and Spiritual Warfare. Many of these games were also released on the Sega Genesis console or Game Boy handheld systems.

The only Christian game released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was Super Noah's Ark 3D, which is based on the Wolfenstein 3D engine and featured the player trying to calm animals on his ark by pelting them with sleep-inducing fruit.

During the 2000s, Christian games re-emerged onto the scene. Heaven Bound is a Christian-themed game that was released on the PC. Catechumen and Ominous Horizons, Christian First-person shooters, sold over 500,000 copies together.

Inkvisitor is a Christian-themed PC game that takes the player through the chaotic times of Inquisition.

Crave Entertainment released the first games based on the Bible for Playstation 2, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance, The Bible Game. They have also recently released the first Veggietales video games for the Playstation 2 and Game Boy Advance.

Breakthrough Gaming is also one of the only Christian video game companies that have released multiple games using original characters, such as ZJ the Ball, Zippy the Circle, , and Nik & Kit.

Many Christian game developers have come together to form the Association Of Christian Entertainment

Firsts

Music Machine is the first Christian-themed video game.
Bible Adventures is the first Christian-themed video game for the NES
Super 3D Noah's Ark is the first Christian First-Person Shooter.
is the first Christian Real-Time Strategy Game.
is the first Christian Turn-Based RPG.
Dance Praise is the first Christian rhythm game.
is the first Christian game to use a dance pad as a controller, but it isn't a rhythm game.
Exodus is the first Christian puzzle game.
The Bible Game is the first Christian Playstation 2 Game & the first Christian Xbox game.
Christian Game Developers Conference is the first conference designed specifically for computer, video, card, paper, board, and comic book authors that are Christian. The first CGDC was held in July of 2002 and they have been held annually ever since.

Games

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''Bible Adventures
''Bible Buffet
''Bible Builder
''Bible Champions Volume I
''Bible Champions Volume II
''Bible Dave
''Bible Grand Slam Deluxe
''Bible Touchdown
''Bible Wonders
''Breakthrough Gaming Bounce
''Breakthrough Gaming Match
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''Bongo Loves the Bible
''Buzby Breakin' All the Rules
''Camping The Bug-A-Boo Way
''Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness
''Captain Saint
''Catechumen
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'' Conflict in Jerusalem
''Dance Praise
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''Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land
''Flo Return of the Water Beetles
''Fluffy & God's Amazing Christmas Adventure
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''Galilee Flyer
''Gil's Bible Jumble
''Godspeed 3D
''Heaven Bound
''Heaven Quest
''Inkvisitor
''Interactive Parables
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''Jonah - A VeggieTales Game
''Joshua & the Battle of Jericho (Joshua and the Battle of Jericho)
''King James Bible (KJV Bible)
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''Minnesota Cuke and the Coconut Apes
''Music Machine
''Noah's Ark
''Noah's Ark (Konami version)
''Nik & Kit
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''Onesimus; A Quest for Freedom http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/onesimus-a-quest-for-freedom (a total conversion game from Jill of the Jungle 3)
''The Mystery of Veggie Island
''The Rebel Planet
''Rev 7 (Revelation 7)
''Saints of Virtue
''Scripture Solitaire
''Spiritual Warfare
''Solomon Says
''Sunday Funday (conversion of the game Menace Beach)
''Super 3D Noah's Ark (a total conversion game from the SNES port of Wolfenstein 3D)
''The Bible Game
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''Tribulation Knights
''Truthware
''Veggie Carnival
''VeggieTales Creativity City
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''Victory at Hebron
''XIBALBA
''Zippy the Circle
''ZJ the Ball

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Wisdom Tree is a manufacturer and distributor of Christian Video Games, primarily for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Wisdom Tree was born from the remnants of Color Dreams, one of the first companies to work around Nintendo's lockout chip technology on the NES.
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The Christian Game Developers Foundation (CGDF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Christian video games.

It promotes the development products which provide a safe environment and entertaining alternatives for young people to enjoy interactive products.
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Game Developer can refer to:

A video game developer, who creates computer or video games
generically, as a reference to a game designer, game programmer, or game producer, or a company or part of a company in this area

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Color Dreams was a company that developed video games for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). While most companies that developed NES games obtained an official license from Nintendo to produce game cartridges, Color Dreams was unusual in that it developed NES games
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video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

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Bible Adventures is an unlicensed Christian video game by Wisdom Tree, first released in 1991 for the NES, and later re-released in 1995 for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis.
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Noah's Ark was a vessel built at God's command to save Noah, his family, and a core stock of the world's animals from the Great Flood. The story is mentioned in the book of Genesis, the Qur'an, and a number of other sources.
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Moses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה, Standard
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David and Goliath are figures of a well-known tale in the Bible (1 Samuel 17, in most English language versions), wherein David, an Israelite shepherd-boy and future King of Israel.
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Exodus is a video game that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Color Dreams through its Wisdom Tree label in 1991. Like all Wisdom Tree games, Exodus was not officially licensed by Nintendo.
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Bible Buffet is a Christian-theme video game released for NES in 1993 by Wisdom Tree. In the game, players move their pieces around a board similar to the board game of Candy Land. Bible Buffet supports up to 4 players.
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For the religious concept, see Spiritual warfare

Spiritual Warfare is an unlicensed game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Color Dreams and released through its Wisdom Tree label in 1992.
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Super 3D Noah's Ark is a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and for DOS released by the biblical video game producer Wisdom Tree. On the SNES it was known as Super Noah's Ark 3D.
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Wolfenstein 3D (originally Wolfenstein 3-D, commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is a video game that is generally regarded as having popularized the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software.
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In ecclesiology, a catechumen (from Latin catechumenus, Greek κατηχουμενος , instructed) is one receiving instruction in the principles of the Christian religion with a view to baptism.
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