Bible Adventures

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Bible Adventures is a

The game is a collection of three games based on stories contained in the Old Testament:

In Noah's Ark, the player must round up animals and food — sometimes by knocking animals out with an object that resembles a barrel or catching fruit thrown by a monkey — and carry them onto the Ark. Noah's health is recharged when the player reads

In Baby Moses, the player controls Miriam, Moses' sister, as she tries to save her brother from the Pharaoh's decree that all male Hebrew children be killed. In order to do this, the player carries Moses from one end of the level to the other, in a manner quite similar to the way in which characters in Super Mario Bros. 2 carry vegetables. Moses can be thrown around without harming him, but enemies cannot be harmed in any way. The adversaries attempt to throw Moses into the Nile.^{[citation needed]} There is a quirk in the game that allows the player to throw Moses into the Nile, upon which the game says that the player forgot Moses.

In David and Goliath, the player starts out controlling David as he herds sheep and avoids predators such as lions and bears. Acorns can be used to stun the beasts. The player then obtains a sling and goes on to dodge guards, scorpions and stones before he fights Goliath's shield bearer and ultimately Goliath himself, whom the player must strike once in the head to defeat.^{[citation needed]}

Criticism

The game has been criticized for being overly

Electronic Gaming Monthly's Seanbaby placed it as number 19 in his "20 worst games of all time" feature.^[3]

References

Further reading

• Durham, Gabe (30 March 2015). Bible Adventures. 7. Los Angeles:
  OCLC 907647163
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• Official Bible Adventures page at Wisdom Tree Archived 2021-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Classic Gaming—Game of the Week