Holy Bible - King James Version Accessory by Wisdom Tree Reviewed by Adrock - adam@dmgice.com Released: 1994 Size: 1 Megabit Save: None Use with: Any version of Game Boy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Opening Snide Remarks: Your Game Boy can now be a passageway to finding eternal life. What other console can do that? I saw this on the shelf at a Christian bookstore a while back, and wondered just what it could do. I later received it as a Christmas gift. I am familiar with Wisdom Tree, the first Wisdom Tree game I ever saw was "Bible Adventures" for the NES. It was a sky blue, oddly-shaped cartridge with games about Noah's Ark and Baby Moses. I saw more Wisdom Tree games as I grew up, like the SNES game "Super 3D Noah's Ark", which was basically just a modification of Wolfenstien 3D. (Whoa, that's kind of... ironic... geez.) Anyways, those are some of my memories of Wisdom Tree, and here is my review of the game. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Impressions: OK, first of all, this cartridge is pretty controversial. I mean, hey, it's the Bible. You can find it at any church where you live. You might say, "Ho Hum, it's boring, it's just a bunch of thee's and thou's...". Well... It's the history of the Earth, basically. (For those who believe it.) You might get shot in the streets of some countries for having this thing. Sucks, doesn't it? That you can be killed for believing in something? Anyways, it's the King James Bible. The Old and New Testaments, all 66 books. It's fast. You can access a certain verse in a matter of seconds. For example, Proverbs 3:5. "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." I can find that one in about 5 to 6 seconds from turning on my Game Boy Color. You just press left and right to go up and down one chapter, and B to skip to the next book. Pressing Down will go down one line, Up goes up one page (16 lines) and A goes down a page. Select most of the time goes back one menu (example: takes you back to the table of books when you are reading) and Start brings up the help screens. One gripe that I have, is that the books of Romans and James are listed as "Epistle of Romans" and "Epistle of James". They are Epistles of course, but it would be easier to list them as just Romans and James, like they are in the Bible. They both have the "Epis" abbreviation on the book table too. Which makes it kind of tough to find them unless you know the books in order. With having said that, the rest of the bible is a breeze to navigate and there should not be any problems. What should keep you from buying the Game Boy Bible over one of those standalone handheld ones? Well, this one is going to be cheaper I think, especially over some of the nicer models, and your Game Boy might be more comfortable in your pocket than lugging one of those things around. I have seen standalone ones that can search just a tad faster and have spelling correction, but none yet that had the kind of options that the Complex Search offers. Those options by the way are finding if two words are in the same verse, in the same chapter, or the same book. You can also do searchs with complex search that will do either/or between two words, which is like searching two words at once seperately. Also (this applies to GBC the most) the screen is tons clearer than anything you're going to find on one of those standalone models. There are bible games on this thing, two of them, if you get the craving for some gaming while you're reading. One of them is Bible Word Match, which is just a sort of "Memory" game where you must match the words with each other. And there is also Bible Shepherd, which is a hangman-style game where you must keep all your sheep in the pen. (Each time you miss a letter a sheep escapes, and you only have three, however getting a letter right will return one.) Both of these games use words randomly selected from the text. Liked: It's got the whole bible! Easily browsable and user friendly! Hated: Psalms 34:21, "Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." Hating stuff is like, not good actually. So... maybe I have a few nags with the cart here and there but... I don't HATE anything about it... I mean, come on... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Improve: I think with work, Wisdom Tree could make a version two, in color maybe, and it could be Game Boy Printer and Color compatible, have maps to look at, be a fully functional concordance as well, use bookmarks, have font size changes, have both the NIV and KJV all in one cart so you don't have to buy two, feature more games like a Bible quiz game maybe, fix the cart a little, because it is really oddly shaped, the connectors show, the base of it is inclined so you can't stack it with your normal Game Paks, and the sticker they put on it looks rather tacky to me... they could also offer a story index that would let you skip to common readings in the book (such as Noah's Ark, The Last Supper, and David and Goliath) for even more ease of use and so you won't forget where those important scriptures are; and they should fix that Epistle problem as noted above. But... unfortunately, the company does not have a license to make games and I'm guessing can only house programmers who work for dirt cheap, and couldn't possibly assemble something like that. So, we probably won't see anything as cool as this for awhile. That's why you should pick one up now. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Final Words: It does the job. It's the bible. And it's not my place to say that this version is not 100% perfect. I mean, the search is awesome, and they even managed to throw the games in there. $50 bucks is a lot but that's not much compared to some of the other standalone handheld bibles. You can find it at any Christian Book store, that is where mine was purchased. Or you should be able to purchase it from this address: Wisdom Tree, Inc. 2700 E. Imperial Hwy., Bldg. A Brea, CA 92621 Phone #: 1-800-77-BIBLE OR (714) 993-6515 It comes in NIV too. The NIV version also has the 20 Lost Levels of "Joshua". If you see it, you need it, buy it. It's a nifty little trinket for Game Boy. There's some stuff in there that you need to know if you want to become a Christian and go to Heaven. If you believe in something else, then let's hope you are right, because this thing says that those who don't have a relationship with Christ will go to a place called "Hell" when they die. Which is not a very good place I might add. So that's quite a bit of insentive to buy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Score: %100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Secrets: Um... no.