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…You might be a fundie!
Growing up as I did, surrounded by litters of children and parents with strong Christian convictions, a lot of video games were off limits to me. Actually a lot of movies, TV shows, toys, words, thought processes, people, organized sports, secular music and pornography were off limits to me, but we’ll just talk about video games for now though.
As my parents always did, they offered up Christian valued replacements to popular “secular” items. One such replacement for video games such as Ninja Turtles and Bart vs. the World was a series of games from a company called Wisdom Tree.
If that names is familiar at all to you, there is a chance you grew up in a rather fundamental Christian home, or knew someone else that did. The company produced games such as Bible Adventures, a sort of Super Mario Bros. 2 styled game that involved collecting animals for Noah’s ark, and Spiritual Warfare, a game borrowing it’s style from The Legend of Zelda but instead of a sword and a shield, you would toss pomegranates at heathens to force them to repent and convert to Christianity. It was like an 8bit crusade in your own home!
I have to give it to my parents though, instead of just banning video games in our home altogether, they took the time to screen mainstream games for content and always attempted to provide a comparative equivalent that was more in line with the values they were trying to provide. It would have been very easy for them just to ban the evil Nintendo outright, but they didn’t. I’m grateful for that, and for the effort involved in getting these games – as my Dad had to find a lot of them in Texas. Obviously.
Here’s to nostalgia!
-Ben
