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The only unlicensed SNES game ever, this Bible-themed Shoot-em-up stars the lead character in many of Wisdom Tree games, ‘Super’ Moses. The game itself is quite simple; you are wandering through a 3D maze shooting food into the mouths of animals to put them to sleep. However, it’s not the game that makes it so interesting.
The games 3D engine was developed by Id Software, the producer of classic hits like DooM and Wolfenstein 3D (ironically, two of the reasons that the 16 bit Hellraiser game by Color Dreams was never released), as well as the popular Commander Keen series. Proclaimed for years as the best First Person Shooter maker in the world, it is confusing as to why they would have developed the engine for a Biblical game.
Long before Quake and other Id hits made them really famous, ID Software was trying to get one of their popular games ported to the SNES. The game they wanted to port was Wolfenstein 3D, a Shoot-em-up that takes place in and around various castles and a Nazi prison in WW2 Germany. You kill everyone from Himmler to Hitler and even some evil Nazi dogs. Naturally, the Big N forced them to water down the game, big time, going so far as to replace the Nazi dogs with huge rats and removing almost all the swastikas. Needless to say, the game lost all realism.
To get back at Nintendo for ruining their perfectly genius game, Id ‘leaked’ their 3D SNES engine from Wolfenstein 3D to Wisdom Tree. Super 3-D Noah’s Ark was the resulting game and even has the same map layouts as Wolfenstein 3D! DooM was also ported to the SNES, but after the Wolfenstein 3D/Super 3-D Noah’s Ark incident, Nintendo was a little less generous with their game content restrictions and it turned out a fine game.
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