Noah's Ark (NES) Playthrough

[@NintendoComplete]

Here's an officially licensed NES Bible game published by Konami. Weird, right?

[@liomasha2238]

Incredible!! How come i'vr never heard of it!! 🧐🔥

[@knuclear200x]

And it's GOOD too😮

[@johnnydalton9952]

what? this is a big surprise, i never imagined this biblical story had a video game but i imagine was licensed by the pope and the vatican great work

[@bigduke5902]

Wouldn't it have been cool if this game had been published by LGN?

[@christopherthibeault7502]

The music seems slower overall compared to the AVGN's footage. Maybe that's because he was playing on a top-loader, which plays PAL cartridges, but on a 60hz display, while this one's 50. That might account for the drab pace. It does look good, even though there's not much beyond scoring points.

[@magnetron5175]

Ah, who could forget the classic tale of Noah's Ark: A story in which a globetrotting shapeshifter eats giant fruit and battles one-eyed monsters. This is truly one for the ages.

[@spoonshiro]

There were a few surprisingly good PAL exclusives on NES. This is definitely one of em!

[@NintendoComplete]

I thought it was competently made but still a far cry from the quality of Konami's own work. Konami gave Europe several good games that we never got in NA, though. Road Fighter, Crackout, and Parodius were all 👍

[@Dorian_Scott]

One of several great PAL exclusives for the NES -- made famous by that classic AVGN "Bible Games" episode.

[@SoulStreak64]

Old school Konami, at their suppossed weakest, still made a decent religious game that beats Wisdom Tree at their strongest. Even if making a good religious theme game is a low bar to clear....

[@bigduke5902]

I've always been a fan of games about historical events and there were very few in the golden age of 2D gaming. I'd have loved this game had I had the chance to play it then. God bless, NintendoComplete guy, and Merry Christmas!

[@NintendoComplete]

@@bigduke5902 You too, man, Merry Christmas!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Konami 39:37 And lo, Noah did battle with a giant underwater crustacean. This did please The Lord greatly.

[@jumbogrouper9300]

The soundtrack is kind of a banger

[@solarflare9078]

Gameplay reminds a lot of Wonder Boy 3 Monster Lair from arcades, with the auto scrolling, emphasis on collecting fruit, and SHMUP bosses

[@MaycolGamer026]

This game must be released for Nintendo Switch Online

[@johnnydalton9952]

NOAH LOOS LIKE A GREEK WISE, PLATO, ARISTOTELES OR PHYTAGORAS

[@mrnobody2683]

Made famous by AVGN

[@LCDSRCR]

It's funny to think that the animals attack Noah even though he intends to preserve them in his ark.

[@NintendoComplete]

Tbh I wouldn't want someone looking like Noah to touch me, either.

[@cindyanastasyahutapea3947]

Europe: 0:44 North America: 9:13 South America: 18:48 Africa: 30:23 Antarctica: 42:07 Asia 1:01:04 All of a countries 👍🏻😁👍🏻

[@alexkidd8772]

Your 666th NES playthrough...

[@NintendoComplete]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to pick up on that 😂

[@AladdinSane649]

I hope you can do Super Noah's Ark 3D and other AVGN games!

[@NintendoComplete]

Haha, oh boy. Christmas is coming, just saying 🎅🎄

[@larrylaffer3246]

This game definitely played alot more free and loose with it's biblical inspiration/theming than most Bible Games. It's also probably why it's better than most of them too. Wisdom Tree definitely could've learned a few good things fron the developers of this game that's for darn sure.

[@mnemonichotpocket]

The goat

[@SandroWalach]

And it's 100% historically accurate, just like the story itself!

[@Akhnatom]

This game looks great, even if just for the novelty of being the only legitimate action platformer explicitly based on a Bible tale to grace the Nintendo consoles. All the other "Bible games" from the NES/SNES period are pretty much just joke material. The exception are the Actraiser games, but those take a much more ambiguous stance as religious games, probably to avoid censorship.

[@64_three]

see now THIS is how you make a bible game

[@Granite165]

Game looks alright. Hilarious how offended people get on the subject matter...🤣🤣🤣

[@MbRetroGamer]

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[@AegisAuras]

Baby Moses. Baby Moses. Baby Moses.

[@MarcBarkyMarta]

Konami developed a bunch of quality late era titles internally actoss different regions (Bucky O'Hare, Monster in My Pocket, Crisis Force, TMNT III & Tournament Fighters, Wai Wai World 2, LaGrange Point, among many others), so I'd say the whole "reliance on European developers" note was inaccurate. Sure, you had Rare for Pirates!, a pair of Novotrade games, and this (and if you stretch, a few one-offs from Interplay, Beam and DSI) but even through the end, the majority of Konami's 8-bit Nintendo output was internal. Even with Nigel Mansell in Europe, that was a Konami distributed game, but not a production from them.

[@bigduke5902]

@@MarcBarkyMarta Disagree!

[@MarcBarkyMarta]

@bigduke5902 what exactly do you disagree with?

[@NintendoComplete]

I said increasingly reliant, not totally dependent. Just look at the mountain of PC ports they published under the Ultra label.

[@MarcBarkyMarta]

​@@NintendoCompleteI'll give you the PC ports thing in part, but most of those ports came prior to their focus on 16-bit consumer software. And the European developed titles were few over a number of years, so I still say that this increasing reliance on Europe due to resources being steeped in 16-bit development is still inaccurate.