Super 3D Noah's Ark

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Super 3D Noah's Ark is a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and for DOS released by the biblical video game producer Wisdom Tree. On the SNES it was known as Super Noah's Ark 3D. This game is the only unlicensed SNES game that has ever been commercially released.

To play this game, one has to attach another Super Nintendo cartridge to it to bypass the SNES lockout technology; the cartridge itself resembles a Game Genie and has a port on top for a licensed cartridge to lock onto. The game itself is a clone of Wolfenstein 3D, as is evident from the many similarities between the games. However, instead of killing Nazis in a castle, the player takes the part of Noah, who needs to throw fruits and grain at stray animals. The game was designed as a first person shooter but it failed to become popular due to its lack of impressive graphics and marketing by any major organization. It was most commonly found in Christian bookstores.

In game shot

The graphics are a toned down version of Wolfenstein 3D's graphics, licensed from id Software. Others have said that the game is merely an illegal graphics-swap hack, since the game played identically and even had the same levels.

The gameplay, more commonly suited to younger children, has its perks as well. Noah's ark is riddled with secret passages, food, weapons and extra lives. There are secret levels, and shortcut levels as well. The player eventually comes across a slingshot, and flings canteloupe and watermelon at the larger bosslike animals, like Ernie the Elephant, and Carl the Camel.

It is commonly rumored^[1] that id Software gave Wisdom Tree the Wolfenstein 3D code, because Nintendo made id change the SNES port in order to make the game look less violent, which turned off many players and made this port unpopular.