Episode 27 - Playing for the Kingdom: Christian Video Games

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The gaming world has an awkward history with Christianity, and we're here to unpack it. Bible-based video games tend to be either terrifying or terrible, with little in between.

From Captain Bible battling darkness with scripture to Bible Adventures letting you throw baby Moses around, Christian games have struggled to balance faith with fun. We explore titles where Noah heals by reading Bible verses, exorcists fight tree-squid demons, and worship leaders rock out to contemporary Christian hits.

Most Bible games, made by well-meaning believers with limited resources, feel more educational than entertaining. Meanwhile, mainstream games often lean into darker Christian themes—demons, exorcisms, and apocalyptic chaos.

We examine 25+ games, their mechanics, reception, and spiritual value, including some surprising AI-generated rankings (Guitar Praise scores shockingly well!). Whether you grew up with these games or are just discovering them, join us for an honest, sometimes irreverent look at faith in gaming. Played any of these? Let us know what defined your childhood or what we should tackle on The Saints that Play coming later this year!

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Speaker 1 (05:07):
What without further to do?
That's not the phrase.
Okay, what's.
What do you think the phrase is?
I do, you said to do, to doyeah, without further there to
do no, it's further ado furtherado do.
That's a poop joke there foryou.
Yeah, you got me with that oneanyways, jerry's what do you

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want to talk about tonight?
Well, real quick, I want toapologize, uh, for the toilet
bowl cleaner.
You're drinking.
Yeah, that's right.
Is that what this is for you inyour household?
no, there's videos of peopleusing coca-cola to clean their
toilet bowls and like their tilefloors and stuff yeah, it's
well, it's cleaning out myinsides right now, oh boy, and
later, um, without further to do, do it'll be coming out?

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Ah, full circle, full circle.
There we go.
I haven't drank a soda in awhile, so I'm it hurts, doesn't
it?
I'm gonna probably be a littlewired and stuttery later on,
that's okay.
So, hey, this is, you know,funny enough, a Christmas themed
Coca-Cola in March.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
I don't have an answer.
Yeah, I do Because we got it.
We got two of those bottles ofCoke for our anniversary and we
like split one and we're like wecan't.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
This is awful, yeah, so sitting in the fridge since
the end of december, so that'sreally weird that I am drinking
one of your anniversary sodas.
But hey, happy anniversary pal.
Hey, thanks, man.
But what do I want to talkabout?
Yeah, what do?
You want to talk about.
We we talked about this already.

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We planned this.
We have a whole plan ahead forthis.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I know, but I was trying to video game hey,
christian video games.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Slash bible video game slash, I think, at least
from my list, room forimprovement in the genre for
sure, sure, bible video games.
Whenever I typed it up, Ispecifically said Christian
Bible video games.
Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
So All right, well, I'm just going to go ahead and
put this one out there first.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
So yeah, real quick, we're just going to chat.
We got lists and we're justgoing to kind of chat about
these.
We got lists and we're justgoing to kind of chat about
these.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
So my first exposure to video games in general was a
computer game.
It was called the Oregon Trail.
Yeah, now this one, we startedplaying even before Oregon Trail
, but it came out in 1994.
It's called Captain Bible inDome of Darkness.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
And fun fact I have on my list Captain Bible in the
Dome of Darkness Heck, yeah.
So here it is For me.
My list has a bit of a summary.
Would you like me to read that?
Yes, please.
So in Captain Bible, playerstake on the role of a superhero
who uses Bible verses to defeatevil.

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The game includes puzzlesolving and trivia challenges
teaching players about the Biblethrough its gameplay.
The simplistic mechanics andretro graphics limit its appeal
to modern audiences, but itremains an educational tool for
younger players or thoseinterested in Bible-based gaming
experiences.

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Yep.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
You got a pen somewhere.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, I can, Can you hand me that Could have marked
that bad boy off.
So when I did my list I got alist of a bunch of different
video games and then a lot oftimes what I like to do
personally is I use ChatGBT toclean up my notes, to make them
more presentable and pulleverything together for me, and

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I just I throw a bunch of datain there and I say computer, fix
it.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Do you know who Richard Corbett is for PC gamer?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, I think he's just one of the writers.
I feel like I've heard thatname before.
Okay, so when I was organizingmy notes, I wanted it to give me
all the review scores for thesegames so we could chat about
that a little bit.
Okay, so I said, you know, giveme the review scores and it
come back with.
These games were not popularenough to get review scores.

(09:23):
I have a list of 25 games.
We're not going to go throughall of them, but I'm like, of 25
games, I think only three ofthem actually had actual real
scores, really.
Yeah, wow.
So I got the bright idea I saidto ChatGPT okay, give me what
you think the game score shouldhave been based off the data

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that you have on these games.
Okay, and it spewed back andactually gave me a estimated
review score for all of thegames on my list.
Okay, so I came up with a gameof you have to guess what chat
gpt scored the games as wediscuss them got it.
So what do you think CaptainBible in the Dome of Darkness

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estimated score is?
What's the?

Speaker 2 (10:11):
scale for the score.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
One to 100.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
One to 100?
Oh, I'm going to say like,maybe like 20.
Wow, is that what it is?
No, oh.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's 60.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Oh, 60.
Well, the only reason isbecause whoever this stupid
Richard Corbett, I'm justkidding you may not be stupid.
I'm sure you're not.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
This idiot guy who has a job writing about video
games.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
He said that Captain Bible might be the worst
superhero ever to get his ownvideo game.
That's what he put.
I doubt that.
I mean, it's been a long timesince I've played it because you
know it's really old.
We're talking about the back inthe dial-up days.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
It came out on.
I have also the.
It was released 1994.
It's funny that you say that,because it says MS-DOS Is the
platform.
Is the platform?
So MS-DOS is like a oldtext-based computer system.
Yeah, so growing up did y'allhave a DOS computer?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, but we bought this game for the Windows.
Which one would that have been?

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Probably 98?
Probably yeah 97, 98.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Probably Windows 98.
It probably came with a coupleother games.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Okay, everybody, I might have not the best
information because I did useChatGBT to clean up my data, so
it might be missing some facts.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Well, no, but I mean, it originally came out in a
dose, but that's what I'm saying, is that when we got it, it
would have been a later version.
Okay, so I don't think theycontinued on to this day, though
, with it.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is that like the only game in the franchise?
Yeah, I love how it's likeCaptain Bible in the Dome of
Darkness.
There's multiple other ones,like Captain Bible in the Field
of Flowers.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
You know, yeah, no, it was just that one, I'm
assuming, because it didn't takeoff too great well, but that
the goal of the game wasn't tobe like a franchise.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
It was to help christian kids retain christian
information from the biblebetter, because you're using
bible verses to defeat the, thecyborg computer guys sure bad
guys, and I think that'll be areoccurring theme of whether
it's either going to be actuallybased off of a Bible story or a

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game using Bible knowledge toteach kids, but in a sci-fi
fantasy made up storyline ofsome sort.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, heck, yeah, this can't be right.
What's that?
I just typed in Christian videogames and there's one called
Menace Beach.
Menace Beach, yeah, is a videogame released for the Nintendo
Entertainment System by ColorDreams in 1990.
Like all Color Dream gamesgames, menace beach was not

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officially licensed by nintendo.
It was re-released as part ofthe maxi vision 15 and 1
multi-cart.
But what is?

Speaker 1 (13:16):
it about.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't have that on my list, so I couldn't tell you,
the player, controls askateboarding hero whose
girlfriend, Bunny, has beenkidnapped by Demon Dan.
An introduction screen showsBunny shackled and pleading for
help.
The hero must use hisskateboard and any objects he

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finds, such as balloons, frogs,bombs and bottles, to defeat
ninjas, clowns and disgruntleddock workers before finally
confronting the villainous DemonDan.
Yeah, this is not a Christian.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, I was about to say at what part was, because I
think I was listening prettyclosely.
At what part did I hear Jesus,Bible or Christian in there?

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, I don't know.
Oh, my god, that is, that'sfunny.
Okay, okay, here we go.
Color, color dreams was renamedwisdom tree and menace beach
was redesigned with a christiantheme.
Okay, okay, as sunday fun day,okay, 1995 so they re-skinned
the game.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, that's even worse.
That's even worse that theytook an inappropriate game and
then made it into a Christiangame, into a Christian game.
That though, funny enough, thatis not an unheard of situation

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in the gaming universe,especially back in the old days.
Doki doki panic, uh-huh, was agame nintendo made.
Yeah, they later on completelyre-skinned just the characters
in doki doki panic yeah, withmar characters, and that is what
we know in the US as SuperMario Bros 2.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
So funny enough and I know we're going to get off on
this tangent characters that arenow fondly known as Mario.
Staple characters was initiallycharacters in Dki doki, panic,
bomb, bombs, burdo.
There's a few others that arein it and I can't bring them to

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memory right now, but it's justreally interesting that there
are famous mario enemies,villains, that kind of stuff.
Mario enemies, villains, thatkind of stuff that did not
originate from a Mario game Igotcha, but reskinned and
reutilized.
And reutilized Game mechanicslike Luigi jumping high and

(15:55):
Peach floating are from that.
Oh, really.
Yeah, and it wasn't originallyPeach and Luigi, because you
could play as Peach, luigi,mario and Toad.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
And each one of them had like a different movement
kind of.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
What's the other?
Princess, daisy, daisy, here wego.
Okay, going back to this SundayFunday, the re-skinning of the
game.
It changes the villains.
It changes them from what wasthe other one Ninjas, clowns and
disgruntled dock workers tobullies, clowns and businessmen.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Because when you think of evil and sin, you think
businessman and clowns whoimpede his path to Sunday school
.
Hey, son, son, son, don't go tochurch, come work for Microsoft
.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
But I found it funny that they kept clowns in there,
and the only reason is becausethere's a guy in the conspiracy
community who has written a bookabout how clowns are actually a
depiction of the Nephilimspirits.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
When I say evil corporation keeping you from
going to Sunday school andchurch, what company first comes
to mind?
Johnson, johnson, johnson.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Johnson, sorry, that's funny.
What's yours?
I said Microsoft earlier.
Oh and Johnson, sorry that'sfunny.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
What's yours?
I said Microsoft earlier, oh.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Microsoft, yeah, yeah , I mean, they contribute to.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, just because I deal with them on a daily basis
at my job and it's just soannoying.
Yeah, like I had an issue.
I had to submit a ticket, andit's like it asked you first,
like one of the first questionson like the submit form is how
would you like us to contact you, email or phone?
And I click email and everysingle time they call me Like no

(17:57):
, this issue can be resolved inan email.
Do not call me, I'm busy.
Not call me, I'm busy, yeah.
And then when they call and talkto me and they're like I get
off the phone or I'm in theprocess of getting off the phone
, they're like how would yourate this support?
And I'm just like this isawkward because I don't.
Like he says on a one scale ofone to five, how would you rate

(18:17):
this?
And I'm like one, I want to sayone, but then that becomes very
awkward.
So I go, I go, uh, five, thankyou so much.
Can I transfer you to my, mymanager, so you could tell him
that I'm like no, please, justreal quick.
Like they weren't taking no foran answer.
So I said, yeah, sure, go ahead.
And the moment he transfers, itstarts ringing, I hung up like

(18:40):
just leave me alone.
What you know what I mean.
Thanks, thanks, like get me offthe phone quick.
Like why are you asking meabout rating your service?

Speaker 2 (18:47):
You should have transferred the call to someone
else in the company.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Put that call on hold .
Be like sure.
Sure, I can rate this, butyou're going to have to go
through my secretary.
Yeah, oh, my gosh.
Oh, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, oh my gosh, oh, that's funny.
No, this one.
I did want to talk about thisone for a minute, but we can do
it later on down the line.
I don't think it's on your page.
What if it was the faith one?

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh yeah, go ahead.
No, no, let's talk about thatone later.
Let's go through some of ohgotcha.
All right, how about we talkabout Faith, the Unholy Trinity,
on my list?

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Do you have Exodus on there?
Maybe it's a NintendoEntertainment System.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Real quick.
Just so y'all are aware I havethe same game on my list that
John was talking about.
Faith, the Unholy Trinity.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, we'll get into it later.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Just, you said exodus , yeah, I don't okay, but let's
go with mine.
Since you had a really weirdone, really weird dark one,
let's go with.
Uh, what the sorry?
No, you can go after you, it,okay.
So I want to get off on anotheron-topic tangent.
This is hilarious because afterdoing the research, me and you
kind of talked about this aswell Bible video games are two

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things.
Yeah, and it's going to soundawful, but they're either the
dark side of Bible games, wheresomebody is taking the themes of
the Bible but using thenegative themes so the negative
themes like the devil sin andall that stuff and putting it in
as the villain of their game,but it doesn't actually teach

(20:38):
Bible truths or give you Bibleknowledge.
It's villainizing someone whois a Christian.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, well, that happens that way, or it's just
not a good game.
Yeah, and we talked about that.
It seems like and I'm notsaying every single Bible game
is bad, but it seems like it'speople who want to make a game,
somebody in a church, in aministry of some sort, saying
let's make a Bible game, andthey don't have the budget or

(21:11):
the development knowledge toactually create that.
That wasn't their God-giventalent to create video games,
but they're saying let's get outand be part of the video game
scene.
That's what it really seemslike a lot.
There's not that many highbudget video games, triple-a

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video games out there, yeah,yeah, and if there are, they are
typically negative onchristianity yeah, there are a
lot, yeah, yeah, it's taking thenegative, bad stuff or people
who are christians and puttingthem in negative light.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, it's like, um, you know, dante's, dante's
inferno, inferno, like it's.
I mean, it has things that area part of the christian belief
system, yes, but it's all aboutthe seven layers of hell which
it's based off the book.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
It's based off of the book and the book is based off
of a catholic belief system youknow, I will say this, though I
have actually played that yeah,dante's inferno, because it was
made by visceral games, which isthe company that made Dead
Space, and that's my favoritehorror video game.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, it's about to be your second favorite once
we're done talking.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Well, let me get on my list here for a second.
Okay, I have on here.
It's called Lucifer ParadiseLost what the heck.
It is a visual novel thatexplores the fall of Lucifer
Paradise Lost, invites playersto experience the dramatic story
of pride and rebellion.

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Through dialogue and choices,the players guide Lucifer's
descent from heaven, engagingwith theological questions about
sin, free will and redemption.
What the heck?
The game's dark narrative andvisual style make it a
thought-provoking experience,but it might only appeal to
those with an interest inbiblical philosophy.

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So there you go.
What do you think old GPT gaveit score-wise?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Because AI is of the devil.
I'm going to say 75.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
You're you're very close really.
He gave it a 70.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Oh wow, because ai is of the devil.
Yeah, no, okay, that video gameexodus.
I was asking if it was on yourlist.
He said it's not, says.
According to the instructionmanual, the player controls the
biblical figure moses as heleads the is the Israelites to
the promised land, meaning hegoes through a labyrinth.
Moses has the ability to shootglowing Ws, which signify the

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word of God, to defeat enemiesand remove obstacles.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Hey, you get hit with that W, you win.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
And that's what I'm talking about is it's that kind
of stuff all the time where it'slike they gamify characters but
a lot of time don't actuallyallow somebody.
They don't, their work does notallow somebody to come back
stronger in their faith yeah youto defeat magicians and
soldiers.
Magicians and soldiers.

(24:28):
What was it?
Hoi and Hoot, hoot up and hoi,hoot up and hoi.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Why is Jim being so mean to the magician?

Speaker 1 (24:40):
That is the funniest thing to me.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I like it when they do the layover from Doctor
Strange.
Doctor Strange, doctor Strange,the Darkest Timeline is the one
that has you in it, doctorStrange.
Why?
Is Jim being so rude to theMagician.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Oh, the Office, the Office and just old Jim.
I'm blanking on that actor'sname John Krasinski.
John Krasinski, john KrasinskiI don't know why I'm being
stupid right now John Krasinskibeing.
Mr Fantastic and playing Jim inthe Office.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
You're not being stupid, mr Fantastic.
Oh, oh.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know why, reed.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Richards.
I don't know why my brainautomatically went to Fantastic
Fox.
No, that was George Clooney.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh, speaking of that, you've seen that trailer for
Fantastic Four, the actual actorplaying Reed Richards?
No, no you have not.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I have not Really.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Mm-mm, I feel like you're messing with me.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
No, I don't know.
You know who's playing ReedRichards.
I don't know how else to saythis I no, I don't know.
You know who's playing.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Reed Richards.
I don't know how else to saythis.
I know nothing about it.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
So anyway, so when I was watching that.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
So when but seriously , no, I don't know Anything.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Nothing.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Okay, so do you know who's playing Reed?
Richards I know you haven'tseen the trailer.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
I feel like we're in some sort of like latin dance.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
We're going back and forth okay there is a difference
in.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I don't know anything about the new fantastic four
movie coming out piedro pascal.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Okay, thank you.
Yes, no problem, so that itlooks.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Go ahead and ask me one more time hey, hey, do you
know who play?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
is playing mr fantastic?
No, who is it?
I just told you you should knowseek help seek help.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
I've never heard of that actor before.
What?
What are they in?
What else are they in?
Sheep, master, sheep master.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
That came out.
It came out in 2016.
Wow, we're back on video games.
By the way, yeah, it came onthe pc.
Okay.
Sheep master is a casual puzzlegame where players guide sheep
to safety through various levelsusing faith-based symbolism.
Oh, it teaches concepts likeguidance and protection, using

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sheep as a metaphor for christ.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Which is true.
The Bible does say that we arethe sheep of.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Christ.
It says the puzzles arestraightforward and easy to
solve, making it fun andlighthearted way to explore
Christian themes, though itmight not hold the interest of
players looking for deepergameplay or deeper learning of
the biblical studies of Christ.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
When I, just right after I said that, I just in my
head, I heard somebody out therein the ether listening to this
being like I'm not a sheep ofchrist, I'm a lion of christ.
What do you?

Speaker 1 (27:38):
think old gpt gave that sheep master um 30.
Let's go play sheep master,because it got a 65 oh, I don't
even know.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Let's see what happens when I search shirts
church, church sheep, master.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
It's somebody saying I'm not a sheep, I'm a master,
I'm a lion sheep master nope.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
doesn't come up.
Dark sheep master.
Lion Sheep Master Nope doesn'tcome up.
Dark Sheep Master ChapterSearch.
Sheep Master 2016.
Nope, nothing comes up.
Doesn't matter how I word itSheep Master Game.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Apparently, you can get Sheep Master mobile game
game maybe it's a remake onmobile speaking of which I also
have here bible crush.
Bible crush is a match threepuzzle game where players match
bible themed icons to progressthrough levels.
As they move forward, playersunlock scripture verses and gain
a deeper understanding ofChristian teachings.
The casual gameplay andeducational elements make it a

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great option for both puzzlefans and those looking to engage
with scripture in a fun,interactive way.
Okay, so not 2017.
So, like Candy Crush, it'sCandy Crush and I guess when you
beat the level you get a Bibleverse.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
My brain went the other way, like dating.
Who's your Bible crush?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Please, John, tell us the answer is Jesus every time.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Jeez.
If anyone else has anythingelse, then you got a problem.
All the other people in theBible suck.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
You know what I mean, Because they're people right, I
got a real thing for that, marylady.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
And we just lost our Catholic audience.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
All righty, what game do you have to discuss?

Speaker 2 (29:41):
and are you ready to talk about faith?
The unholy trinity?

Speaker 1 (29:44):
yeah, let me just scoot on over to my there.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
It is okay, I have paper notes everybody faith is a
survival horror video gamedeveloped by airdorf games for
windows.
The game consists of threechapters.
Horror video game developed byAirdorf Games for Windows.
The game consists of threechapters.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Can I read my summary ?
Yeah, go ahead, it's evenfunnier.
It says Faith is a retro-stylehorror game that delves into the
biblical story of Lucifer'sfall from grace.
Players take the role of FatherGarcia, who performs exorcisms
and confronts dark forces.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
yeah, and that came out on goodness in 2017 on pc,
mac and nintendo switch okay, sogameplay players control priest
, as he first attempts tocomplete a failed exorcism, then
tries to prevent the summoningof a great demon.
The player's main weapon is acrucifix, which damages and

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slows enemies when held aloft.
It can also exorcise possessedobjects, which typically reveal
notes that expand upon thegame's plot or provide hints
related to puzzles.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
I feel like this is probably like a weird clone of
Castlevania.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
It is possible.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
I haven't looked at it yet, but you know.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
The game is styled after 8-bit computer games of
the early 1980s, such as theones found on the Atari 2600 or
Apple II computer.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Beautiful.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Kind of like Oregon.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Trail.
What do you think the estimatedscore for this game is?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
I'm going to give it a 50.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
I guess your theory might be correct.
Estimated score from AI is 80.
Do we need to?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
pull up, just put demonic and it'll give it a high
rating.
Do we have any pictures of this?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
I've got one right here.
Oh, that's just the.
Yeah, that looks weird, thatlooks really weird.
Yeah, describe that picture toour fans and listeners.
Hey, if you're listening,you're a fan.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Think if a tree and a squid had a baby and then in
front of it is a priest who'sfacing off against it.
I'm not going to go superdescriptive just because there
are small children who listen tothis.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
It's got a lot of arms.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
I'm doing it in front of the kids.
Yeah, it's got a lot of armsand one eyeball, yeah.
And then there's a priest witha crucifix face in it.
They're about to do some battle.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Alright, do some battle.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Do some battle.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
So let's get a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Bible, bible, bible Bible.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
I was going to say friendly.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Family friendly here.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
You got Gate Zero on there.
A what Gate Zero?
What is Gate Zero?
It's a Bible game.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah, it's that game we were talking about.
That's coming out on Steam.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Oh, okay, gotcha, I have Bible Adventures, which
came out in 1991.
Hey, bible Adventures came outon the NES that's the Nintendo
Entertainment System for youpeople who don't like acronyms A
personal computer, pc and GBGame Boy.

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Bible Adventures include threemini-games based on famous Bible
stories like Noah's Ark, theExodus and David and Goliath.
David and Goliath With simpleplatforming gameplay.
It's designed for youngeraudiences.
It's educational and nostalgic.
It's educational and nostalgicvalue make it a memorable title

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for fans of retro games.
Oh my gosh, though the graphicsand mechanics are basic by
today's standards, what are you?
Oh my gosh.
Though the graphics andmechanics are basic by today's
standards, what are you saying?
Oh my gosh?

Speaker 2 (33:41):
for so in the Bible, in the game you just talked
about, in the Noah's Ark.
Ark Like the story, the Noah'sArk minigame, yeah yeah, A
player must round up animals andfood, sometimes by knocking
animals out with an object thatresembles a barrel, or catching
fruit thrown by a monkey andcarry them onto the Ark.

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Noah's health is recharged whenthe player reads Bible verses.
They're scattered around thefour levels.
Snakes seen on the trees aredecoys the real snakes.
The player has to capture herinside of a cave.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
That might be the most realistic game mechanic so
far.
Yeah, because we need to readBible verses and that does
rejuvenate us spiritually.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's true.
That is a good point.
Yep, in Baby Moses, the playercontrols Miriam Moses' sister,
which we talked about a coupleweeks ago, or, no, last week,
last week, last week as shetries to save her brother.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
No two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, two weeks ago.
Last week was Minecraft.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Hey, we have real life specifics of this.
Guys, we might be a littlestupid sometimes.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, that's true Moses' sister as she tries to
save her brother from Pharaoh'sdecree that all male Hebrew
children be killed.
In order to do this, the playercarries Moses from one end of
the level to the other in amanner quite similar to the way
in which characters in superMario bros to carry vegetables.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Moses, kid Moses can be thrown around without harm,
without harming him, but enemiescannot be harmed in any way.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Is that the whole game?
It's just one really longsequence of protecting baby
Moses, trying to get him to,trying to get him, yeah, to get
him to safety.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, moses can be thrown around without harm, but
enemies cannot be harmed in anyway.
The adversaries attempt tothrow Moses into the Nile.
There is a quirk in the gamethat allows the player to throw
Moses into the Nile, upon whichthe game says that the player
forgot.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Moses.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, I'm trying to read about the David and Goliath
one.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I guess because it's like a mini game within a
collection of games.
Yeah, I'm trying to read aboutthe David and Goliath one.
I guess because it's like amini game within a collection of
games.
Yeah, shorter type game wouldbe okay.
I feel like I've seen gameplayfor this game now that we're
talking about it.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
It looks good.
You know what I think out ofall the ones we've talked about
so far playable, playable, Ithink.
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Bible Adventures.
You heard it here first.
Folks play bible adventures.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yep, if you have a nes, pc or game boy you know, we
do need to talk about zero gameat some point before we do that
, do you want to hear about elshaddai ascension of the
Metatron.
Ascension of the Metatron.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
El Shaddai Ascension of the Metatron.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
El Shaddai, El Shaddai.
I don't remember the next partof that song actually.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
It came out in 2011 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Oh El Shaddai is anaction-adventure game blending
biblical themes with surrealabstract art.
It follows Enoch, who is chosenby God to stop fallen angels
from corrupting the world.
With a visually unique stylecombining Japanese aesthetics

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with biblical stories, the gamefeatures fluid combat mechanics
and an unconventional narrative,making it a standout for those
seeking an artistic experiencebased on biblical mythology.
Boo, we don't use the phrasebiblical mythology, biblical
fact, biblical real.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, biblical real.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
What do you think old AI gave this one 40.
Ai is evil.
Keep that in mind.
Oh, 90.
75.
75.
On the Saints that Play channel, what we need to do is take the
games that are on this listthat are higher than, like,
let's say, 70, because above 70is a passing grade, are higher

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than like, let's say, 70, sobecause 70 above 70 is a passing
grade, and just have a streamone time where we just kind of
play through, play through alittle bit of each one of these.
I'm down for that.
Hey, if y'all want to see thaton the saints that play channel,
let us know if you guys want tosee jairus play guitar, praise
guitar praise all right, youneed to tell us about guitar
praise right now, because I lovea good rhythm game.

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All right, though I have norhythm.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
I can't dance, I know you can, not.
Our chance.
If you can tell me what that'sfrom, can you tell me what
that's?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
from Me personally.
Yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Okay, the first person to comment on this and
tell me what that song lyric isfrom gets a shout out next show.
There you go, all right.
Guitar Praise is a 2008Christian rhythm video game for
PC published by Digital Praise.
It uses contemporary Christianmusic with gameplay akin to that
of the Guitar Hero and RockBand games.

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Although it is only compatiblewith its own wired and cordless
USB guitar controllers, a secondguitar can be connected for
two-player mode.
The games can be played on acomputer running Microsoft,
windows or Mac OS X.

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While the game does not containa mode for vocals, it does
display the song's lyrics onscreen during the song.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
So that you can shout out your praises while playing
the game.
That's right.
I'm curious to what kind ofmusic is it?
Is it original music, or is itlike modern worship praise music
?
Or is it like church hymnals?
What is this?

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, this says expansion pack one includes 52
songs from 43 different artists.
It doesn't have a list of songshere what platforms was this on
pc and mac, so computer got it.
Yeah, I'm sorry, microsoft andmac, but on computer only Apple,
macintosh.

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You had to buy the specific USBguitar.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Guarantee you bet you 50 bucks.
What's that game called?
One more time Guitar Praise,guitar Praise.
You can use any other guitar.
I bet you there's a way to beable to do it.
Yeah, let me set a little notereminder here.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
And I'll give an update in next week's episode,
if I played.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Guitar Praise on PC.
Oh boy, I wonder if you can.
Actually, if it's on Steam, Ibet you it's not Guitar Praise,
yeah it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
It doesn't.
No, it's probably like go totheir website and download the
game type thing if or it's beendelisted.
Yeah, probably trying to, youknow, ride off of that huge
rhythm game craze.
We got like in the geez 2005 to2015 range.
Yeah, yeah, I just rememberplaying Guitar Hero for the

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first time when I was like 14,15.
So and that took off and thenfell off fast.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah, what was what's up with that?
Like it shot, it like explodedand then died.
Like there's no continuation ofit in any way.
What?
Just Guitar Hero?

Speaker 1 (41:15):
the rhythm games in general?
Yeah, just rhythm games.
I heard that they are trying tobring back Guitar Hero.
They did it with that weirdGuitar Hero game and it just did
not work, because they did adifferent guitar and it was six
buttons instead and they triedto make it more like pressing
frets on a button.
Yeah, Pressing buttons thatwere like frets.

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Yeah, Because they were stackedon one another, but there were
six of them and that didn't.
That didn't take off.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
yeah okay, so there's some actually like some decent
songs on here.
So, broken by 12 stones, dc10by audio adrenaline live song
casting crowns so yeah, it wasbiblical.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, christian, christian guitar hero, I'm down,
jesus Freak.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Oh yeah, there you go .

Speaker 3 (42:04):
What will people say when they hear that I'm a Jesus
Freak?
What will people do when theyfind out it's true?
Oh, oh.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Oh man, there's got some Hawk Nelson in here, some
Jeremy Camp Cutlass Heck yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
This sounds like we're playing something on
stream.
Yeah, it would probably getdemonetized.
Oh, I got a Newsboys on there.
We saw the newsboys you talkabout that all the time, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Petra Killer.
Here we go, reliant K All right.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Do you want to talk about Journey of Jesus, the
Calling 2012?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
They got some old school skillet on here.
Nice, I'm sorry, I'm reallystuck on this.
Okay, we can stay, and a wholecrap ton of striper.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
We can stay stuck on this game for a minute.
I'm actually almost done.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
A handful of Toby Mac .
Thousand foot crutch, there wego.
Thousand foot crutch, yeah, wow.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Zoe girl Opposed to Joey boy.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yeah, yeah, dive by Uh Zoe girl Opposed to Joey boy.
Yeah yeah Dive.
By Stephen Curtis Chapman.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
I'm diving in.
I'm going deep, head over myhead.
I want to be caught in the rush, lost in the flow, head on my
head.
I want to go.
The river's deep, the river'swide, the river's wider than
life.
So, sink or swim, I'm diving in.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Here comes another copyright strike on our channel.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
I don't know, maybe the song's so old that they
won't even notice all right.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Oh, you're just saying it's so identical to the
artist, I know, thank you.
Thank you all right, I'm readyto move on.
Okay, so we're going to talkabout journey of jesus, the
calling 2012 journey of j.
This was on PC and Mac, okay.
This educational game letsplayers experience the life of
Jesus Christ, participating inkey Bible events such as healing

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the sick and the Last Supper.
Through trivia and interactivelessons, players engage with
important Bible stories.
Although its educational valueis strong, its simplistic
gameplay and design make it moreof a tool for learning rather
than a game for hardcore gamers.
That phrase is getting thrownaround a lot.
What's that?

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Hardcore gamer?
Yeah, yeah, would you consideryourself a hardcore gamer?

Speaker 3 (44:32):
No.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
You did complete the community center in Harvey.
Valley.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
I mean, I do know how to grind.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
I do know how to find the beets and watermelons so I
can give them to the weirdcommunity pixies or sprites or
whatever those creatures are inthe community center.
There's no watermelon in thegame.
Sorry my bad, excuse me, but Ilove how that's the part that
you attach yourself to.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
No, because the hardest thing was the fishing.
That was the hardest bit I gotyou.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
I got you.
Yeah, I played a good portionof that game.
I think I got through maybe twoyears on it.
You said you finished under ayear.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
The no, it took me two because the first year is
like two in-game years, not reallife years not really two
in-game years?
Yeah, because the first yearwas like figuring out how to
play the game and I didn't evenrealize it until I got into my
winter of my first year thatthere's seasonal stuff and so I

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had to go back and look throughand figure out what's seasonal
and what's not.
Yeah, what did?

Speaker 1 (45:37):
I miss.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Prepare for year two.
Yeah, so, yeah.
So, like halfway through yeartwo, I knocked it all out just
because I knew exactly what Ineeded to get.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Just spoiler warning here, everybody who's listening
playing Stardew Valley.
I'm about to ask John aquestion.
If you don't want to hear it,skip ahead like 15 seconds.
What do you get for?

Speaker 2 (45:57):
completing the community center.
It unlocks a couple of thingsfor you.
One of the big things is itstarts the downfall of Jojo Mart
.
So Jojo Mart gets struck bylightning real bad, and it's
like beyond repair, I guess.
And the community comestogether and decides to boycott
Jojo Mart and so they got abusiness and later on in the

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game you can turn it into amovie theater.
Or it gets turned into a movietheater and it unlocks the
ability I believe it unlocks theability for you to take the
steps to get a Junimo hut onyour farm, because those little
Judemo little creatures, yeah,they will harvest crops for you,

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gotcha, within a certain spaceif you put a hut on the property
.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
So that was more than 15 seconds of spoilers.
Sorry, you're good.
All right, everybody.
Spoiler warning.
Over there we go, what do youthink?
Journey of Jesus.
The Calling calling score is 5065, all these are pretty high.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
I'm like I think we've hit another.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
I don't know how you want, let me do another one, but
let me find the lowest scoredone on my list just by the name
of this game.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
I don't.
I kind of feel like it's alittle blasphemous.
But maybe I'm wrong, but it'scalled.
It came out in 2023.
It's called I am jesus christ.
I am jesus christ.
She like that's just not a goodname for the game.
What's that about?

Speaker 1 (47:30):
it better be you playing as jesus christ,
otherwise that's bad yeah, I isthis.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Even the game just says christian video game is
that the summary of the game?
I guess, so no, it's not evenshowing me.
There's nothing like.
There's different articlesabout the game, but it's not
showing me anything about thegame.
But it's not showing meanything about the game.
Let me see if I can pull it upon Steam, since it's such a new

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game.
I am no, I'm not.
Oh, it says I'm not no, it saysI am Jesus Christ.
I just wanted to clarify oh,for the audience Got it.
I am not.
Walk in the footsteps of Jesusin this incredible first-person
retelling of the story of Christfrom birth to resurrection,

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perform amazing miracles,interact with a cast of biblical
figures and travel around theHoly Land from Jerusalem to the
Galilee.
Become the Messiah in I AmJesus Christ.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
That doesn't look awful.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know how I Am.
Jesus Christ, that doesn't lookawful.
Yeah, I don't know, I don'tknow how I feel about it.
I mean, the title is whatthrows it off, right, well, but
you are actually being Jesus,right, but the title could turn
somebody off of a game realquick if they're trying to be
edgy and look at us with ourcool title I don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Apparently there's some.
I just saw something about alaser beam being shot out of a
hand, so I don't know.
All right, I'm, I'm gone again.
I don't know what that's about.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
So do you want?
On my list, the?
This is the lowest scored game,okay I'm sorry audience.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
I'm sorry for all my it's.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
It's past john's bedtime.
Yeah, it's way past seveno'clock.
Left behind eternal forces okay, based on the left behind book
series, eternal forces is areal-time strategy game, aka an,
an RTS.
Have you guys ever played Ageof Mythology?

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That one's for you, bigfoot.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
He never says you guys.
He always says um Juras.
Have you ever played Age ofMythology?

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Eternal Forces is a real-time strategy game set in
the aftermath of the Rapture.
Players control believersresisting the antichrist's
forces while trying to spreadthe gospel.
The game's niche appeal to fansof the series is overshadowed
by its dated graphics,repetitive gameplay and poor ai

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ai being the characters yeah,the players in the game.
Knowledge, knowledge resultingin lackluster reviews.
What does Left Behind EternalForces score have?
I'm going to say 20.
This is to me still pretty high, all things considered.
Okay, 45.
45?

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, 45.
And that's the lowest on yourlist.
That is the lowest on my list.
Crazy, which we're goingthrough pretty quick, but we're
not going to cover all thesebecause we're going to start
wrapping up relatively soon.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Yeah, we need to.
We still need to talk about,you know, the Yep.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Hiddle-dee-dee hiddle .
I'll give one more game andthen we'll transition.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I don't really have any.
I've got one here called FiveGuardians of David, so it says
that it is a Diablo-style actionRPG.
You got me there.
Set in the ancient lands ofCanaan, lead and play the five
heroes battling across exoticlocations filled with archaic

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cultures, rich characters andpowerful artifacts.
Experience one of the greateststories ever told in this 11 act
epic nice yeah so 11 act epic?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
I don't know I wonder how long it takes.
That should beat this game,yeah I'm three hours.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
I'm trying to think of who they would make the five
guardians of david.
I'm assuming that they'retaking it from david's mighty
men, but I'm not totally sure.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
It's on Steam, let me see how much it is on Steam $12
.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Bob.
Guardians of David $10.
I was close and there'sapparently some add-ons.
Yeah, it's different.
It's different guys from hismighty men.
Illy azar is on here.
Okay, I'm picking up whatthey're throwing down.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
It looks pretty that's pretty cool are you ready
for my last game?
Yeah, so this is the only oneon my list that I have seen in
stores and always had theopportunity growing up to buy,
but never did.
This is the only.
I always thought for thelongest time that this was the

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only game based off the bible,just because I actually saw it
all the time.
Yeah, so it is called the biblegame.
Okay, it came out on theplaystation 2 and the game boy
advance.
The bible game is a trivia andmini game collection based on
stories and themes from thebible.
It features a quiz mode andvarious activities that focus on

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scripture and biblicalknowledge.
While it's a great educationtool, the, the gameplay is
limited, making it more suitablefor casual gaming and Bible
study rather than for seriousentertainment.
Yeah, you've seen this cover.
I know you had to have seen it.
I think it's Noah in the Ark.
It might be like somebody.

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What's it called again?

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Bible the video game, just the Bible game, the Bible
game.
I've never seen that before.
That looks like uh yeah, no,I've never seen that before, but
it kind of kind of throws offpokemon vibes.
I don't know, you think maybejust the art style so yeah,

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that's, that's the bible game.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
I remember it.
I remember existing.
That's a, that's a game, that'sa thing, you know it, remember
it, I remember it.
Existing, that's a game, that'sa thing, you know it's out
there.
But yeah, we're pretty much.
Yeah, that's video games.
I had fun talking about it.
It was enjoyable, I hope y'allenjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
I think the biggest takeaway was the adventure Bible
game and the your weird beachone.
No, not that, not that I said,that's a weird takeaway.
No, no, no, good one.
That was the the.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Bible rhythm game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'mmost definitely gonna look that
up later and try to praiseguitar.
I'm gonna try to play that andI'm gonna report back.
All right, good, speaking ofgames y'all at home in the
comment section, let us knowwhat games you played as a kid.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
That were Bible-related games, yeah,
positive or negative, or any ofthe games we talked about today.
What would you like to see usplay?

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Yeah, of what we talked about.
Tell us what games you want tosee us play on the livestream
channel when that launches.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
And if they're out there, we'll find them and we'll
play them, minus the MenaceBeach one.
We're not going to play thatone, but we will play the Bible
version of that.
Yeah, the Sunday Rush orwhatever the.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Sunday School Rush, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Whatever that was called.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
I can't even remember what it was called.
So, tyler, this is yourtransition.
Yep, we are now transitioninginto the corner.
We'll come up with an actual.
Yeah, we got in trouble usingthat theme song, so we need to.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
I need to I need to mix a, an ominous, like we who
know.
Yeah, I'll figure it out, butanyways, we figured to keep up
with the holiday that you're allexperiencing knowledge and
experiencing participating in.
Today, monday, unless it'stuesday 17th, unless it's
tuesday, we're going to talkabout leprechauns.

(55:53):
Oh yeah, most Good one, yousure got them, got all those
leprechauns.
Anyways, they're known as tinysupernatural beings from Irish
folklore Short red-hairedindividuals wearing coats and
hats, wearing a leather apron,sometimes often smoking a pipe.

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They're known for hiding theirtreasures at the end of rainbows
.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
I always thought it wasn't that their treasure was
at the end of rainbows.
I thought that their treasureemitted rainbows and that's why
you were able to find them.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
No, the idea was if you see a rainbow, you got to
follow it to the bottom or tothe Sure, but you would always
follow it.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
and at the end is the treasure, because the treasure
is emitting that light and thatrainbow, I think that's just the
Lucky Charms commercials,gotcha yeah.
Hey, famous leprechaun, Luckyyeah, Lucky the leprechaun Lucky
.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Yeah, not the other one, not the leprechaun.
Well, it's just you clarified.
You're like Lucky theleprechaun.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Well, from Lucky Charms, yes, but there's also I
don't know his name, but there'sthat horror franchise.
It's called Leprechaun.
Yeah, yeah, Leprechaun.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
No, but they are known for being mischievous,
cunning and practical jokers,and they use fairy magic.
So are they fairies, or like anoffshoot of fairies, or like an
offshoot of fairies, so okay, orare they just straight up their
own thing, fairy is like a termright, and it covers like a

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variety of things, but likeIrish, scottish, welsh folklores
, even some english folklore, itall has to do with the fairy
realm is where all thesemystical creatures come from and
so, like, fairy magic is veryspecific to it's because they're
from this other realm and theypass over to our realm and so if

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they, they can use, you know,if they're from the fairy realm,
they've got fairy magic andthey can use.
Fairy magic is the idea.
So fairy is like the idea thatfairy is a specific creature, is
a Disney construction, gotcha.
It's not like there's fairiesand then there's fairies is not

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and then there's no, it'sfairies is not a species.
No, that would be like what theydepict as fairies or sprite,
what's what you call sprite okay, like a small, feminine looking
, flying creature.
But yeah, fairy is just therealm, the fairy realm where all
things, or the fae realm wherethese things come from.
So, but anyways, you know, thebiggest thing I wanted to talk

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about with this is theleprechaun from Alabama.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
The leprechaun from Alabama.
Did you hear about this?
The overall wearing leprechaunIrish, alabama leprechaun.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
There was a community of people.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
It's always a community A community of people.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
So there's a community of people in Mobile
Alabama and they claimed thatthey saw a leprechaun in a tree.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Okay, there there was a whole news.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
This happened there's a whole news article.
It happened a couple years ago,but they did it.
They had a sketch uh artist, anamateur sketch artist, draw a
picture of what they saw.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
that's, that's like a song, it's literally a generic
shape of a face with twoeyeballs and then a leprechaun
hat on.
So a professional sketch artistdid that and it's just like if

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I could, looking at it, countthe lines.
There was six lines.
It's so undetailed.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Very generic, but it's a bunch of people.
They're on the street talkingto the camera crew.
They're like there was aleprechaun.
It was up in the tree.
I saw it with my eyes Straightup.
It felt like watching it.
It was a promo for the nextLepreun in the hood movie yeah,
but no, it's not, it's legit.

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They were just like we saw it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
We saw it and then they described it and they got a
quote, unquote professional todraw it well, that's an amateur
sketch, so I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
I don't know.
This is calling it the cricktoncrickton leprechaun, so I guess
that's in alabama.
I don't know how to.
I don't know if I'm pronouncingthat right or not you're not,
yeah, probably but it didn't.
It's close enough, it's closeenough to mobile alabama, then
you could say mobile alabama.

(01:01:04):
But uh, yeah, so 2006.
Uh, yeah, so 2006 is looks likewhen the report came out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Oh, okay, yeah, cause I was going to say and this is
something that I always talkabout all the time on this kind
of stuff of like, yeah, we're inthe time of smartphones, like
that might be part of thatperfect time of you weren't
going to get a good picture.
If this happened, like a coupleyears ago, I'd be skeptical,

(01:01:34):
like, oh, you could look at itlong enough to be able to
describe it to a sketch artist,yeah, but you couldn't pull out
your phone and take a picture ofit.
Yeah yeah, that's not the case.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Yeah, it's not.
Yeah, the only reason that Iknow about it is because
somewhere in the internet world,someone just did a snippet of
it and uploaded a video, and soit's from 2006.
It was, it made it onto thelocal news or whatever, but then
it went viral in 2023, sothere's that much of a gap from

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it, but I just thought it wasfunny.
Like you know, we all know whatleprechauns are.
We've all grown up with theidea of leprechauns and all this
stuff In Mobile, alabama.
I saw a leprechaun in that tree.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
It was a leprechaun.
It was an Irish leprechaun inMobile Alabama, mobile Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Where else?
You know, ireland no, whereelse?

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
You know Ireland?
No, no, they're not thereanymore.
No, they all left.
They all left.
Old St Patrick actually playedhis music and got him out, right
.
Yeah, he kicked him out withthe snakes, right?
You want to give a quicksummary of that, of what St
Patrick Day is actually about?
Well, or originally, who StPatrick is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
He's a missionary to the Irish Isles.
So is he's a missionary to theirish isles?
So I believe that he wasoriginally I can't remember if

(01:03:07):
it was german or english butbasically he was captured and
then he became a priest orwhatever and decided to go back
to Ireland to establish a churchand from that that's how the
gospel spread in Ireland wasthrough St Patrick.
But there's some things thatcame along with it, like he got

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all the snakes out of Irelandand that's why there's no snakes
in Ireland.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
But that's, that's myth right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Yeah, that's alleged.
Yeah, it's something thathappened.
But I'm trying to think ifthere's any other like things
that he's known for.
I can't think of anything otherthan that that he's just known
the colored green.
The colored green, yeah, I meanwe've got St Patrick's Day, the

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celebration of really kind ofoutlandish Irish culture.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
So Did you?
Probably not because you werehomeschooled, but I guess
anybody at home listening didyou in school do the whole thing
where it was.
The leprechaun will be at ourschool on St Patrick's Day.
So build a trap and see if youcan trap the leprechaun in your

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leprechaun trap.
We did that in elementary school, okay, and so we went to go to
music class or gym or whatever.
This was like kindergartenfirst, second grade, somewhere
in that range, yeah.
And they had us go to musicclass and on the way back, like

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the teacher walks into the roomand they're like the leprechaun
is, he's here, he's here, let'sgo.
And they made us chase afternothing through the halls and
outside the school I'm not evenjoking and it's like, oh, he got
away and we go back and theroom's all tore up and like all
the chairs and tables areflipped Because the leprechaun
was supposed to do it.
And it's like what a way toactually Get a kid's attention

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on something that isn't real.
That was, oh, I was soengrossed Like I don't see it,
where is it.
But they were trying to get usto run after the leprechaun in a
form like in a uniform singlefile line.
Everybody follow me single fileline through the property of the
school.
That's funny.
And got back and everything wastore up and it's like looking

(01:05:43):
back now it's like why did weput so much work into a trap of
something that wasn't even real?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
yeah, well, I think about like the whole.
I may get in trouble for thisone, but the elf on the shelf
deal around christmas time yeahand the amount of work that
people put into it.
I'm like why?
I mean I guess there's joy thatthey get out of it but yeah,

(01:06:09):
don't, don't do Elf on the Shelf.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Do a zebra on a cabinet.
I have no.
Okay, hold on.
I know it's St Patrick's Dayand we're going to get on a
small Christmas tangent.
Okay, in our household we don'thave Elf on the Shelf, we have
a zebra.
We got it from a white elephantgift exchange one year, okay,

(01:06:30):
when we were me and you werepart of the youth group.
Yeah yeah, yeah, and it's thestupidest looking thing.
It's like this long-legged,like just a thing that you're
supposed to sit around fordecoration, and over the years,
after me getting that, it haslike turned into kind of like a
ominous presence, like an elf onthe shelf, but more

(01:06:50):
ill-intented.
Yeah, again, not any childreninvolved in this.
This is all jokes within adultsin the family.
Yeah, yeah, but we named himNimrod and he is the zebra on a
cabinet instead of an elf on theshelf, and he doesn't bring
gifts, he just brings murderousintent into the household.
Oh my gosh, so it's just arunning gag in the house.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Yeah, last time I checked he's kind of falling
apart.
He had like fluff on him and ifyou shake him all the fluff is
just coming off.
So he's slowly tearing apart,just slowly dying.
But it was a joke for thelongest time between me and my
cousin where nimrod would end upin the creepiest places, like
unlike the last thing I did withhim before I got married and
moved out and moved in with mywife because I'm married and

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that's what you're supposed todo, yes, but only after you're
married, correct?
I had nimrod in my cousin's bedwith a butcher knife.
So a fun time, creepy I littlecreepy Mm-hmm, I'll get a
picture of Nimrod, okay, yeah,yeah, he's in the closet.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Be careful going in there, he might get you.
All right, well, Sorry that wasa weird tangent.
Yeah Well, there you go, guys.
If you are sick and tired ofElf on a Shelf, you can do Zebra
on a Cabinet.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
I have looked everywhere trying to get like
but only if you're psychotic.
If only you're psychotic.
It's Elf on a Shelf for adults.
Gotcha, the elf will kill you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
I think we need to wrap this up.
We do I'm getting tired.
Yeah, I'm tired.
I enjoyed this episode.
To wrap this up we do I'mgetting tired.
Yeah, I'm tired, I enjoyed thisepisode.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
This was a good episode.
I liked talking about the.
To be honest, I did not realizehow many Christian video games
there were.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
I said it earlier too .
I 100% agree with you.
Had no idea until I starteddoing the research for this
episode.
Yeah, like I said, I found 50and narrowed it down to 25.
And I'm sure there was probablyway more.
What I've noticed is a lot ofSteam PC games.

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Yeah, which a lot of timesthose are made by individuals.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
That's true, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
But looking back, like there's no major AAA
Christian Bible video games.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Yeah, yeah, maybe one day we'll get there.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Maybe we'll make one.
Hey, we can make a Saints thatServe.
Yeah, but it's not a Bible game, it's a game about the podcast
and us creating the podcast.
Hey, audience, would you play aSaints that Serve video game?
Let us know in the commentssection.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Yeah, let us know.
You know what Comment.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Let us know.
Let us know what you think thefirst level of the Saints that
Serve video game should be yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Or maybe each level is just an episode of the
podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
That would be cool.
That would be each episode, thetheming.
So you start out as me and youdoing the podcast episode and,
as we're talking, whatever we'retalking about ends up becoming
the level.
So, like example, this episode,we would end up being St
Patrick in Ireland getting ridof snakes.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Yeah, I'm all about it, all right.
Well, you know what Christ is.
Lord and the kingdom is.
Now we are the saints thatserve.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
The End what?