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Video game developer
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video games for the 8-bit
8-bit
The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP/M operating system. The Zilog Z80 and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers...
Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
(NES). While most companies that developed NES games obtained an official license from Nintendo
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
to produce game cartridges, Color Dreams was unusual in that it developed NES games without an official license. To produce these unlicensed games, Color Dreams had to bypass the NES's "lock out" chip (the 10NES
10NES
The 10NES system is a lock-out system designed for the American version of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. Various companies found ways to bypass the authorization chip.-Design:...
). The company successfully bypassed the system, developed a game (Baby Boomer), and released it in 1989. Several other titles followed in 1989 and 1990, including Captain Comic
Captain Comic
The Adventures of Captain Comic is a classic 1988 MS-DOS platform game which is known for being one of the first side-scrolling games made for IBM PC. It was developed entirely by Michael Denio. The PC version of the game was distributed as shareware. Later a version for the NES was published by...
, Crystal Mines, and Robo Demons.
As a result of its reputation for releasing poor games, Color Dreams formed the label Bunch Games in 1990. Bunch Games was meant to be a label that Color Dreams could use to release lower quality games so that its reputation would not be damaged further. In 1991, Color Dreams formed Wisdom Tree
Wisdom Tree
Wisdom Tree is an American manufacturer and distributor of unlicensed Christian video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, PC, Mac, and Sega Genesis, headquartered in unincorporated Pima County, Tucson, Arizona, United States...
for the purpose of releasing Christianity-themed games
Christian video games
Christian video games were first marketed successfully by BibleBytes in the early 1980s on several different microcomputer platforms and in the late 1980s for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Wisdom Tree. Now they are made by many different developers...
. The Wisdom Tree label resulted in Color Dreams' best selling titles, including Spiritual Warfare and Bible Adventures
Bible Adventures
Bible Adventures is a Christian video game by Wisdom Tree and not sold through video game retailers, first released in 1991 for the NES, and re-released in 1995 for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis. It contains three different games: Noah's Ark, Baby Moses, and David and Goliath, all of which are...
. Wisdom Tree is also noted for creating the only unlicensed Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
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game to ever be released in North America, Super 3D Noah's Ark
Super 3D Noah's Ark
Super Noah's Ark 3D is an unlicensed video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and for DOS. It was released by the biblical video game producer Wisdom Tree in 1994, and was the only commercial SNES game that was not officially sanctioned by Nintendo...
. While Wisdom Tree remains active today and is still selling religious video games, Color Dreams quit the video game business in the mid 1990s. Wisdom Tree is no longer associated with Color Dreams.
One Color Dreams project that was never released was a game based on the movie Hellraiser
Hellraiser
Hellraiser is a 1987 British and American horror film based upon the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the film. Hellraiser explores themes of sadomasochism and morality under duress and fear. The film spawned a series of sequels...
. The game cartridge, or “Super Cartridge” as it was called at the time, contained an extra processor that modified the tiles in the cartridge RAM
Ram
-Animals:*Ram, an uncastrated male sheep*Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela-Military:*Battering ram*Ramming, a military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another...
without alerting the NES processor. This allowed for enhanced graphic effects rarely seen on the NES, such as a fully animated background running without the lag usually found with such tricks. The extra processor also performed palette swap
Palette swap
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ping between scans
Scan line
A scan line or scanline is one line, or row, in a raster scanning pattern, such as a line of video on a cathode ray tube display of a television set or computer monitor....
of the TV to give the illusion of extra color. Because of delays in production, development problems, lack of a market for unlicensed games based on horror movies, and the exorbitant amount of money it took to make each “Super Cartridge”, the project was eventually abandoned.
Color Dreams NES games
- Baby BoomerBaby Boomer (video game)Baby Boomer is an unlicensed action video game created by Color Dreams for the NES. It was developed during 1988 and released in 1989 for an exclusively North American market.-Summary:...
- Captain ComicCaptain ComicThe Adventures of Captain Comic is a classic 1988 MS-DOS platform game which is known for being one of the first side-scrolling games made for IBM PC. It was developed entirely by Michael Denio. The PC version of the game was distributed as shareware. Later a version for the NES was published by...
- Challenge of the DragonChallenge of the DragonChallenge of the Dragon was an unlicensed game developed by Color Dreams in 1990 by Dan Burke, John Dywer, Jon Valesh, Dan Lawton. Dan Burke worked on the cover design, art animation, and manual art. Jon did sound programming and infrastructure design...
- Crystal Mines
- Crystal Mines IICrystal Mines IICrystal Mines II is a puzzle video game designed by Ken Beckett for Color Dreams and licensed to Atari, who published it as a cartridge for their Atari Lynx color handheld game console. The game was a sequel to Crystal Mines for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The original Lynx game features...
(Atari Lynx) - Free Fall (Prototype)
- King Neptune's AdventureKing Neptune's AdventureKing Neptune's Adventure is an unlicensed adventure game created for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Color Dreams. You play as Neptune, as you venture though ships, oceans and Atlantis.-Gameplay:...
- Master Chu and the Drunkard HuMaster Chu and the Drunkard HuMaster Chu and the Drunkard Hu is a one or two player platform video game released in the United States for the NES by Joy Van in 1989 and was published by Color Dreams...
- Menace BeachMenace BeachMenace Beach is a video game that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Color Dreams in 1990...
- Metal FighterMetal FighterMetal Fighter is a side scrolling shooter game developed by Joy Van and published by Color Dreams in US, Joy Van in Asia. It was published from the Kinema Music as Metal Fighter μ " in Japan in 1991.-External links:* at GameFAQs...
- Operation Secret StormOperation Secret StormOperation Secret Storm is an action-oriented NES game where you control a secret agent named George B. as he fights the Iraqi army. The player fights a lot of Arabs as he gets deeper and deeper into Iraq.-Reception:...
- P'radikus Conflict
- Pesterminator
- Raid 2020Raid 2020Raid 2020 is a NES action video game that takes place in the year 2020.-Summary:The object is to defeat all the drug dealers, defeat the drug lord Pit Bull, and eradicate drugs from the streets of America. As agent Shadow, the player faces a dystopian future world where moral collapse is inevitable...
- RobodemonsRobodemonsRobodemons is an action video game with shooting elements that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Color Dreams on December 1989...
- Secret Scout in the Temple of Demise
- Silent AssaultSilent AssaultSilent Assault is an unlicensed game created for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Joy Van and published by Color Dreams. You play as the only one who was unaffected by an alien power, as the Earth's military forces are under control from the deadly alien force.-Gameplay:An alien power has taken...
As Bunch Games
- Castle of DeceitCastle of DeceitCastle of Deceit is a sidescrolling game for the NES where the player takes control of a wizard trapped in the titular castle with only one spell to defend himself.-Story:...
- Galactic CrusaderGalactic Crusader-Gameplay:The game is a top-down perspective shooter, often compared to the popular space shooter Galaga. The player progresses through numerous stages, using missiles and lasers to shoot oncoming enemies. One notable difference from Galaga is Galactic Crusaders many bosses which the player...
- Mission CobraMission CobraMission Cobra, released in Australia as Sidewinder, is a 1989 action arcade game developed by Sachen and published by HES Interactive...
- Moon RangerMoon RangerMoon Ranger is an action video game that was developed by Odyssey Software and published by Bunch Games. An alien species has set up a dormant spacecraft on the Moon to mine the solar system's resources. As a side note, this will destroy the Earth....
- Tagin Dragon
As Wisdom Tree
- Bible AdventuresBible AdventuresBible Adventures is a Christian video game by Wisdom Tree and not sold through video game retailers, first released in 1991 for the NES, and re-released in 1995 for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis. It contains three different games: Noah's Ark, Baby Moses, and David and Goliath, all of which are...
- Bible Buffet
- ExodusExodus (video game)Exodus is a video game that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Color Dreams through its Wisdom Tree label in 1991. Like all Wisdom Tree games, Exodus was not officially licensed by Nintendo....
- Joshua
- King of Kings: The Early YearsKing of Kings: The Early YearsThe King of Kings is an unlicensed NES video game game published in 1991 by Wisdom Tree, the creators of Bible Adventures.-Gameplay:Gameplay was split into 3 games, each illustrating a Bible story relating to the early years of Jesus...
- Spiritual Warfare
- Sunday FundaySunday FundaySunday Funday is a Christian video game that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Wisdom Tree, formerly a subsidiary label of Color Dreams, in 1995. The game was the last to be released by any company for the American NES...
- Super 3D Noah's ArkSuper 3D Noah's ArkSuper Noah's Ark 3D is an unlicensed video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and for DOS. It was released by the biblical video game producer Wisdom Tree in 1994, and was the only commercial SNES game that was not officially sanctioned by Nintendo...
(SNES)