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Did anyone else ever play Bastard!! for the SNES? I ended up with a ROM of it somehow, and I must say, it's one of the worst games I've ever played. Google turned up this review.

On the Super Nintendo the Christian developer Wisdom Tree released: Super 3D Noah's Ark which was an FPS built on the Castle Wolfenstein 3D engine. In the game you had to feed the angry animals by shooting food at them with your slingshot. They would "go to sleep" when they got full. Of course if you didn't feed them in time they would kick your righteous ass just a soundly as the gestapo Wolfenstein.
A worty one of the emulators. Highly entertaining for about 5 minutes.

The same type of peope who buy Super 3D Noah's Ark and other games like that from companies like Wisdom Tree.

In order for Christian games to skyrocket, they're going to have to do better than this:

Super 3D Noah's Ark

The Wolfenstein 3D engine can be used for good!

(Sorry if this turns out to be a double post, the first one hasn't seemed to appear within five minutes)

Christian games will have to do better than this to skyrocket:

Super 3D Noah's Ark
Other Wisdom Tree games

Yes, this is what we have to benefit from Christian gaming community. The Wolfenstein engine can be used for good!

Yes, the story of Einstein's brain is quite interesting.

It's a somewhat long story, and pieces of it have been doled out to a number of people over the years, by Dr. Thomas Harvey, the person who originally did the autopsy on Einstein and removed his brain for scientific analysis. The stories of why and how this happened are varied, but suffice it to say that it was done for "scientific purposes".

Dr. Harvey had been "keeper of the brain" since Einstein's death in 1955. He took it home with him and it stayed with him wherever he moved to.

It is somewhat disconcerting when that Japanese professor caught up with Dr. Harvey and asked for a piece of the brain. Dr. Harvey promptly pulled it out on the cutting board and cut off a piece with a steak knife to give him. parent link.

The weirdness does not end there. There was a cross country road trip with Einstein's brain residing in a tupperware container in the back of a Buick Skylark.

I believe (someone correct me on this) that the final pieces may have been given by an aging Dr. Harvey to Princeton to reside with other "Einstein collectibles". The only problem I have with this is that it does not account for the pieces that were not encased in wax. Maybe somebody can enlighten me on this.

I don't see how this is "off-topic", as it could be argued that it is "Einstein's final years: the sequel".

Yes, the story of Einstein's brain is quite interesting.

It's a somewhat long story, and pieces of it have been doled out to a number of people over the years, by Dr. Thomas Harvey, the person who originally did the autopsy on Einstein and removed his brain for scientific analysis. The stories of why and how this happened are varied, but suffice it to say that it was done for "scientific purposes".

Dr. Harvey had been "keeper of the brain" since Einstein's death in 1955. He took it home with him and it stayed with him wherever he moved to.

It is somewhat disconcerting when that Japanese professor caught up with Dr. Harvey and asked for a piece of the brain. Dr. Harvey promptly pulled it out on the cutting board and cut off a piece with a steak knife to give him. parent link.

The weirdness does not end there. There was a cross country road trip with Einstein's brain residing in a tupperware container in the back of a Buick Skylark.

I believe (someone correct me on this) that the final pieces may have been given by an aging Dr. Harvey to Princeton to reside with other "Einstein collectibles". The only problem I have with this is that it does not account for the pieces that were not encased in wax. Maybe somebody can enlighten me on this.

I don't see how this is "off-topic", as it could be argued that it is "Einstein's final years: the sequel".

Does anybody remember the European release of "Biker Mice From Mars" on the SNES? SNICKERS ADS EVERYWHERE! Talk about out of place advertising... And how about the 7-UP Spot video games? Or the game starring Chester the Cheetah? At least they're not making games like that anymore. Oh well. At least "Yo Noid!" was somewhat fun.

Spiritual Warfare, an actually fun little NES gamethat was later ported to SNES and PC. I think I still have the 3.5" floppy for it.

I wonder why they don't do similar edits and remove the Nazis from World War II movies.

Actually, in some video games, they have. Hitler shaved off his mustache and became the Staatmeister in Wolfenstein 3D for Super NES. (id Software was so frustrated at the actions of Nintendo's censors that id sold a Wolf3d engine license to Wisdom Tree, an independent console software publisher, in retaliation.) The USA version of Bionic Commando for the NES had "Badds" instead of "Nazis".