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"There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others," he said. "They are provocateurs."

Either I'm misunderstanding "make a game", or the Pope is calling anyone who worked for Wisdom Tree without being a practicing Christian a troll.

Wisdom Tree was a company that made questionably legal religious NES games, and later a few PC titles and ports.

Some of their work includes:

Bible Buffet
Spiritual Warfare
Bible Adventures

You can read more about Wisdom Tree here or straight from the horse's mouth.

I can see there's a lot of Wisdom in this lawsuit.

Greetings!

I agree with your post, until you speak of Wind Tree Games. Their software is somewhat as entertaining as a lame lamb, yet it has purpose. I've known missionaries in China that are thrown in prison and tortured for owning, carrying, or sharing any matter of the Bible. The same has been done in Israel, as the United Nations created the State of Israel and it does not allow Christian missionaries to bring the Bible and preach the gospels. Thus, in such a way as to minimize a seizure derived of hatred, it is a blessing to bring the Bible encoded onto a GameBoy cartridge. At best, despite the Wind Tree Games software being somewhat of certain entertainment value, it is an option for those of us that are on that Front that no NEWS CORPORATION dare exhibit. This all to say; love is the law; thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet...

(because everyone should know China and Israel hate the gospels, while Jesus Christ is acknowledged and respected in the Arab countries (that BUSH administraitors are trying to steal from).)
Related URL: KJV AV 1611 Holy Bible on a GameBoy cartridge

Actually, the story is a little funnier than that. Tengen tried to reverse engineer the lockout chip, but they couldn't in time to make their deadline. So they called the USPTO and asked them to send a copy of the chip spec, claiming that they needed the information for an ongoing legal case. The Patent Office gladly passed over the specs, and Tengen started making copies. By the time Nintendo had sued the pants off Tengen, they'd figured out how to disable the lockout by sending a small power surge to knockout the chip inside the system.

Another funny story from the NES era is the tale of Wisdom Tree Games, the derivative company created by Color Dreams to sell unauthorized NES cartridges out in the open without fear of retribution from Nintendo. How? The company and the games were biblically themed, and the carts were sold in Christian bookstores. Nintendo didn't dare sue a company making bible games, for fear of massive PR backlash. So Wisdom Tree thrived in its technically-illegal niche. In fact, it's still around today and still printing carts for the gameboy color.

The 10NES chip certainly made for some interesting stories.

Super Noah's Ark 3D was an unlicensed hack of Wolfenstein 3D for the SNES.

"Unlicensed" by Nintendo but "licensed" by Id Software. The Super NES version of Super 3D Noah's Ark looked like a Game Genie accessory or a Sonic & Knuckles cartridge because it used a "passthrough" for the Super NES's improved lockout chip that didn't succumb to the -5V trick that Wisdom Tree used in its NES games. The player put any standard game carrying a Nintendo Seal into the top slot and plugged the top into the Super NES. It is known that Id licensed the Wolf3d engine to Wisdom Tree; it is thought that Id did so as a protest against the censorship of Wolfenstein 3D.

The Moses puzzle game was called Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land. I had the gameboy version, which ironically, was stolen.

http://www.wisdomtreegames.com/exodus/

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

Super Noah's Ark 3D>

Spirtual Warrior

All of these are by Wisdom Tree