To rescue heroes imperiled by villains in the make-believe world of video games, most kids would call on laser-guided missiles or at least a well-placed karate kick.
Twelve-year-old Antoine Babicz turns to an arsenal of Bible questions. Answering them gets Moses out of a jam and shows the Egyptians a thing or two.
Like countless adolescent boys, Antoine is enamored of his Gameboy machine, but he loads it with a game called Exodus instead of the Super Mario Brothers. In another barometer of shifting popular culture, Exodus and other games such as Super 3-D Noah's Ark are part of an emerging niche of Christian video toys and action figures that are being marketed to parents fed up with Hollywood sex and violence and ready for value in toys beyond the price tag. …
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA); April 21, 1995
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