History VideoGame / CaptainBibleInDomeOfDarkness

[[caption-width-right:320:"BIBLE POWER!"]]

''Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness'', often shortened to ''Captain Bible'', is a Christian video game made for the DOS [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]] in 1994. A Christian organization called the Bible Corps finds a city encased in a dome of darkness, a forcefield around the city which makes the people inside [[HollywoodAtheist very susceptible to being deceived]]. They manage to break a small hole into the dome, through which our hero, Captain Bible, must enter and free the people inside using the power of his Sword of Spirit, Shield of Faith, and various bible verses.

The game is somewhat surreal, and inside the city you will find things like robots that try to tell you things that contradict what is in the Bible, [[MindScrew trippy vortexes]] that teleport you to other parts of the game, and a woman worshipping a guy who looks like Steve Jobs wearing a lamb hat. Entering the forcefield erases all of Captain Bible's Scripture verses from his computer Bible, but he can find them inside the city from various Scripture stations that give you some Bible verses. He uses these verses to confront and then battle the lying robots, and persuading the deceived people inside to agree with him. His goal is to destroy the dome by [[HumongousMecha finding and piloting a giant robot called the Unibot]] and saving the city.

* FakeDifficulty: There are ''way'' too many Bible verses to collect and choose from. Some verses are used multiple times and they never leave your computer Bible if they are no longer going to be used. Before long, you'll have dozens of verses to look through every time you need to fight a robot, open a door, or help a deceived victim.

* TheFundamentalist: Captain Bible and the Bible Corps may come off like this to the player if they are not a Christian.

* SurrealHumor: Not intentionally, but this game might come off like this to anyone who isn't a Christian fundie....

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Captain Bible's skills are either this or the greatest case of "fake it 'till you make it" in history. For someone high up enough in the Bible Corps to be named ''Captain Bible'', the good Captain can't remember a single verse of the bible from heart and needs them downloaded to his digital bible to use them. The only non-story related

* KillerRobot: The cybers, who attack Captain Bible and spread lies to the city's inhabitants.

* ScienceIsWrong: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: While it often appears to be saying that science is bad, in actuality, it is simply stating that there's more to the world than just the scientific explanation for things. While rainbows are indeed refracted light, the key word in the lies told by the robots is, "just." In actuality, the game is teaching that the scientific laws put in there have a purpose as opposed to being a flashy side-effect of the world. Evolution is shot down by the verse that explains creationism, but that has no effect on the rest of science. In fact, Bible Co. is quite advanced in it's works and uses many modern devices itself!

''Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness'', often shortened to ''Captain Bible'', is a Christian video game made for the PC in 1994. A Christian organization called the Bible Corps finds a city encased in a dome of darkness, a forcefield around the city which makes the people inside [[HollywoodAtheist very susceptible to being deceived]]. They manage to break a small hole into the dome, through which our hero, Captain Bible, must enter and free the people inside using the power of his Sword of Spirit, Shield of Faith, and various bible verses.

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* SpaceWhaleAseop: Learn the bible, and god will give you a magic sword so you can kill robots.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: But of course! The main point of the game is to defeat cybers and rescue the city by fighting the evil lies with your bible verses.

* BlatantLies: Many of the lies stated by the Cybers are lies obvious to many. Justified in that their purpose is to cause people to lose faith in their God, not to lie effectively. In fact, failing to counter their lies with a biblical verse will cause them to zap some "faith" from you (represented by the fact that the in-game health bar has the word "faith" written on it).

* ExcusePlot: The game's plot is incredibly cheesy. The game's true purpose, however, is mainly to aid others to memorize the verses of the bible.

* TheFundamentalist: Captain Bible and the Bible Corps may come off like this to the player if they are not Christians.

* AuthorTract: As you might expect from a Christian game, the game seems fairly intolerant of any viewpoints other than Christianity... And pretty fundamentalist Christianity at that.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Christianity = Good. All others = Bad.

* TheFundamentalist: Captain Bible and the Bible Corps may come off like this to the player.
* HeelFaceTurn: The people that you save inside the city all do one.

* ReligiousBruiser: Captain Bible.

* BlatantLies: "CYBER LIE!"
** Averted with some quotes... For example, one cyber tells you that "A rainbow is just light refracting through water, not a creation of God with a divine purpose." Um, actually a rainbow ''is'' just light refracting through water, and we know exactly how they work with no divine intervention involved. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow No, really.]]
*** False! Christians believe that all of the world's laws were designed by {{God}} Himself, up to and including the rainbow. The lie here was God not having anything to do with the rainbow, not that the rainbow is light refracting through water. After the Flood stopped, the first rainbow appeared in the sky. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Although, people tend to get]] [[WildMassGuessing rather split about the exact reason for why that was so, scientifically speaking.]] We will stop here before we get a {{Flame War}} on our hands.
* CatchPhrase: "BIBLE POWER!"

* ScienceIsWrong: This game strongly implies this. Remember kids, rainbows are divine and not simply light reflecting off water particles, and evolution is wrong and incompatible with Christianity! Strangely, the city, the Bible Corps station, and the Scripture stations are high-tech, which would imply that some science was involved in making them.

''Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness'', often shortened to ''Captain Bible'', is a Christian video game made for the PC in 1994. A Christian organization called the Bible Corps finds a city encased in a dome of darkness, a forcefield around the city which makes the people inside [[HollywoodAtheist very susceptible to being deceived]]. They manage to break a small hole inside of the dome, through which our protagonist, Captain Bible, must enter and free the people inside using the power of his Sword of Spirit, Shield of Faith, and various bible verses.

The game is somewhat surreal, and inside the city you will find things like robots that try to tell you things that contradict what is in the bible, [[MindScrew trippy vortexes]] that teleport you to other parts of the game, and a woman worshipping a guy who looks like Steve Jobs wearing a lamb hat. Entering the forcefield erases all of Captain Bible's bible verses from his computer bible, but he can find them inside of the city from various scripture stations that give you some bible verses. He uses these verses to confront and then battle the lying robots, and convincing the deceived people inside to agree with him. His goal is to destroy the dome by [[HumongousMecha finding and piloting a giant robot called the Unibot]] and saving the city.

* EasyEvangelism: The people who are deceived inside of the dome just need to hear a few bible verses to change their minds.
* FakeDifficulty: There are ''way'' too many bible verses to collect and choose from. Some verses are used multiple times and they never leave your computer bible if they are no longer going to be used. Before long, you'll have dozens of verses to look through every time you need to fight a robot, open a door, or help a deceived victim.

* ScienceIsWrong: This game strongly implies this. Remember kids, rainbows are divine and not simply light reflecting off of water particles and evolution is wrong and incompatible with Christianity! Strangely, the city, the Bible Corps station, and the scripture stations are high-tech, which would imply that some science was involved in making them.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The game has dozens of bible verses, and when you get enough of them, it's hard to know which one to pick, even to the point that most adults have some difficulty completing this game. It's unlikely that most kids would have the patience it takes to get far or beat that game... Not to mention a few [[BrokenAesop Broken Aesops]] here and there.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: So... why ''does'' Captain Bible have to find bible quotes to confront the cybers? Why can't he just kill them right off the bat?

The game is somewhat surreal, and inside the city you will find things like robots that try to tell you things that contradict what is in the bible, [[MindScrew trippy vortexes]] that teleport you to other parts of the game, and a woman worshipping a guy who looks like Steve Jobs wearing a lamb hat. Entering the forcefield erases all of Captain Bible's bible verses from his computer bible, but he can find them inside of the city from various scripture stations that give you some bible verses. He uses these verses to confront that then battle the lying robots and convincing the deceived people inside to agree with him. His goal is to destroy the dome by [[HumongousMecha finding and piloting a giant robot called the Unibot]] and saving the city.

* BrokenAesop: So, so many! Science and religion are incompatible. Hit your kids. Every doctrine other than Christianity is completely wrong and is a lie.

The game is somewhat surreal, and inside the city you will find things like robots that try to tell you things that contradict what is in the bible, [[MindScrew trippy vortexes]] that teleport you to other parts of the game, and a woman worshipping a guy who looks like Steve Jobs wearing a lamb hat. Entering the forcefield erases all of Captain Bible's bible verses from his computer bible, but he can find them inside of the city from various scripture stations that give you some bible verses. He uses these verses to confront that then battle the lying robots and convincing the deceived people inside to agree with him. His goal is to destroy the dome by finding and piloting a giant robot and saving the city.

* Badass Preacher: Captain Bible, who goes around killing giant robots with a sword and shield. Oh, and forget things like resting or using potions - he ''prays'' to restore his health!