"Would it be acceptable to play this in church?"

I guess it would depend on the church you go to. Anyway, if you need to get in your daily reading and want to play some Game Boy or you need to repent on the go, then this little black cartridge that is no way legally endorsed by Nintendo is the one for you. I received it for Christmas one year and immediately suspected that it was procured from a store specialized in Christian goods. Heck, they made a Christian version of Magic: The Gathering, why not stick the Good Book on the Game Boy as long as you're secularizing a major religion?

The King James Bible on Game Boy covers every Bible verse from Genesis 1:1 on down to Revelation 22:21. Since the game is basically a historical text translated to a cartridge, there isn't a lot of room for pictures, so a person can't possibly judge this game on its graphical merits (unless you hate the font). However, it comes with a few mini-games. You can play a variant of Bible Hangman in which sheep kick the bucket instead a man getting hanged on a gallows. It's not an easy game - the selection of words covers everything in the Bible from the word ''ark'' to ''Nebuchadnezzar.'' Seeing how many sheep you can kill off is fun once you get tired of seeing if you can read the entire Bible in one sitting.

Four hundred words, four hundred words ..... how on earth am I going to squeeze four hundred words out of a review for the King James Bible on Game Boy, I say, a review for the King James Bible on Game Boy? We could argue about the morality and possible gold-digging involved in such a marketing move, but I say, if it gets some hapless hardcore gamer involved in a religion of some type, isn't that a good thing? But we don't want to argue about ethics. That's not what we're here to do. Control isn't much of an issue. Move the D-pad down to scroll forward through the text, press Up to look at previous Scriptures. On the hangman game, the A button chooses letters. If it's right, it pops up in the appropriate blank. If it's wrong, a sheep dies. And we're back on the sheep death. Great, just great.

I commend myself on being able to make this review for such a novelty piece of gaming lore four hundred words long. And the King James Bible, released by the Christian company Wisdom Tree, is nothing more than that: a novelty. You can't expect anyone to take the Word of God seriously on a medium that doesn't usually promote values such as those exhibited in Christianity. And this isn't even a game: there are minimal graphics and no real aspects of gameplay - just one heck of a story if you're willing to sit down and read it. Don't get it if you're opposed to the Christian faith or have a version of the Bible you can understand better. If you can find it, well, good. I don't even know if I have my copy. Get it for novelty purposes and novelty purposes only.

Score: 5