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Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land

Publisher: Wisdom Tree

Developer: Wisdom Tree

Genre: Puzzle

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1993		ESG-1

Non-Sega versions

For the Mega Drive emulator, see Exodus.

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Crystal Mines is a 1989 unlicensed puzzle game for the NES by Color Dreams. When they established Wisdom Tree, they repackaged the game in 1991 as Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land. This version would be remade for the Sega Mega Drive in 1993, respectively.

Though the game has a TMSS check, it will only do the $A14000 write if it detects the region of the console it is running on as NTSC-U — therefore, the game will only boot on either any US Mega Drive or on any other Model 1 Mega Drive without TMSS (making that a partly useless form of region lockout).

Exodus would be followed by Joshua & The Battle of Jericho the following year, an almost identical game.

Gameplay

As Moses you must collect all the bags with "M" on them scattered throughout each maze. and shoot; you can hold them down for rapidfire. Shooting destroys blockades and enemies. Once all the M bags are gathered, find the exit to move on to the next level. In between each level, you must answer questions related to the story of the Bible of the game's theme; getting them wrong appears to be inconsequential to the outcome of the game (this needs investigation).

Magazine articles

Main article: Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

(RU)

40

^[1]

	40
Based on 1 review

Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Multi-cart appearances

No results

Technical information

Main article: Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	22e6fc04
MD5	2680589a66365b787c36141401a2cbfb
SHA-1	a85fb15d29dc43d3bf4a06de83506c77aba8a7d5

512kB

1993

Cartridge (US)

References

↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 109

Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land
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[1] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 109

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-[[File:Joshua_MDTItleScreen.png|right|thumb|''Joshua'' title screen.]]'''''Crystal Mines''''' is a 1989 unlicensed puzzle game for the NES by Color Dreams. When they established [[Wisdom Tree]], they repackaged the game twice: in 1991 as '''''Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land''''' and in 1992 as '''''Joshua & The Battle of Jericho''''', with ''Joshua'' labeled a sequel to ''Exodus''. These two versions would be remade for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] in 1993 and 1994, respectively.
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+{{OtherPage|desc=the [[Mega Drive]] emulator|page=Exodus}}{{sub-stub}}'''''Crystal Mines''''' is a 1989 unlicensed puzzle game for the [[NES]] by Color Dreams. When they established [[Wisdom Tree]], they repackaged the game in 1991 as '''''Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land'''''. This version would be remade for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] in 1993, respectively.
+Though the game has a [[TMSS]] check, it will only do the $A14000 write if it detects the region of the console it is running on as NTSC-U — therefore, the game will only boot on either any US Mega Drive or on any other Model 1 Mega Drive without TMSS (making that a partly useless form of region lockout).
+''Exodus'' would be followed by ''[[Joshua & The Battle of Jericho]]'' the following year, an almost identical game.
-Though the game does have a [[TMSS]] check, they will only do the $A14000 write if they detect the region of the console they are running on as US — therefore, the games will only boot on either any US Mega Drive or on any other Model 1 Mega Drive without TMSS (making that a partly useless form of region lockout).
+==Gameplay==
+As Moses you must collect all the bags with "M" on them scattered throughout each maze. {{A}} and {{C}} shoot; you can hold them down for rapidfire. Shooting destroys blockades and enemies. Once all the M bags are gathered, find the exit to move on to the next level. In between each level, you must answer questions related to the story of the Bible of the game's theme; getting them wrong appears to be inconsequential to the outcome of the game (this needs investigation).
+==Magazine articles==
+{{mainArticle|{{PAGENAME}}/Magazine articles}}
+==Physical scans==
+{{ratings|MD}}
+{{Scanbox
+| console=Mega Drive
+| region=US
+| front=Exodus MD US Box Front.jpg
+| back=Exodus MD US Box Back.jpg
+| spinemissing=yes
+| cart=Exodus MD US Cart.jpg
+| manual=Exodus MD US Manual.pdf
+}}
+==Multi-cart appearances==
+{{MulticartList}}
+==Technical information==
+{{mainArticle|{{PAGENAME}}/Technical information}}
+===ROM dump status===
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+}}
-Gameplay of both versions is identical: you are the main character (Moses or Joshua, respectively) and you must collect all the bags with M on them (''Joshua'': coins with $ on them) scattered throughout each maze. {{A}} and {{C}} shoot; you can hold them down for rapidfire. Shooting destroys blockades and enemies. Once all the M bags are gathered, find the exit to move on to the next level. In between each level, you must answer a bunch of questions related to the story of the Bible of the game's theme; getting them wrong appears to be inconsequential to the outcome of the game (this needs investigation).
+==References==
+<references/>
-[[Category:Mega Drive Games]]
+{{ExodusOmni}}
-[[Category:1993 Mega Drive Games]]
+[[Category:Unlicensed Mega Drive games]]
-[[Category:Mega Drive Puzzle Games]]
-[[Category:Unlicensed Mega Drive Games]]