Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land

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Exodus Joshua
Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land/Joshua & The Battle of Jericho
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Wisdom Tree
Developer: Wisdom Tree
Genre: Puzzle
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1993 ESG-1 US (Joshua) 1994 JSG-1
Non-Sega versions Game Boy IBM PC Nintendo Entertainment System

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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 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.

Though the games do 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

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. 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 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).

Magazine articles

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

Physical scans

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Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land

Mega Drive, US (Exodus)
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, US (Joshua)
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 22e6fc04 MD5 2680589a66365b787c36141401a2cbfb SHA-1 a85fb15d29dc43d3bf4a06de83506c77aba8a7d5	512kB	1993	Cartridge (US)	Exodus
✔	CRC32 da9e25aa MD5 c3b02c8bfcfc274cc222378547308a8b SHA-1 a6c47babc7d84f8f411e77b9acdf01753d3a5951	256kB	1993	Cartridge (US)	Joshua