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Wisdom Tree's titles always had a Christian theme to them, and were often sold in Christian bookstores and the like. The games attempted to use the medium to tell Bible stories in such a way as to make them interesting to children of the video game era. Interestingly, many of their games were simple graphics and text hacks of titles previously released by Color Dreams, with appropriate changes in theme.

The company's first release as Wisdom Tree was Bible Adventures , a three-in-one multicart which was loosely based on gameplay elements found in the American Super Mario Bros. 2, applied to three different Bible stories: Noah collecting animals for the Ark, saving Baby Moses from Pharaoh's men, and re-enacting the story of David and Goliath. The game sold reasonably well, and encouraged the company to continue pursuing this path.

Other Wisdom Tree games included Exodus (a hack of Color Dreams's old Crystal Mines Boulder DashC64 Boulder Dash aka Rockford is a classic series of computer games for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 400/800 home computers, released in 1984 and later ported to the NES, PC, and many other platforms. It was programmed by Peter Liepa and publishe clone, with the story of the IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea.ites' 40-year desert trek grafted onto it), King of Kings (similar to Bible Adventures, but now featuring three events in the early life of Jesus Christ), and Bible Buffet (a "video board game" with Bible quizzes). By common agreement amongst NES afficionadoes, their best game was Spiritual WarfareSpiritual Warfare was an unlicensed game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Color Dreams and released through its Wisdom Tree label. It is a religious-themed game heavily-influenced by The Legend of Zelda''. The player controls a young Ch, an action-adventure title similar in style to The Legend of ZeldaThe Legend of Zelda was the first game of the Legend of Zelda series of video games, made by Nintendo under the direction of game creator Shigeru Miyamoto. The game was inspired by Miyamoto's imaginary adventures in the woods behind his home from when he, albeit with the requisite religious theme (the player, as a foot soldier in the Lord's army, is tasked with saving the souls of the heathen populace). The company also released ports of some of these games to the Sega GenesisThe Sega Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by SEGA in North America in 1989. Outside of the U. the console was known as the Sega Megadrive. It succeeded the 8-bit Sega Master System and was one of the main contenders in the console wars of and Game BoyThe Game Boy ( Japanese: ) is a series of battery powered handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo. It is the best selling game system to date. The Game Boy was the second portable system created by Nintendo (the first being the Game & Watch series startin, as well as Bible-reading programs (both King James and NIV versions) for Game Boy. Their Sunday Funday was the last commercial NES release in the United States, with a 1995 copyright date.

Arguably, the Wisdom Tree game with the most interesting history behind it is Super 3D Noah's Ark, the only unlicensed game ever released for the American Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Essentially a graphics hack of Wolfenstein 3D, this game featured the player, as Noah, attempting to quell upset animals on the Ark by flinging sleep-inducing fruit at them. A popular urban legend regarding this game holds that id Software, the creators of Wolfenstein 3D, were so disgusted with the high amount of censorship that was performed on the game for its SNES port (among other things, all Nazi references were deleted and the dogs replaced by rats) that they gave the Super NES code away to Wisdom Tree, simply out of spite for Nintendo. While that story may or may not be true, the fact remains that this game does retain much of the map structure and layout of the SNES Wolfenstein 3D.

Wisdom Tree is still active today, and still selling their religious video games. They have also released an all-in-one "TV controller" system featuring seven of their NES games in a single, self-contained unit.