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Last week it was revealed that the notoriously awful unlicensed SNES game, Super 3D Noah's Ark, was getting reprinted on an actual SNES cart for $65 a pop. But why now? And why that particular game - an infamously awful re-skinned Wolfenstein clone?To get to the bottom of this I spoke to the two companies behind its re-release: Christian publisher Wisdom Tree - who created the original SNES release in 1994 - and Piko Interactive, a new company that manufactures prints of games on outmoded consoles.
In an e-mail correspondence with Eurogamer, Wisdom Tree's Brenda Huff says she was aware of the game's collector's item status since it was the only unofficial SNES game ever released. You see, Wisdom Tree's then-parent company Color Dreams was the only company that found a legal method of circumventing Nintendo's SNES "lockout chip." This required Super 3D Noah's Ark to be manufactured in odd-looking carts that needed an official Nintendo game to be plugged in on top of them in order to run.
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