Sort of a primitive Pikmin for the Ned Flanders set, Noah's Ark is probably the most strategically complex Moppet Video game, and also the only one to deal with the mass genocide of most of humanity. God in this game is even more unrelentingly unmerciful than the usual yaweh of the Old Testament, not only flooding the earth once, but again and again until poor noah can't take anymore. Noah has to escort the animals back to the ark, one by one, all while the flood waters get ever higher and higher, promising less and less ecodiversity. Once you get a pair in front of the Ark, they enter, and you can keep going until you have rescued all the animals you can, or when you have rescued all the animals you want to repopulate the world.
Controls are simple, with just joystick movement to control noah and one button to get animals to follow him. There's a small amount of strategy involved in which order you get the animals, and also a bonus unicorn, though I have never managed to catch it. Overall, a more interesting game than most Moppet Video titles, but still fairly mediocre. The graphics and sound are blah, even for the time, but as semireligious games go, it's as least as good as Bible Adventures, and better than the following Noah's Ark game:
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