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- Air Raid ($33,433) Loose. $8,143.50. Complete in Box. $33,433.00. New. N/A. A complete boxed version of this shoot-em-up sold for well over $30,000. The curious T-shape design of the cartridge is a big contributor to this value and explains why even the cartridge on its own is worth an absolute fortune.
- Red Sea Crossing ($10,400) Loose. $1,685.36. Complete in Box. N/A. New. The story behind this game is as mysterious as the biblical event that inspired it. Steve Slack at Inspirational Video Concepts developed Red Sea Crossing and it depicts Moses parting and traversing the Red Sea while leaving Egypt.
- Out of Control ($6,008) Loose. $381.91. Complete in Box. $6,008.95. New. $1,403.01. Good investments often become poor ideas once everyone catches wind of them, and this can leave latecomers in the lurch.
- Eli's Ladder ($5,419) Loose. $2,001.89. Complete in Box. $5,419.87. New. $8,029.44. Eli's Ladder is the single rarest educational video game in existence. The game was developed and published by Simage in 1982, and, like most Atari 2600 titles, the gameplay is simple.
- Air Raid
- Birthday Mania
- Xante Rewritable Cartridges
- Mangia
- X-Man
- Red Sea Crossing
- Superman
- The Music Machine
- Pepsi Invaders
- E.T.
Air Raid is an extremely rare Atari game, by the one-hit-wonder developer Men-A-Vision. Your objective: Save two buildings from the attacks of flying saucers. Sounds very much like something that would be made in the early 80s. And in a theme you will find common in this article… the quality of game says very little about its desirable nature. As o...
In 1984, rich families could actually purchase a personalized video game from developer Personal Games. That game would feature the name of the aging individual of your choice, as well as a slot to write their name right on the cartridge. It is estimated that they only ever sold about 10 of these well wishes out of the 300 cartridges produced. Not ...
In the early 1980s, a small company named Xante had a pretty forward thinking concept: Create writable game cartridges for the Atari game console, and offer a sort of rental service to its customers. Game players could visit a Xante kiosk to pay a small fee to have a new game written to their game cartridge. It all sounds like early Blockbuster Vid...
Are you ready for one of my favorite game descriptions of all time? Via Wikipedia: “The player controls a young boy who must eat plates of pasta placed in front of him by his mother, who will keep feeding him until his stomach explodes on-screen. To prevent this, the player can throw it to a cat, who occasionally appears at the window, and a dog, w...
We tend to keep Retro Dodo (mostly) family friendly, so we won’t go into too much detail about what exactly you might do if you were to play X-Man. But let’s just say that this not so family friendly game was an “adult video game cartridge” that could be purchased via mail order. Game play is said to be a Pacman inspired endeavor that eventually cu...
We have seen that pretty much any video game about the Bible has very low sales, and ultimately becomes a rarity for collectors. So Red Sea Crossing is no different. Did the tale of the parting of the Red Sea by the hands of Moses make for great video game moments? I mean… I doubt it! But if you happen to have one of the “few hundred” copies that w...
Superman was not a particularly rare Atari game… they made and sold a ton of them. But if you happen to have the extremely rare Sears version that had an alternate cover with yellow text (instead of the usual red text), you might be sitting on a fortune. Yes people.. it really comes down to that… you got a label with a different color, it’s value m...
You thought we were done with religious video games? Well so did I… but apparently not. The Music Machine was a video game produced in 1983 and was only available for purchase in christian bookstores! Game play is visually similar to Nintendo’s Game and Watch title “Fire”, where you catch falling objects. Except, in this case, you collect the “Frui...
It is a tale as old as time: Pepsi Vs Coca Cola. But did you know that there was actually a game about it? Yes, Coca Cola actually produced a Space Invaders clone that allowed you to blow Pepsi out of the sky. The joke video game was produced as a promotional item to be handed out at sales conventions. And there were only ever 125 copies produced. ...
You may remember this as one of the worst video games ever made! But did you know that they actually buried thousands of them in the desert after the game’s epic failure? And in 2014, about 900 of them were recovered in an excavation as part of a documentary. You can read about the legendary Atari Video Game Burial here. Some of them were preserved...
- Air Raid (1982) Though not as rare as Red Sea Crossing (of which only two copies are known to still exist), there are only 13 copies of Air Raid known to exist at present.
- Red Sea Crossing (1983) Perhaps the most legendary of all our rare Atari games in existence, it’s thought that there are only two copies of Red Sea Crossing in the world.
- Eli’s Ladder (1982) An early example of an ‘edutainment’ game – that is, educational entertainment software – Eli’s Ladder has players solving mathematical problems during the game.
- Pepsi Invaders (1983) Despite the Pepsi branding in the title, hilariously this next entry in our rare Atari games list was commissioned by The Coca-Cola Company as a promotional item to be given out at their 1983 sales convention.
Apr 23, 2024 · Collecting classic gaming memorabilia is something of a treasure hunt, especially when it comes to these incredibly rare Atari 2600 games.Writer – CHRIS BIRS...
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Sep 4, 2024 · Top Rare Atari 2600 Games 1. VideoLife. Value: $3,500 – $7,000 (Complete in Box) Rarity: Extremely Rare
Sep 18, 2022 · Atari 2600. Red Sea Crossing is among the absolute rarest video games ever to exist. Sold exclusively through the magazine Christianity Today in 1983, only two copies are known to exist, one of which, according to IGN, sold for over $10,000 at auction in 2012. Currently, Pricecharting.com speculates the title to be worth over $1,000, though ...
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Thanks to restricted distribution – that is writer Simage’s solely Atari 2600 sport – Eli’s Ladder is an actual rarity. The cartridge alone fetches costs within the area of $2600, however boxed (with wall chart and stickers) it might command $7000. Unopened, as new copies promote for as a lot as $10,000! Image credit score: Atarimania.
