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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.
- World of Warcraft: Collector’s Edition
- Exertainment Mountain Bike Rally & Speed Racer
- King of Fighters 2000
- NBA Elite 11
- Red Sea Crossing
- Blockbuster World Video Game Championship II
- Kizuna Encounter
- Tetris
- Nintendo Competition Cartridges
- Birthday Mania
“Eh? But loads of people play World of Warcraft,” we hear you say. Yes they do, but often a game’s rarity isn’t based on how many copies were sold, but how many copies of a specific version were sold: in this case, the limited Collector’s Edition. This special version launched with the game back in 2004 and cost $80 at the time. Included in the box...
The most dedicated collectors are the ones who insist on owning every game on a system, even if that game is just a compilation consisting of titles they already own. When this happens, you sometimes get situations where two games cost a lot more together than they do on their own. The best example of this is Exertainment Mountain Bike Rally and Sp...
When your console sells poorly, its games become rarer by default. That was the case with the Neo-Geo AES, which launched in 1990 and sold less than a million units worldwide. By the time the millennium approached, the system was clearly dead. However, SNK continued to release games for the system in limited numbers: verylimited numbers, that is. T...
When your rival is booting your backside on a yearly basis, a real shake-up is needed. That’s the decision EA came to when – struggling to compete with the NBA 2Kgames – it decided to scrap its NBA Live series after the dismal NBA Live 10 and completely revamp everything. NBA Elite 11 promised a completely reworked control system designed to greatl...
In 1983, programmer Steve Schustack created Red Sea Crossing, an Atari2600 game about Moses crossing the Red Sea. The clue’s in the name, you see. The game wasn’t promoted in games magazines: instead, it was aimed at religious publications. For a while Red Sea Crossing was believed to be a hoax that didn’t actually exist, because nobody had seen a ...
In 1995, video rental store Blockbuster held a competition that took place throughout its various stores in North America. Players could choose to take part in either a SNES challenge – in which they had to reach a certain score in Donkey Kong Country – or a Genesis (Mega Drive) challenge, which instead featured NBA Jam Tournament Edition and Judge...
Sometimes a game is only rare in certain regions: nowhere is that better demonstrated than with Kizuna Encounter, a fighting game released for the Neo-Geo. We’ve already established that the Neo-Geo was a rare enough system in itself, with less than a million sold worldwide. However, the twist is that the vast majority of those console sales were i...
The story of Tetris’s licensing issues is so convoluted that it would take a whole other article to explain in detail. In short, Sega believed it had the rights to publish a home console version of Tetris when in reality only Nintendodid. Sega was forced to pull its version of Tetris and destroy all copies of the game right before it went on sale, ...
In the Infamous Nintendo movie, The Wizard, a young boy travels across America with his brother so he can take part in a Nintendo video game competition. Nintendo actually held similar real-life contests in the US for a while, each using special cartridges. These carts were usually given to finalists, none of whom probably realised at the time that...
In 1984, programmer Anthony Tokar decided to have a crack at making an Atari 2600 game. He advertised it in his local newspaper, the Newark Star Ledger, explaining the game’s unique gimmick: each copy was personalised. Each copy of Birthday Mania would be programmed by Tokar to show the recipient’s name on the title screen while the Happy Birthday ...
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Gamma Attack was obviously not an officially licensed Atari 2600 release with a full production. In fact, Gamma Attack seems more like a small run homebrew effort. It helps Gammation’s status that they produced hardware accessories for the 2600 as well, but it still could be considered an indie/homebrew hardware outfit since they only did small batch production and sold via phone and mail ...
Dec 9, 2017 · Considered the Holy Grail of Atari 2600 games, ... making it a highly sought-after game for collectors. Gamma Attack – Atari 2600. Price Range: Unknown (estimated $20 000 – $ 50 000) ...
Aug 20, 2024 · Air Raid Atari 2600, $33,433.30 Air Raid is the Atari 2600’s Holy Grail, despite many saying that Gamma Attack is. Sadly, no one knows the true value of Gamma Attack as the one copy that went to auction never sold because its owner set a $500,000 price target.
Mar 12, 2015 · The game fetched $10,400 in a GameGavel sale and was referred to by the seller as "the Holy Grail of Atari Games." ... which makes this game a true collector’s item. ... Gamma Attack (Atari 2600 ...
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Jan 28, 2012 · Demon Attack. Eli's Ladder. Gamma-Attack. Gauntlet. Karate. Mangia. No Escape! Pepsi Invaders. Solar Storm. Video Life In your experience, is one of these games (or another not on this list) considered "THE" Holy Grail of the 2600? Or are there so many that fall into this category so that it can't be narrowed down to 1-3 titles?
