Unique Feature: Designed for college campuses
Did you know?Īlthough Price Charting says copies of this game typically go for about $860, one copy reportedly sold for more than $10,000. Instead, gamers had to call to order the cartridge from the programmer (which cost just $34.95). Interestingly, the game’s creator apparently couldn’t get the title on any store shelves. According to someone who spoke with him, the game was advertised in “a local religious magazine.” Based on the ad (and the game’s title), we know the game was based on the Biblical story of Moses crossing the Red Sea. Through some internet detective work, the programmer was tracked down and asked about the game.
Years later, in 2007, someone found one of the few copies made at a garage sale. In those years, indie releases really didn’t stand a chance against gaming giants like Atari, so the game went unnoticed. Red Sea Crossing was made by an independent programmer in the early 1980s.
Unique Feature: Made by an independent programmer The history is complicated, but it’s believed that a 15-year-old named Andrew Levine ultimately won the Defend Atlantis competition, earning him $10,000. It’s not known how many people received a copy of Atlantis II, but we do know that the top four players from that select group were picked for the competition’s final round which took place in Bermuda. Other game enthusiasts estimate 100 copies exist, but everyone agrees that the game is rare. It’s not clear how many copies were made, but some reports say there could be less than 25 in the whole world. Basically, they needed a harder version so they could pick a winner. The updated version featured harder gameplay because there were several players who maxed out the scoring system in the original game. More specifically, the game was a tournament version designed for the Defend Atlantis competition, a gaming contest held by game company Imagic in 1982. Unique Feature: Potentially less than 25 copies were madeĪs the name suggests, Atlantis II was a sequel. Despite their age, these games have high price tags, typically because they’re very rare. Video games have evolved way beyond the basic graphics and controls of William’s invention, but the most expensive titles out there actually come from older consoles like the Atari 2600. William continued to improve his tech, making a path for the video games we have today. Users could play virtual tennis by turning a knob and pressing a button, making a tennis ball graphic move around a display. With the hope of getting visitors more involved, William began working on an interactive video system.Īfter some clever engineering, William’s video game debuted in 1958. William got the groundbreaking idea when he noticed the public’s bored reaction to exhibits at a yearly science convention.
That was the start of his work in the electronics field, but it wouldn’t be until the late ‘50s that William finally made an interactive video system. Later, in 1941, William joined a lab at MIT that developed display screens for radar systems. After graduating from college in the early 1930s, William became a graduate student at Cornell University where he worked on electronics. The first video game was invented by William Higinbotham.
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