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Red Sea Crossing

Red Sea Crossing

Jun 1, 1983AdventureAtari 2600

Red Sea Crossing — frequently asked questions

Is Red Sea Crossing on Steam?
No. Red Sea Crossing is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Red Sea Crossing on?
Red Sea Crossing is available on Atari 2600.
When did Red Sea Crossing release?
Red Sea Crossing was first released on June 1, 1983.

About Red Sea Crossing

Red Sea Crossing was created by an independent programmer in 1983 and was discovered by the seller at a garage sale in 2007. "It turns out this game was not even known to exist until I found it," the seller wrote in the auction's description. "An AtariAge member used the internet to track down the programmer and I spoke with him and got some more information. He said from what he could remember he advertised it in a local religious magazine but couldn't remember the name. In August of 2011 another AtariAge member found the original ad laying to rest that the game was indeed released in 1983."

Summary via IGDB.

Red Sea Crossing on Wikipedia

Red Sea Crossing is a Christian side-scrolling video game for the Atari 2600. Released for mail order in 1983 only, it remained unknown until a copy was discovered at a garage sale in 2007. Very few copies have been found as of 2018, making it one of the rarest published console games of the 1980s.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms
Atari 2600
Developer
Steve Stack
Publisher
Steve Stack
Game modes
Single player
Themes
Action

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari 2600 · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-06

Loose
$7,031
Complete
—
Sealed
—
Region
NA
Released
1983
Authenticity
High
Not in Atari 50 — other compilations and plug-and-plays are not tracked hereHigh counterfeit risk
Atari 2600 prices, all games & how to spot a fake

A real 1983 Bible game that vanished for 24 years, and the best-documented counterfeit target on the 2600.

Steve Schustack programmed Red Sea Crossing and published it himself as Inspirational Video Concepts, with no involvement from Atari. It is a Christian side-scrolling game sold only by mail order in 1983, and it is the first published console game based on an event in the Bible.

Nobody knew it existed until a copy turned up at a garage sale in 2007. Very few copies have surfaced since, which makes it one of the rarest published console games of the 1980s. It is not a homebrew: it was a commercial release that surfaced in tiny numbers.

How it was made

Programmed by Steve Schustack (Steve Stack, Inc.) and published under the Inspirational Video Concepts name. It was released in October 1983 and sold only by mail order.

Cartridge & preservation record

Program size 4 KB, measured from the preserved dump.

Catalogue number as recorded for the physical release.

Before you buy

Highest risk. This is the title with a documented fraud: in 2015 a Hozer Video reproduction sold on eBay as an original, and AtariAge members caught it because it sat in an Atari shell, which is not the shell the game was produced in, and because the seller had torn off the label's bottom-right corner, where Hozer prints its logo. The ROM is public and a buyer has made reproductions, so copies are easy to make. Genuine copies reportedly have EPROM boards and straight-cut paper labels (one forum source), so the usual repro tells do not separate real from fake. Compare the shell against AtariAge's scans, walk away from any missing bottom-right label corner, and do not buy without documented provenance.

Red Sea Crossing screenshots

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