Representative Image of the Atari 2600 game Red Sea Crossing with its cartridge, coloring book, and audiocassette, showcasing Christian themes (AI Generated)
Red Sea Crossing was released for the Atari 2600 in 1983 by Inspirational Video Concepts. Heritage states that its only marketing was an advertisement in the October 7, 1983 issue of Christianity Today. A copy discovered at a Cincinnati rummage sale in 2007 became the subject of discussion among Atari collectors, who worked to identify its developer and establish whether it was an authentic commercial release. A surviving advertisement found in Christianity Today in 2011 provided important evidence that the game had been marketed in 1983.
The advertisement offered the game by mail order and helped establish that the obscure cartridge had genuinely been released. Heritage describes the title as one of the rarest commercially released console games ever produced. Unlike many commercial console games of the period, it was not distributed through ordinary retail channels. Heritage describes it as a mail-order release with a Christian theme. The gameplay centres on Moses crossing the Red Sea. The player must guide him between the parted waters while avoiding hazards including seaweed, giant clams and the Egyptian army. The game’s limited distribution has contributed to its rarity. The game’s existence was not widely documented for many years. However, estimates of how many cartridges were made vary among historical accounts, so the precise size of the original production run remains difficult to establish.
A rare Christian-themed Atari 2600 game that surfaced at a garage sale in 2007 has sold at auction for $6,562.50. Red Sea Crossing, released through mail order in 1983, was offered by Heritage Auctions with an accompanying audiocassette. The cartridge was sold at Heritage Auctions’ June 12–13, 2026 Video Games Signature Auction, where it was listed as lot 28003.
The sale marked the first time the cassette itself had been presented at auction, according to the auction house. Steve Schustack created the game and takes its inspiration from the biblical story of Moses parting the Red Sea. Players guide Moses between walls of water while avoiding obstacles and the pursuing Egyptian army.