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And the mania this is stirring up on Craigslist!! Check this one out: Craigslist Post

What is this monogrammed Space Chase that you speak of?

May I inquire as to what magazines the ad's were posted in? Circa what year? Let's say there was some underground Atari or programmer's magazine or Game enthusiast magazine that they got advertised in and we knew it was in say 1983. With today's internet and archives the way they are, can we not track down these mags, find the ad's, and scan them to the site for some kind of verification? Seems like an awful lot of work I know, but it's just another way to the answer..

Again, not really going for the rarity of a game versus another (but good info none the less). I could honestly care less about Air Raid other than now being able to confirm some of it's history. Amazing find, and I hope we find more little nuggets like this over time.

Now this is what I'm talking about! It took me like 5 hours last night to read the Air Raid post. I'm going to have to get back to this Red Sea one. To think that there may still be games out there we don't know exist! Indie games rule. I'll have to read further about to see what the possible hoax may be. Seems legit so far. I also can say I'm about to pack up my things and move to Tulsa, Oklahoma in hopes of finding some Xante carts or the other programmables around at some yard sales or thrift shops (although I'm sure you have members already all over that). I <3 video game history.

First off, lemme say this is obviously my first post here as I'm a new member. No stranger to collecting videogames though, I've been doing it since the late to mid nineties while I worked at a local Funcoland. Although my collection is mostly gone now, and the items I had once thought to be rare have become not-so-rare in this modern age of communication, I am still a collector and classic game enthusiast at heart. So when my friends at gamecasa clued me in on the Air Raid box find, I almost crapped myself and came to take a look. I read all 58 pages, not for the story of some game selling for insane amounts of money, but to learn more about the history of this little known game. That's all it's about for me these days, the history. So on that note, I was happened to breeze past something in the Air Raid Box thread about Red Sea Crossing and Birthday Mania. What is the story behind these two games? I see a picture of Birthday Mania in the rarity list, but I can't even find anything on Red Sea. Whats their story, and how are they connected? Is that the only BM known to exist? I just want to learn more. I have no hopes of ever finding or buying these grails, but I really want to know more. This has definitely resurged my interest in playing old games though. I went on CL and found a working heavy six that came with a NTSC Gashog (R7 or R8, right?), so I'm totally stoked on playing my childhood favorites again! (But who isn't?) Thanks for listening!