A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold at auction for $114,000, which is a new record for the sale of a single video game. Wager the owners of the $100,000 one, which is an earlier printing, feel terrific today. pic.twitter.com/lVdcla8d19
Initially launched in 1985, the game was produced the Nintendo Entertainment System; the auctioned game was never ever secured of its box, and its still in the precise condition that it was when it first hit retailers in the 80s. The “9.4” grading at the top of package validates its near-perfect condition. The auction was held at Heritage Auctions, won by an unknown purchaser. According to Heritage Auctions, this edition of the game commanded such a rate due to its uncommon cardboard hangtab: the very first batch of housings tested in the U.S. market “prior to plastic was utilized to seal each game,” so just a few exist today as they “had a production duration of just a couple of months.”
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A rare copy of Super Mario Bros. has offered for a whopping $114,000 USD, breaking the record for the single most expensive computer game ever sold. Another copy of the exact same game was auctioned for $100,150 USD last year in February.
— Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) July 10, 2020
