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Shigeru Miyamoto, a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, speaks during the opening ceremony of “Super Nintendo World” on March 18, 2021.
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A fortune might be hiding in that dusty box of old video game cartridges.
An original 1985 edition of “Super Mario Bros.” for the Nintendo Entertainment System sold for $ 660,000 in Dallas on Friday, destroying the world record for a single video game sale, according to Heritage Auctions, which handled the transaction.
The unopened Nintendo video game is “the best copy known to have been professionally classified for auction,” the company said in a statement. The previous sale of video games was $ 114,000, set in July last year.
The recording cartridge was purchased as a Christmas gift in 1986, then placed in a drawer and forgotten for 35 years, before being found earlier this year.
The names of the seller and the buyer have not been published.
“[The video game] I’ve been in the back of my office all this time since I bought it, ”the seller said in a statement from Heritage Auctions. “I never thought of that.”