The rare Super Mario Bros. game. it sells for a record $ 660,000

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The Dallas auction company said the NES cartridge was purchased as a Christmas gift in 1986 and was untouched until the seller found it earlier this year.

“It’s been in the back of my office all this time since I bought it,” the unidentified salesman said in a statement. “I never thought of that.”

It is also one of the oldest copies of the game to be packaged instead of having a sticker seal, according to the auction company.

This special version of the game first went on sale in 1986, but Nintendo changed the packaging in early 1987, so only a relatively small number were sold.

“Because the production window for this and other specimens like this was so short, finding another specimen from the same production series under similar conditions would be like searching for a single drop of water in an ocean,” said Valarie McLeckie. , video game director for Heritage Auctions. “He never says, but chances are he can’t do it.”

It wasn’t the only video game that brought big money to the auction. A 1987 Mega Man cartridge sold for $ 144,000 and a buyer paid $ 102,000 for a copy of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out !! made in the same year.

The $ 660,000 price includes the buyer’s premium and destroys the previous record for a copy of the Super Mario Bros. game.

A copy of the game from 1985 sold for $ 114,000 last July, which at the time was the highest ever paid for a video game, according to Heritage, which also handled the sale.
A sealed version of Super Mario Bros. 3 broke that record in November, selling for $ 156,000, the company said.

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