Auctioned 1986 Mario Bros. cartridge for $ 660,000

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Dallas. An unopened cartridge for Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. video game, which was purchased in 1986 and then forgotten in a desk drawer for decades, was sold on Friday for $ 660,000, auction house Heritage Auctions reported. Dallas.

Heritage said the video game was purchased as a Christmas present, but ended up in a desk drawer, where it remained sealed in a plastic wrapper and with the tongue to hang intact until it was found a few months ago.

“Since the production of this copy and others like it was very low, finding another copy of this same batch in similar conditions would be like finding a needle in a barn,” he said Valarie McLeckie, Heritage Auctions video game specialist.

Heritage say it is the highest quality specimen that has been auctioned. Its sale price far exceeded the $ 114,000 recorded for another unopened copy that was produced in 1987 and auctioned by Heritage last summer.

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