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Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer, producer and director at Nintendo, speaks during the opening ceremony of “Super Nintendo World” on March 18, 2021.
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There may be a fortune hidden in that dusty box of old video game cartridges.
An original 1985 edition of “Super Mario Bros.” for Nintendo’s entertainment system sold for a whopping $ 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 known copy that has been professionally rated for auction,” the company said in a statement. The previous sale of video game discs was about $ 114,000, set last July.
The log cartridge was purchased as a Christmas present 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 were not made public.
“[The video game] I stayed at the bottom of my office counter all this time from the day I bought it, “the salesman told the Heritage Auctions version.” I never thought about it. “