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

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The Dallas-based auction company said the NES cartridge was purchased as a Christmas gift in 1986 and was not touched until the seller found it earlier this year.

“It remained at the bottom of my office counter all this time since the day I bought it,” the unidentified seller said in the statement. “I never thought about it.”

According to the auction company, it is also one of the first copies of the game to be wrapped instead of having an adhesive stamp.

This particular version of the game 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 copy and others like it was so short, finding another copy of this same production in similar conditions would be similar to looking for a single drop of water in an ocean,” Valarie said. McLeckie, director of video games at Heritage Auctions. “Never say never, but there are a lot of possibilities that can’t be done.”

It wasn’t the only video game that made money at 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 !! done the same year.

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

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

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