An unopened cartridge for Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. video game, which was acquired in 1986 and then forgotten in a desk drawer for decades, was sold for $ 660,000 on Friday, 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.
“Because 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,” said video game specialist Valarie McLeckie by Heritage Auctions.
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.