An almost perfect copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES it was sold for $ 660,000 at auction. In what turned out to be a 13-bid contest, $ 550,000 went to the original owner of the game. The copy was one of the first packaged versions of the games you could buy in the United States (Super Mario Bros. eventually had 11 different case variants, according to WATA Games).
Heritage Auctions, the company that oversaw the sale, said Ars Technica dates back to the end of 1986. It was purchased as a Christmas present and has remained locked in a desk drawer for nearly four decades. “I never thought about it,” said the seller, who asked to remain anonymous at the auction house.
The $ 660,000, this copy of Super Mario Bros. sold is crazy when you consider the Nintendo PlayStation, a unique prototype that represents a unique piece of gaming history, sold for $ 360,000 at an auction last year. Most recently, someone paid $ 156,000 to purchase an original copy of the Super Mario Bros. 3. This makes you wonder how much the owner would have come out with if he simultaneously tried to profit from the NFT craze in some way.