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

The rare game Super Mario Bros. was sold 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 remained untouched until the seller found it earlier this year.

“It has been at the bottom of my office desk all the time since the day I bought it,” said the unnamed salesman in the statement. “I never thought about that at all.”

It is also one of the first copies of the game to be packaged in plastic paper, instead of having an adhesive seal, according to the auction company.

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 was sold.

“Since the production window for this copy and similar ones was so short, finding another copy of this same production performed under similar conditions would be the same as looking for a single drop of water in an ocean,” said Valarie McLeckie, director video games from Heritage Auctions. “Never say never, but there is a good chance that it cannot be done.”

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It was not the only video game that made a lot of money at the 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 in the same year.

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

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

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