The previous record-breaker was a sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda from 1987 that sold last month at auction for $870,000 USD. The game, playable on the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console, currently has 3,000 shares available at $50 USD per share, with a market cap of $150,000 USD. There is also an option to generate a random map. game from 1986 sells for 660,000 ApGMT This photo provided by Heritage Auctions, shows an unopened copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros., purchased in 1986 and then forgotten about in a desk drawer for decades that has sold for 660,000 at auction. You can play continuously or select a level out of 32 any time you want. The game was originally purchased by Rally in April 2020 for $140,000 USD. Use arrows or W-A-S-D keys to move Mario, to jump higher hold the button. video game cartridge, setting a world record. The Times explains that Rally is not an auction site, but rather a platform that buys physical collectibles and allows the public to invest in shares of them. On Friday, collectibles site Rally announced that someone paid 2 million for an unopened 1985 Super Mario Bros. “Lauded as the ‘Holy Grail’ of vintage video game collectibles, #85MARIO is also one of only 14 cardboard “Hangtab” box variants, the earliest mass-produced version of the asset,” the site says. Read more in todays New York Times (cc: /segsfw6Jw9Īccording to the site, the factory-sealed #85MARIO bears a 9.8 out of 10, A+ grade by the Wata video game scale - a near perfect score. The sale set a new world record for a graded video game, according to Heritage Auctions, which. …w/ the $2,000,000 sale of our 1985 Super Mario Bros., marking the HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID for a video game of any title. SuperMarioBrosAuction80557 This photo provided by Heritage Auctions, shows an unopened copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros., purchased in 1986 and then forgotten about in a desk drawer for. An unopened 1985 copy of the iconic Super Mario Bros. Punks, X-Men, Declarations, and some news… Rob Petrozzo, one of the founders of the collectibles site, Rally, confirmed the news to The New York Times on Friday, saying that an anonymous buyer who is “making big bets in the video game space” has snapped up the pristinely-preserved collectable.