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auction came along.Īll that said, congratulations to the anonymous person who just spent $114,000 for a rare piece of video game history. That title held the record the highest price paid for a video game until that 2019 Super Mario Bros. Only 116 copies of that game were ever made. Before rare versions of a game almost every gamer on the planet probably has or has had at one point became the hot commodity, collectors sought out rare games - titles that many people didn’t know existed or, if they did, they knew how elusive the game was.įor example, a rare Nintendo game called Nintendo World Championships made headlines in 2014 after selling for $100,088 in an auction on eBay. One interesting observation from the sale of this game is just how much the video game collectors market has changed in recent years. Considering the grade of this copy, we can only imagine the kind of competitive frenzy it will spark amongst bidders. with a cardboard hangtab sold for a record-breaking $40,200. A Wata 8.0 A Sealed copy of Super Mario Bros.
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From what we witnessed in our May Signature Auction just a few months ago, Super Mario Bros. Heritage Auctions goes on to share that this isn't the first rare cardboard hangtab video game box it has encountered.īlack box aficionados are often captivated by the appeal of the elusive sealed with hangtab variants. In short, a cardboard hangtab copy of any early Nintendo Entertainment System game brings a certain air of "vintage" unrivaled by its successors. Each sub-variant of the cardboard hangtab black box, produced within that timeframe, had a production period of just a few months a drop in the bucket compared to the title's overall production run. being the "3 Code" variant) that were produced within the span of one year. There are four sub-variants of the plastic sealed cardboard hangtab box (this particular copy of Super Mario Bros. This rendered the functionality of the cardboard hangtab completely useless, since it was under the plastic seal. Strangely, the addition of the plastic wrap came before the box cutting die was altered to remove the cardboard hangtab. As Nintendo began to further establish their company in the U.S., their packaging was updated almost continuously. test market copies of black box games, back before plastic was used to seal each game. Cardboard hangtabs were originally used on the U.S. What's the deal with cardboard hangtabs? one may, understandably, wonder. This particular copy has a rare feature added to its retail packaging that could really only excite the most hardcore gamer: cardboard hangtabs. So, why did this one go for $14,000 more?ĭuring its reign, there have been many different retail versions of the same exact game.
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a copy of the same in-box Super Mario Bros. The previous highest price paid for a video game was $100,000 just last year for. has sold more than 40 million copies throughout its long history. It still looks exactly like it did back when you could buy it from retail stores in the 1980s. According to the Heritage Auctions listing, it’s been professionally graded by experts as a 9.4 out of 10, meaning the unopened box is in near-perfect shape. has never been taken out of the box - the cartridge has never been played with. But there’s a reason this particular copy went for as much as it did. That kind of money might make you want to rummage through those old boxes in your closet to find your worn-out old copy of the game.
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Just to give you a sense of how much money that is, gamers, you could purchase around 440 Nintendo Switch consoles (if you could find them right now, of course) at retail price, including tax. will take the title of the highest price ever paid on record for a video game. Tweet may have been deletedĪt $114,000, this copy of Super Marios Bros. The winner of the auction is currently unknown. The winning bid was first noticed by video game journalist Chris Kohler and highlighted by The Verge. The game, originally released in 1985, was sold on Friday in an auction held by major international auction house Heritage Auctions. for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. And they spent that money on Super Mario Bros. Throw in some in-game microtransaction purchases and you could be looking at a whole lot more.īut, how much is too much? Say, $114,000? The average price of a new release for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Sony Playstation is around $60. Video games are getting pretty expensive.