Super Mario Bros. 3 has become the world’s most expensive video game
SEALED PRODUCT SOLD AT AUCTION FOR $156,000
Heritage Auctions sold a rare copy of the NES game, which released in the US in 1990, for $156,000 at auction.
It broke the record recently set in July 2020, when a duplicate of 1985’s unique Super Mario Bros. sold for $114,000.
“While the state of the game is exceptional, what makes this duplicate significantly more particular is simply the design of the bundling: Exceedingly uncommon are fixed duplicates with the word ‘Brothers.’ organized to one side, covering one of Mario’s unmistakable white gloves,” Heritage Auctions said in a public statement.
“Authorities have gone through years searching for such a rendition — the most punctual in the Super Mario Bros. 3 creation history – and for the most part come up flat broke.”
A fixed duplicate of 1998’s Pokémon Red for GameBoy additionally sold for $84,000 at a similar sale, establishing a precedent for a Pokémon title.
An uncommon Nintendo PlayStation model was sold for $360,000 in March – a record cost for a few gaming memorabilia.
The Nintendo PlayStation model is supposed to be one of 200 units made for Sony’s bombed organization with Nintendo in the mid-1990s, which was its initial significant move into computer games and in the long run, prompted it entering the market all alone.
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