Sealed Super Mario Bros Sells for $3M Setting New Record for a Video Game

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vunderba•about 6 hours ago

From the article:

> the iconic game whose popularity established Nintendo’s dominance in home console gaming in the 1980s, sold for $3 million on Friday afternoon in the first session of Heritage Auctions’ June 12–13 Video Games Signature® Auction, hammering the previous $2 million record set in a 2021 private sale.

I wouldn’t trust any auction run by Heritage. They’re reasonably known for turning video games into speculative assets rather than collectibles, and they’ve helped drive up prices for actual fans who just love the games.

Further they’ve been embroiled in scandals alongside Wata Games, with allegations of price manipulation.

Good article about this:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/report-alleges-auct...

thatguy0900•about 1 hour ago

Investing has ruined basically every collectible hobby at this point, to the point wizards themselves thought it was acceptable to try to sell 1000$ packs of cardboard cards. Noone cares about the people who just want game peices to play a game

AdmiralAsshat•about 3 hours ago

Considering that Super Mario Bros came with the console, this feels like nothing more than a flex. Or money laundering.

DANmode•about 1 hour ago

Do you have a copy?

AdmiralAsshat•21 minutes ago

Of the cartridge, yes. As do about 58 million other people.

Not sealed in box, no. But usually a product going for a price like this is predicated on rarity, not just historical value. That's why Detective Comics #27, Action Comics #1, Amazing Fantasy #15, etc. command a pretty penny. Those comics didn't have circulation in the millions back in the day...

Sealed Super Mario Bros Sells for $3M Setting New Record for a Video Game

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