A Rare Sealed Copy of Super Mario Bros. Auctioned for $100,150; Makes World Record
Super Mario, is one of the most acclaimed video games of all times and one of the most popular games among the children of 80s and 90s. The love of people for this amazing game can be measured through the huge amount for which an old pristine sealed copy of Super Mario was auctioned.
An original mint copy of the Super Mario Bros., for NES, was sold for $100,150 at an auction, making a world record for being the first ever graded video game to be sold for a six-digit amount. The game is professionally graded and certified one and was auctioned by the Heritage Auctions. Wata Games has certified the game, and for its condition, it gave it 9.5 out of 10 and a “Seal Rating” of A++.
“Beyond the artistic and historical significance of this game is its supreme state of preservation,” says Kenneth Thrower, co-founder and chief grader of Wata Games.
The game was bought by a group of collectors including Jim Halperin, founder and co-chairman of Heritage Auction, Zac Gieg, owner of Just Press Play Video Games, Rich Lecce, who is a video game collector, and the owner of Robert B. Lecce Numismatist Inc.
This copy of the video game was one of those rare copies that were sealed with a Nintendo sticker on the top of the box, whether other regular video games are shrink-wrapped.
As there are so many versions of Super Mario Bros., and all of the video consoles had at least one of their own Super Mario version released in the past thirty years, this mint copy of Mario is a bit different from all of those versions of Super Mario and is one of the rare of the versions of it.
This preserved copy of Super Mario Bros. was one of the early released copies of the same, published in Los Angeles and New York, during the testing of the video game, in 1985. This copy of video game was kept in a flawless condition and the seal of quality won it the huge value. This game cartridge is one of the eleven versions that were shipped between 1985 to 1994, in a black box, having slightly different features from one another.
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