Most expensive game ever! Unopened copy of vintage Super Mario Bros sells for Rs 85 lakh
How much are you willing to pay for a game? There are people who save for months to get their hands on the new edition of a game which could cost anywhere between Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000. Yes, big amounts are willingly handed over to ensure top-class entertainment and fun - even for some games considered 'antique' by today's standards.
How much are you willing to pay for a game? There are people who save for months to get their hands on the new edition of a game which could cost anywhere between Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000. Yes, big amounts are willingly handed over to ensure top-class entertainment and fun - even for some games considered 'antique' by today's standards. Just to prove it, there is someone out there who just purchased a copy of vintage Super Mario Bros for a whopping Rs 85 lakh. Yes, you read it right.
An unopened copy of a vintage Super Mario Bros video game has been sold for $114,000 (~Rs 85.72 lakh) in an auction that underscored the enduring popularity of entertainment created decades ago.
This edition of the game was released in 1985 for Nintendo’s NES console and was bought by a bidder during an auction conducted Friday by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. The $114,000 price eclipsed Heritage Auctions’ previous record amount for a video game, which was a $100,150 bid made early last year for an unopened copy of the same game.
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The Super Mario Bros. copy that sold for a new record was part of a collection of video games from the 1980s and 1990s that sold to various buyers for nearly $700,000, which was well above Heritage Auction’s initial target of about $500,000.
Other games auctioned on the same day included “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!” The Title was released in 1987 and was based on the former heavyweight boxing champion. It sold for $50,400.
The whopping amount of Super Mario copy was paid largely because it was still sealed even after all these years. The auctioneers reportedly noted that such unopened copies of old and rare video games only remain in the world in 'single digits' which makes it quite a collector's items to lap up.
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