Recently a sealed copy of the classic game "Super Mario Bros." was sold at auction for $660. Last year, the same title, also sealed, had won the Heritage Auctions auction house record for the most expensive game ever sold.
The 1985 video game cartridge released for the NES console (popularly known as Nintendinho) was sold at a Heritage Auctions auction last Friday. The same game had previously been sold early last year for $114. Now, this figure has been surpassed by the value of US$660 thousand.
Heitage video game expert Valarie McLeckie says:
"Since the production window for this copy and others like it was so short, finding another copy of this same production running under similar conditions would be like looking for a single drop of water in an ocean."
According to Heritage Auctions, this was the best known and professionally classified copy for auction. The copy was rated at 9,6 on the WATA scale, a signature often used to assess the value of comics. For more details on how the assessment is done, visit the official WataGames website here.
About Super Mario Bros.
Originally released in 1985, Super Mario Bros. was developed and published by Nintendo. The title was the successor to the 1983 game Mario Bros. The game was the first in the Super Mario series and was released for the NES console (popularly known as Nintendinho).
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