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This is only the fourth version of Super Mario Bros. Not only is this the finest plastic-sealed copy with a perforated cardboard hangtab we’ve ever offered of any black box title, it is also the oldest sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. that sold today so special, according to Heritage Auctions: Here is what makes the version of Super Mario Bros. 3 sold for $156,000, making it the most expensive video game ever sold until today. In November, however, a different title set a new record: a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. has held the record: a mint copy of the US version of the game sold for $114,000 in July 2020 (which broke the record of $100,150 set by another copy of Super Mario Bros. This isn’t the first time Super Mario Bros. sold for an incredible $660,000 at Heritage Auctions on Friday, more than quadrupling the previous record for the most expensive game ever. 3 broke that record in November, selling for $156,000, the company said.A sealed copy of the NES classic Super Mario Bros. game.Ī 1985 copy of the game sold for $114,000 last July, which at the time, was the most ever paid for a video game, according to Heritage, which also handled that sale.Ī sealed variant of Super Mario Bros. The $660,000 price includes the buyer's premium and shatters the previous record for a copy of Super Mario Bros. A 1987 Mega Man cartridge sold for $144,000 and a buyer paid $102,000 for a copy of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! made the same year. It wasn't the only video game that brought in big money at the auction. "Never say never, but there's a good chance it can't be done." "Since the production window for this copy and others like it was so short, finding another copy from this same production run in similar condition would be akin to looking for single drop of water in an ocean," said Valarie McLeckie, video games director for Heritage Auctions.

This particular version of the game first went on sale in 1986, but Nintendo changed the packaging in early 1987, so only a relatively small number were sold. It is also one of the earliest copies of the game to be shrink wrapped instead of having a sticker seal, according to the auction company. The unopened game was professionally graded by WataGames and had a score of 9.6/A+, according to the news release, which called it "the finest copy known to have been professionally graded for auction." "It stayed in the bottom of my office desk this whole time since the day I bought it," said the unidentified seller in the release. The Dallas-based auction company said the NES cartridge was purchased as a Christmas gift in 1986, and was untouched until the seller found it earlier this year.

It's the most ever paid for a video game, according to a news release from Heritage Auctions, which ran the sale. sold at auction on Friday for a whopping US$660,000. After being forgotten in a desk drawer for almost 35 years, a sealed copy of the Nintendo video game Super Mario Bros.