Sealed Copy of 'Super Mario' Bros. 2' Sells for $88,550 in Estate Sale
By: Dylan Brehm
After taking care of an estate sale for a recently deceased Indiana woman, it was reported a sealed copy of the 1988 video game 'Super Mario Bros. 2' was sold for a staggering $88,550. Harritt Group Inc. said workers searching for items to list found a box of Nintendo games in the back of a walk-in closet.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
"At first glance, it was a comforting wave of classic Nintendo nostalgia. All the classics were there, Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt , Qix, and even an NES console. So we did what any children of the 1990's would do: we fired up the console and tested the open games. It was a great day." "At second glance, it was something else entirely. The seemingly ordinary collection included an extraordinary unopened copy of Super Mario Bros. 2."
Skyrocket in Value
Back in July, a sealed copy of the 1996 game Super Mario 64 set a new world record after being sold at an auction for $1.56 million to an anonymous buyer. Heritage auctions said they received 16 bids leading up to and during the live auction on Sunday for a mostly pristine copy of the 3-D Super Mario game. The best-selling game sold for around $60 in 1996. The top bid ended up being 1.3 million which added a buyer's premium of 20 percent to the gavel price bringing the total up to $1.56 million.
Smashing The Previous Record
The auction came just two days after the previous record had been set by a copy of 'The Legend of Zelda'. This still sealed, rare version of the game, which had been purchased in 1987 sold via auction for $870,000. This rare version was one of the units made for the limited Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It sold on July 9, 2021.
External Links
A Copy of 'Super Mario 64' sold for over $1.5 million, the most ever paid for a video game
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/super-mario-auction-video-game-record-scli-intl/index.html
Rare copy of 'The Legend of Zelda' sells for 870k at auction to set new world record
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10007546-rare-copy-of-the-legend-of-zelda-sells-for-870k-at-auction-to-set-new-world-record
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