“I would suspect sealed cardboard hangtab copies number in the single digits,” McLeckie said. Still, the fact that this copy of the game features a cardboard hangtab inside that shrink-wrap, “speaks to a level of vintage” that puts it in a rarefied class. That also means it’s not among the very first shrink-wrapped copies of the game, which date back to mid-1986. That makes it “slightly more attainable to find” than the very earliest test-market editions of the game, from late 1985 and early 1986, which were only sealed with a small circular Nintendo sticker (the earlier $100,000 sale came from that earliest batch). Heritage Auctions video game specialist and consignment director Valarie McLeckie, who helped shepherd this record sale, tells Ars that this “3-code variant” of Super Mario Bros. ![]() That collection contained over 11,000 games, including over 8,300 in their original box. ![]() At the time, the seller behind that $100,000 edition told Ars that it was “probably the wrong move, long-term, to sell.”įor context, the Guinness World Records certified the world's largest video game collection sold at auction for $750,000 in 2014. Further Reading $100K Mario seller: “It’s probably the wrong move, long term, to sell”The online auction surpassed the old record set by a $100,000 sale of a "sticker-sealed" Super Mario Bros.
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