Video game auction record high
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| Nintendo’Super Mario Bros.’ game cartridge sold at the highest price ever in video game auctions [헤리티지 옥션 홈페이지] |
[헤럴드경제=뉴스24팀] The unopened Nintendo Super Mario game cartridge, 35 years after it was sold, was auctioned off at a whopping 660,000 dollars (740 million won), the highest price ever in a video game auction.
According to CNN Business on the 4th (local time), Heritage Auction, which held this auction, explained that the game cartridge was purchased by the seller as a Christmas gift in 1986, but it had been kept intact until it was discovered earlier this year.
“It’s been under my office desk from the day I bought it,” the seller said.
The game cartridge’s condition was rated as the best with a rating of 9.6/A+ from Watta Games.
This product is one of the plastic shrink wrap products sold in 1986, and since then, Nintendo changed its packaging method from early 1987, adding to its rarity as it was not sold relatively much.
The CNN Business reported that even before this product, there were video games that were often sold at high prices at auctions.
The’Mega Man’ cartridge produced in 1987 sold for $144,000 (about 160 million won), and the’Mike Tyson’s Punch-out!!’ made in the same year sold for $102,000 There is a bar.
In addition,’Super Mario Bros.’ 1985 production products cost 114,000 dollars (about 130 million won) in July last year, and’Super Mario Bros. 3’cost 156,000 dollars (about 170 million won) in November of the same year The winning bid was recorded.