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A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 just sold for more than 11,545,170

This $156,000-worth Super Mario Bros. 3 has broken the previous record for the highest price paid for a video game at an auction. That’s 11,545,170 approx, in case you were wondering.

By: HT TECH
Updated on: Aug 21 2022, 00:11 IST
Bidding for the 1990 Super Mario Bros. 3 opened on Friday at $62,000 on Heritage Auctions and the numbers peaked after 20 bidders began vying for the game. (Heritage Auctions)

A rare, sealed, copy of the 1990 NES game, Super Mario Bros. 3 has broken all previous records for the highest price paid for a video game at an auction ever. The game was sold for $156,000 at an auction. That’s 11,545,170 approx, in case you were wondering.

The older record of the most expensive video game ever auctioned was held by a 1985 copy of Super Mario Bros. that sold for $114,000 ( 8,436,855 approx) in July this year.

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Also Read: Sealed copy of Super Mario Bros just sold for 85.72 lakhs

Bidding for the 1990 Super Mario Bros. 3 opened on Friday at $62,000 on Heritage Auctions and the numbers peaked after 20 bidders began vying for the game.

The game was in mint condition and and the copy was also sealed.  (Heritage Auctions)
The game was in mint condition and and the copy was also sealed.  (Heritage Auctions)

Heritage Auctions, the auction house that organised the auction and sold the game, said in a release that “While the condition of the game is remarkable, what makes this copy even more singular is the layout of the packaging itself: Exceedingly rare are sealed copies with the word ‘Bros.’ formatted to the left, covering one of Mario's signature white gloves. Collectors have spent years looking for such a version — the earliest in the Super Mario Bros. 3 production history – and usually come up empty-handed”. 

The auction house also sold a sealed copy of the “Red Version” of 1998’s Pokemon for the Nintendo Gameboy for $84,000 ( 6,214,702 approx). This is the highest that’s ever been paid for a Pokemon title.

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