Unopened Super Mario Bros. sells at auction for $114,000.

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An anonymous buyer bid a record $114,000 for a rare, unopened copy of the classic video game Super Mario Bros.
The game cartridge was originally released in 1985 for the popular Nintendo Entertainment System console, according to Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which ran Friday's auction.

The winning bid broke the record for the most ever paid for a video game, according to Heritage.

 

[NIGGER ASS PEE POOPY RAPE]

surely nobody would be enough of a dick to counterfeit that cardboard hang tab and shrink-wrap

 

[tehpope]

I really hate these types of sales. All it does is drive up the prices online. Joe Sixpack and his wife, who run an ebay shop, see this and mark up loose cart copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 to $99.99 because some sperg bought a sealed SMB1 for an absurd price. No wait, a better example would be that same couple marking up a loose cart copy of NFL 95 for the Genesis to $99.99.

Thank god for emulation and flash carts. Cycle Accurate emulators and MiSTer are a godsend to people who want to play retro games as close to original hardware as possible.

 

[That Chris Guy]

I really hate these types of sales. All it does is drive up the prices online. Joe Sixpack and his wife, who run an ebay shop, see this and mark up loose cart copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 to $99.99 because some sperg bought a sealed SMB1 for an absurd price. No wait, a better example would be that same couple marking up a loose cart copy of NFL 95 for the Genesis to $99.99.

Thank god for emulation and flash carts. Cycle Accurate emulators and MiSTer are a godsend to people who want to play retro games as close as possible.

I wish I could get a look at the guy's face when he comes home one day to find the commemorative frame he designed for it opened along with his limited-edition unboxed SNES and sees the game is being played by his six-year old.

 

[God]

money laundering be like

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

I wish I could get a look at the guy's face when he comes home one day to find the commemorative frame he designed for it opened along with his limited-edition unboxed SNES and sees the game is being played by his six-year old.

That would be some look, considering it’s an NES game!

I wonder if some hipster nerd douchebag told the guy he could play it, and anything else he wants much cheaper if he bought a Raspberry Pi.

 

[tehpope]

I wish I could get a look at the guy's face when he comes home one day to find the commemorative frame he designed for it opened along with his limited-edition unboxed SNES and sees the game is being played by his six-year old.

I think it'd go a little something like this:

 

[That Chris Guy]

That would be some look, considering it’s an NES game!

I wonder if some hipster nerd douchebag told the guy he could play it, and anything else he wants much cheaper if he bought a Raspberry Pi.

I was going to say, "Well if you like Mario that much, I've got a landfill to sell you!", but last I heard, they excavated those E.T. cartridges and tried selling them.

 

[Red Hood]

A game that was packed in with almost every NES.

A game you could get for like 10 cents at Funcoland back in the day.

All because it has some plastic wrapped around the box. We sure value things oddly at times.

 

[Psychic Espeon]

God bless Emulators.

 

[BOONES]

That's all it takes? Cripe I could counterfeit that was my own home tools. Not that i would. But i could.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

A game that was packed in with almost every NES.

A game you could get for like 10 cents at Funcoland back in the day.

All because it has some plastic wrapped around the box. We sure value things oddly at times.

The fact that it was packed in with most systems sold is the reason a sealed boxed copy is rare, since the pack-in cart didn’t have a box.

 

[Red Hood]

The fact that it was packed in with most systems sold is the reason a sealed boxed copy is rare, since the pack-in cart didn’t have a box.

I did not think about that. My first console was a Sega Genesis so I'm used to pack-ins coming with a nice case with NOT FOR RESALE on the cover.

 

[tehpope]

and one of the first sealed copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 sold for $38,400. It's believed to be one of less than 10 copies left in existence, Heritage said.

I'm dobutful that's true. There's collectors out there from the 80s and 90s that had connections to stores or distributers and bought out whole boxes of sealed copies of NES games. There was this one dude from a few years back who posted on a picture Atari or nintendo age that he had a box of 12 6 sealed copies of Bandai Track and Field (Stadium Events). These guys exist, but they collect for themselves, not for clout.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

I did not think about that. My first console was a Sega Genesis so I'm used to pack-ins coming with a nice case with NOT FOR RESALE on the cover.

SEGA having cases as standard for all carts until the late Genesis era was a delightful anomaly for as long as it lasted. The artwork on some Japanese games is insane, and actually drives up the price of some lousy games on the collector market.

 

[Pomniman]

Movieblob's wet dream.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Movieblob's wet dream.

He’s probably planning a heist as we speak.

 

[Ilikeoreos]

The fact that it was packed in with most systems sold is the reason a sealed boxed copy is rare, since the pack-in cart didn’t have a box.

Also, the multi-cart version that came with Duck Hunt seemed to be alot more common than the stand-alone version. Out of all the people I knew who had NES's back in the early 90s I think only one of them had the stand-alone version.

 

[Pissmaster]

Also, the multi-cart version that came with Duck Hunt seemed to be alot more common than the stand-alone version. Out of all the people I knew who had NES's back in the early 90s I think only one of them had the stand-alone version.

Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt came with the Action Set, which was by far the most commonly sold package. I didn't even know there was a standalone SMB until years and years later.

I also got a cart-only copy of it for $1 on clearance at a used bookstore. They did sell those for a while, for anyone who bought one of the other NES sets. There was one that came with a ROB and Gyromite, and another that came with the Four Score (adapter for four controllers) and Super Spike V-Ball/Nintendo World Cup. (there was also a multicart with SMB/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet)

This is gay and lame. I don't even think the extremely rare All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. ever even went for that much, and that game was a giveaway from a Japanese radio show in 1986.

The fact that it was packed in with most systems sold is the reason a sealed boxed copy is rare, since the pack-in cart didn’t have a box.

That's the case for Super Mario World, but SMB was never a pack-in alone in any region. The pack-in versions were always on multicarts, and those were never sold separately new.

edit:

and one of the first sealed copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 sold for $38,400. It's believed to be one of less than 10 copies left in existence, Heritage said.

that's one of the most common NES games, and i have a complete (albeit open) copy myself. nigga fuck you

 

[I can't imagine]

That's the case for Super Mario World, but SMB was never a pack-in alone in any region. The pack-in versions were always on multicarts, and those were never sold separately new.

It wasn't super common, among all the different versions they produced, but they did make one SKU that had SMB by itself included.