Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5m at auction

X Pac Heat said:
Is this the one that has Warios AI Ghost in it?
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No that's the rumored beta cartridge. There's several beta cartridges that have showed up on auction sites over the years and all of them sold for much less than this fucking thing. No clue if Wario is in any of them though, as the ROMS of those rarely ever get actually uploaded to the internet.
 
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(he's not, wario was just an after effect for a promotional video that retards like swankybox couldn't identify. that was the joke)
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( I know. People somehow didn't recognize it was from a famous mocap wario presentation.)
 
Epic Fedora Man said:
I wish I had a million dollars so I could have a sealed Mario64 cartridge next to my funko pop and amiibo collection.
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Lol I’m currently selling a pair of amiibos in an auction, and the current bid is +3 times what I paid for them years ago.

If these people were smart they would just wait for Nintendo to reprint these McDonalds toys when the next game in the series comes out.
 
Grey Donovan said:
Lol I’m currently selling a pair of amiibos in an auction, and the current bid is +3 times what I paid for them years ago.
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Hope you have better luck than me. Half the time I auction off anything video game related these days that might have any value, a bunch of spics and negroes end up putting a ridiculous auto bid on the thing, get it up to like 5x what it should be worth, and then don't bother paying cause they were just hoping everyone would tap out way sooner.
 
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ProblematicUser420 said:
Hope you have better luck than me. Half the time I auction off anything video game related these days that might have any value, a bunch of spics and negroes end up putting a ridiculous auto bid on the thing, get it up to like 5x what it should be worth, and then don't bother paying cause they were just hoping everyone would tap out way sooner.
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It's usually that or automated scalper-stocker bid bots doing their thing. For normal bidders those kinds of scenarios are unwinnable but it's funny and scary as hell when the price rapidly shoots up over 100 in the span of a few seconds due to 2 different ones targeting the same listing.
 
Nick Gars said:
$1.5 million, that could of been used to go to the production of an actually good game, for a box to one of the most overrated games of all time.

Why must the most insanely frivolous always be the ones with an overabundance of money?
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I agree that the price is completely absurd. But just because Mario 64 was too difficult for you doesn't mean you need to disparage it. Nigger.

I wonder how much I can trick someone into paying for my sealed copies of Paper Mario and Star Fox.
 
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tehpope said:
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.
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Also, that box is damaged on the bottom right facing corner. I could see this going for 3 or 4 digits. Not a million.
 
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Haramburger said:
often they weren't actually sealed, or just had a basic shrinkwrap from some stores. The only things to look out for with NES are really the manuals, the styrofoam block inside, and the black cartridge sleeve(and whether it was all black or had a red Nintendo logo diagonal across it).
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yeah this

Nintendo didn't have any kind of distinct shrinkwrap that guaranteed your game was factory sealed until the Gamecube and DS. Stores like Target would often re-shrinkwrap games people returned and then sell them as new, because video games weren't treated like sacred artifacts, just like every other product that's not consumable, and nobody cares. They did have a policy where you couldn't return video games, but plenty of angry moms would pressure the employees and they usually gave in, and it was practically an unwritten rule that you could get away with it no problem on the day after Christmas. That's why it's silly to hold sealed copies of cardboard box-era Nintendo games in high regard.
 
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Pissmaster said:
yeah this

Nintendo didn't have any kind of distinct shrinkwrap that guaranteed your game was factory sealed until the Gamecube and DS. Stores like Target would often re-shrinkwrap games people returned and then sell them as new, because video games weren't treated like sacred artifacts, just like every other product that's not consumable, and nobody cares. They did have a policy where you couldn't return video games, but plenty of angry moms would pressure the employees and they usually gave in, and it was practically an unwritten rule that you could get away with it no problem on the day after Christmas. That's why it's silly to hold sealed copies of cardboard box-era Nintendo games in high regard.
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The type of shrinkwrap is probably kinda distinct if you handle enough of them, there may or may not be any actual way to really tell for sure but I'd bet the factory shrinkwrap felt and was applied differently than what the machines at Target/Walmart/Ect would have felt and looked like. The people at those places tended to be a bit sloppier and less precise than a robot as well.

The people grading these carts/boxes/ect are probably autistic enough to notice things like this.
 
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I see everyone else already pointed this out, but this is just another example of money laundering that has fuck all to do with the product being sold.

The person who bought it couldn't care less if it was a Nintendo game or a famous painting. It's only "news" because some people still haven't caught up to the scam and the headline "Mario sold for a million" works as fantastic clickbait to get all the normies in the comment section to pontificate how much they paid for THEIR copy of Mario 64 as if that was ever the point.
 
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Pissmaster said:
yeah this

Nintendo didn't have any kind of distinct shrinkwrap that guaranteed your game was factory sealed until the Gamecube and DS. Stores like Target would often re-shrinkwrap games people returned and then sell them as new, because video games weren't treated like sacred artifacts, just like every other product that's not consumable, and nobody cares. They did have a policy where you couldn't return video games, but plenty of angry moms would pressure the employees and they usually gave in, and it was practically an unwritten rule that you could get away with it no problem on the day after Christmas. That's why it's silly to hold sealed copies of cardboard box-era Nintendo games in high regard.
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Fun fact, nintendo actually had a peculiar way of sealing the boxes that most stores wouldn't bother copying, called the H-seam. Basically, there was an additional seam spread across the back of the box that connected the two on the side, and gave it a distinctive look.

/autism
 
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