The game "Super Mario Bros. 3" was sold at auction in price of 156.000 dollars. It has slightly different packaging than Super Mario 3 and that gave it value.
On Friday morning, Heritage Auctions announced that sold a rare, sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 for the original Nintendo Entertainment System at a record price of $156.000. Twenty bidders battled to see who would pay the most for a video game.
But why was this copy of the game sold so expensively? According to Heritage, the sealed copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 with this package is rare. Most players recognize the cover of the game, with Mario flying, with a raccoon hat and the title of the game in the center above it. But the first box art production looked a little different.
What makes this box art so special is that the word "Bros." appears on the left side of the box, covering Mario's glove. Only that !!! This difference cost $ 156.000. See a photo of the unique $ 3 Super Mario Bros. 156.000:
Is it time, if you have the game registered in any drawer, to check the cover version?
But there is something else that makes it a unique innovative copy. Video game rating company Wata Games has given this copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 rating 9,2 A +. This means that the sealed copy was almost perfect. By comparison, Heritage points out that another sealed copy of this version of Super Mario Bros. 3 sold in July for $ 38.400. The difference? Rated only 9.0 A.
Today's sale broke the previous record held by a sealed copy of the original Super Mario Bros. which had sold for $114.000 just last July. In Heritage's press release, the auction house seemed surprised to break this record two times within the same time.
Heritage shared the details of another notable video game auction today. A sealed original copy of the Nintendo Gameboy 1998 Pokémon Red Version sold for $ 84.000, the highest price ever paid for a Pokémon game.
Here's hoping we see those sealed, very expensive videosgames, to make the new owners happy.