Super Mario Bros. breaks all records, sold a copy for $ 114.000

    Super Mario Bros. breaks all records, sold a copy for $ 114.000

    Super Mario Bros. continues to break all records despite being available on the market for three and a half decades. As reported by the videogames collector and journalist Chris Kohler, Heritage Auctions, a well-known American auction house based in Dallas, has recently sold for the price of $ 114.000 a brand new copy of an American version of Super Mario Bros. from 1985, beating the previous record, set last year by the same title made in Nintendo, of $ 100.150. Becoming the most expensive game ever sold to date.



    A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold at auction for $ 114.000, setting a new record for the sale of a single game. You bet the owners of the $ 100.000 one, which is an earlier print, are feeling great today.

    But what makes this particular version so coveted? The edition was rated 9,4 out of 10 by Heritage Auctions, which means that the game in question is in almost perfect condition, with everything sealed in the original packaging. But that's not all, since it is a particular version of the retail edition available only in the United States, which has undergone several iterations over time. Below is a clear explanation reported by the well-known auction house Heritage Auctions, which makes this unit so rare.

    Cardboard hangtabs were originally used in the US test market copies for black box games, before plastic was used to seal each game. As Nintendo began establishing their own company in the United States, their packaging was updated, almost continuously. Oddly enough, the addition of the plastic wrap came before the box cutting nut was modified to remove the cardboard backing. This made the functionality of the cardboard holder completely useless, as it was under the plastic seal.



    There are four sub-variants of the cardboard box (this particular copy of Super Mario Bros. is the “3 Code” variant), produced over the course of a year. Each sub-variant of the black box, produced in that time frame, had a production period of a few months; really negligible compared to the overall production time of the title.


    In short, a hardcover copy of any old Nintendo Entertainment System game brings a certain “vintage” vibe to its successors.

    A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold at auction for $ 114,000, which is a new record for the sale of a single game. Bet the owners of the $ 100,000 one, which is an earlier printing, feel great today. pic.twitter.com/lVdcla8d19


    - Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) July 10, 2020

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