This Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. Just Sold For $114000 - Nintendo Life

Remember when a super rare sticker sealed copy of Super Mario Bros.

Well, another copy of the exact same game (in a similar condition) has now broken this record - going for the sum of $114,000 USD (this roughly equates to £90,000).

That makes this particular copy the most expensive video game ever sold.

Apart from its sealed state and 9.4 out of 10 grade, it's all to do with the cardboard hangtabs.

Cardboard hangtabs were originally used on the US test market copies of black box games, back before plastic was used to seal each game.

There are four sub-variants of the plastic sealed cardboard hangtab box (this particular copy of Super Mario Bros. being the "3 Code" variant) that were produced within the span of one year.

In short, a cardboard hangtab copy of any early Nintendo Entertainment System game brings a certain air of "vintage" unrivaled by its successors?

Part of the interest is also the fact it's a copy of Super Mario Bros.

If you would like to revisit the original Super Mario Bros?

release, but don't fancy forking out 100k or don't have access to an original copy of the game, the good news it's playable on Nintendo's Switch Online subscription service.

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Other than being in a museum for many people to see I see no purpose for those sealed games!

If I had the money I'd buy this game and play it, I don't see the value in a game thats never been played!

The money could’ve been used for, y’know, charity or something but okay.

Spending 100k on a video game you’ll never play just seems like a waste of money.

I know people are saying it belongs in a museum and the money could have gone to charity.

But video game museums are more about showing the actually hardware and the cartridges not a sealed box in a case.

This is more of a status symbol among video game collectors like many things that are in near untouched conditions from nearly 40 years ago considering it is in a cardboard box.

You can buy things and also donate money.

Wish I had money to throw away.

I wish you all the best.

Jeez, how many auctions of these sealed Super Mario Bros.

They should at least report an auction of a sealed Super Mario Bros.

Charity would've been a better use for the money sure but at the end of the day it's still that person's money to spend, and if he thinks buying a sealed copy of SMB for that much is worth it, then who are we to judge, y'know.

Personally I would never spend this kind of money on a game, not only because I simply don't have that kind of money, but as you said, there's better things to do with the money.

Although I'd be lying if I didn't spend a fairly large amount of money on game merchandise and whatnot over the years.

I guess that’s something I didn’t see, they can do wahetever they want with the money!

Waste of money.

Whats the point in keeping it sealed.

What a sealed game can do

It's all relative to the amount of money you have, it sounds a lot to me, but if the person buying is rich then not so much

I recall the first copy was sold to people within the auction scene, meaning nothing more than somone made a $100k advertising stunt, and this is probably the same thing

WATA doesn't sound like they know much of anything about games and is at this point a worse sham than VGA

I never understood the point in paying a fortune for a sealed copy of a game, and I say this as a video game collector

I just always go for a used copy in great condition, at least then I am not paying too much and I can actually enjoy playing the game

To me being able to play the games has always been the entire appeal of collecting them

This is terrible because now there will be more of those stupid comic book speculators jumping into the video game market

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