Dimapur, August 8 (EMN): A rare sealed copy of the Super Mario Bros. NES game has sold for $2 million, breaking the record for the most expensive video game ever sold.
Rally, a platform for buying and selling collectible assets, announced the record-breaking sale on Twitter after the company managed to sell the rare 1985 'Super Mario Bros.' NES game for $2 million. According to a report from the New York Times, Rally had originally purchased the cartridge for only $140,000 in April 2020.
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— Rally (@OnRallyRd) August 6, 2021
????A NEW WORLD RECORD on Rally????
...w/ the $2,000,000 sale of our 1985 Super Mario Bros., marking the HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID for a video game of any title.
Read more in todays New York Times (cc: @nytimes): https://t.co/mJzEcVMXuQ pic.twitter.com/segsfw6Jw9
The copy reportedly had a prior offer of $300,000 rejected by investors before being bought by an anonymous buyer for $2 million.
The sale broke the previous record set by another game from the Mario franchise just a month ago when a copy of Super Mario 64 was auctioned for $1.56 million.
The 1985 'Super Mario Bros.' NES game copy reportedly had a 9.8 A+ rating on the Wata Scale. The Wata Scale is a grading and certification system for the video game collectible market. This means that the copy was in an “exceptional” condition.
Mint copies of classic games are selling like hotcakes right now. Last July, a copy of Super Mario Bros. was sold for $114,000 at an auction. In November, a copy of broke the record when it was auctioned for $156,000. The record didn't stand long as in April, another copy of was sold for $660,000. The record was broken again in July after a copy of was auctioned for $870,000.