Posted on 07/11/2020 4:32:45 PM PDT by Libloather
An anonymous buyer bid a record $114,000 for a rare, unopened copy of the classic video game Super Mario Bros.
The game cartridge was originally released in 1985 for the popular Nintendo Entertainment System console, according to Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which ran Friday’s auction.
The winning bid broke the record for the most ever paid for a video game, according to Heritage. A mint-condition copy of the same game sold for $100,150 in February 2019.
This version of Super Mario Bros. was particularly rare because the box with a cardboard hang tab underneath the plastic, an indication that it was produced after Nintendo started using shrink-wrap to seal the games rather than stickers, the company said in a news release.
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A copy of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! sold for $50,400. and one of the first sealed copies of Super Mario Bros. 3 sold for $38,400. It’s believed to be one of less than 10 copies left in existence, Heritage said.
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How much is Atari’s “ET” game worth? LOL
They did a documentary on this and found them in
the landfill where the unsold copies were disposed of
I understand why collectors like to have the box, but i don’t understand this collector. What is the point if the game will never be seen. If it is never to be opened or seen one might as well have an empty box.
“A hundred more and I’ll have won back all the money that damn Pigeon lost at the table!”
It was amazing what could be done in 8-bit graphics.
I wrote a graphic asm routine that ran on the old VIC20. Used an 8bit 6510, same asm as the 6502.
It was a wire-frame twin engine plane flying low over a dessert highway. Users view was from a point 15ft or so above the tail of the plane. It looked pretty good considering the weak hardware. I was proud of how the spinning props looked.
Not sure what the guy I wrote it for ever did with it.
Also made a program to use the VIC modem to decode RTTY... It was fun reading the shortwave news services and watching for keywords and having it sound an alarm if the keywords came up.
Short answer: FOMO
Jeez, I’d of sold him a a gold copy of the legend of zelda for 10k
I still have my Nintendo system and I have that game too along with Super Mario Bros, and Duck Hunt, oh man I remember duck hunt..but they would never allow in this day and age the duck hunt gun to be used
Eh. The XBox 360 and One have games which use a variation of the light gun, compatible with the Kinect device. They’re around.
I grew up playing NES. My cousins had that system, and we had the SNES. Then N64, Dreamcast, PlayStation, XBOX, and the sequels to the latter two.
It all began with Intelevision, though. That was my Dad’s. In television and DOS. They were my first video games.
There were some cool, thinky Intelevision games.
I have them all, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, XBOX 360, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4..and Im obviously gonna upgrade to the new XBOX console and PS5 when they come out..
Are you talking about the Star Wars light gun? I have kinect but its really eh, stupid, its always disconnecting itself
oh yeah I have the Nintendo 3DS too
I’m sure it’s been x-rayed to make sure all pieces are there, as part of the documentation and provenance..
He’ll wait a couple years, and put it up for auction again, netting thousands more as it ages.
Let me see I owned an Atari 400, Atari 800XL, Atari 1040ST..
“He’ll wait a couple years, and put it up for auction again, netting thousands more as it ages.”
Yep. Just store it away in a video game humidor in an environmentally friendly, temperature-controlled game cellar with an emergency generator backup.
I had an Atari 1200XL, complete with the tape drive, joystick, and several program cartridges. It was in cherry condition when I got it. I used it for word processing and writing BASIC programs. I have no idea where it ended up.
“your dad’s”
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Man, that makes me feel old. I played PONG when it first came out.
Ohhhh love Intellivision! Utopia and Snafu!
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