After being forgotten in a desk drawer for almost 35 years, a sealed copy of the Nintendo video game Super Mario Bros. sold at auction for a whopping $660,000. It's the most ever paid for a video game, according to a news release from Heritage Auctions.
It's the most ever paid for a video game, according to a news release from Heritage Auctions, which ran the sale.Super Mario dies for a livingThe Dallas-based auction company said the NES cartridge was purchased as a Christmas gift in 1986, and was untouched until the seller found it earlier this year."It stayed in the bottom of my office desk this whole time since the day I bought it," said the unidentified seller in the release."I never thought anything about it.
"Since the production window for this copy and others like it was so short, finding another copy from this same production run in similar condition would be akin to looking for single drop of water in an ocean," said Valarie McLeckie, video games director for Heritage Auctions."Never say never, but there's a good chance it can't be done.
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