“ Block ads on – This website” switch off the toggle to turn it from blue to gray.Click the AdBlock Plus icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Refresh the page or click the button below to continue.Under “ Pause on this site” click “ Always”.Click the AdBlock icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.sold for $660,000 USD at auction.Īdblock Adblock Plus Adblocker Ultimate Ghostery uBlock Origin Others The previous record-breaker was a sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda from 1987 that sold last month at auction for $870,000 USD. The game, playable on the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console, currently has 3,000 shares available at $50 USD per share, with a market cap of $150,000 USD. The game was originally purchased by Rally in April 2020 for $140,000 USD. The Times explains that Rally is not an auction site, but rather a platform that buys physical collectibles and allows the public to invest in shares of them. “Lauded as the ‘Holy Grail’ of vintage video game collectibles, #85MARIO is also one of only 14 cardboard “Hangtab” box variants, the earliest mass-produced version of the asset,” the site says. Read more in todays New York Times (cc: /segsfw6Jw9Īccording to the site, the factory-sealed #85MARIO bears a 9.8 out of 10, A+ grade by the Wata video game scale - a near perfect score. …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. Punks, X-Men, Declarations, and some news… Rob Petrozzo, one of the founders of the collectibles site, Rally, confirmed the news to The New York Times on Friday, saying that an anonymous buyer who is “making big bets in the video game space” has snapped up the pristinely-preserved collectable.

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