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A sealed copy of 1990’s Super Mario Bros. 3 bought for $156,000 at auction on Friday, unseating the earlier record holder, a 1985 copy of Super Mario Bros. that had bought for $114,000 in July. Bidding opened Friday at over $62,000, and the numbers skyrocketed after 20 bidders started vying for the sport.
Heritage Auctions, the auction home that bought the sport, mentioned in a launch that the outstanding situation of the sport, the packaging format, and the added rarity of being sealed, made this a sizzling merchandise for collectors.
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“We couldn’t be more pleased about breaking the world record for the second time in the same year,” Valarie McLeckie, Heritage Auctions’ director of video video games mentioned in a press release Friday. “That said, it’s no surprise that another Mario game, which so many of us grew up with, would set the new bar.”
Heritage Auctions’ Friday occasion additionally reached new heights when it bought a sealed copy of the “Red Version” of 1998’s Pokemon for Nintendo’s Gameboy for $84,000. It’s the best worth ever paid for a Pokemon title.
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