Mint Condition Copy of ’Super Mario 64’ Sells for $1.5 Million
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An unopened copy of the legendary Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64 sold for a record-breaking $1.5 million at auction over the weekend.
Although Super Mario 64 is the best-selling Nintendo 64 game of all time, with more than 11 million copies sold, the auctioned cartridge was one of less than five sealed copies that has been graded by professionals as a 9.8, A++ Wata rating, which is an out-of-10 grading system done by a company called Wata Games.
“It seems impossible to overstate the importance of this title, not only to the history of Mario and Nintendo, but to video games as a whole," Heritage Auctions Video Games Specialist Valarie McLeckie said in a press release. “This copy is a true prize for any serious collector."
The idea of paying that much for Super Mario 64 still shocked many video game enthusiasts and historians.
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