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Collectors Universe Expands Into Video Game Authentication & Grading with Acquisition of Wata Games | Business Wire
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Collectors Universe, a leading provider of value-added authentication and grading services, announces it is expanding into the collectible video game industry with the acquisition of Wata Games.

Wata Games is the trusted pioneer in the video game collectibles industry. As the foremost video game grading service, Wata elevated the collectible video game market with its focus on accuracy and objectivity and enabled the industry to grow quickly. The company’s grading process ensures complete transparency and integrity with detailed grading on a scale of 1-10. As the gold standard in video game authentication, games graded by Wata regularly sell for record prices. In addition to the $1.56 million Super Mario 64 sale, other Wata-graded games that have set records include a 1987 early production copy of The Legend of Zelda, which sold for $870,000 as well as a copy of Super Mario Bros. for NES, which sold for $660,000.

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Super Mario 64 sells for $1.5 million at auction - Polygon
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Last week, a game cartridge of The Legend of Zelda sold for $870,000, the highest price ever paid for a video game at auction. But The Legend of Zelda only held that record for a few days before it was figuratively butt-stomped into second place. Over the weekend, a sealed copy of Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 million at Heritage Auctions.

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“The price jump on this stuff is so sudden, and on such specific items, that I do not believe it happened naturally,” Cifaldi tweeted Sunday. “It all feels really suspect imo.”

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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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Une cartouche Super Mario 64 vendue 1,56 million de dollars aux enchères, nouveau record
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Ce dimache, une cartouche scellée du mythique « Super Mario » pour console Nintendo 64 a été vendue pour 1,56 million de dollars, un nouveau record pour un jeu vidéo selon la maison d’enchères américaine Heritage Auctions.

« C’est le premier jeu à jamais avoir été vendu aux enchères pour plus d’un million de dollars », a expliqué à l’AFP Eric Bradley, un porte-parole de la société basée à Dallas, au Texas (Etats-Unis).

Cette cartouche de « Super Mario 64 » date de 1996 et utilise pour la première fois la 3D.

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