What is unrefined 'Super Mario Brothers' bidding for over 11 million yen is extremely rare?

Heritage Auctions , an American auction house, revealed that unopened goods of " Super Mario Bros. " released as a game for family computers in 1985 were bidding for 100 thousand dollars (about 11 million yen) I will. Heritage Auctions also writes "Game software bidding for the first 6-digit price in history".

Copy of Super Mario Bros. Video Game Sets World-Record Price of $ 100,150
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Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. Sells For A Record-Breaking $ 100,150
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In 2017, the unopened item of the same Super Mario Bros. was awarded at an auction of 30,000 dollars (about 3.3 million yen) and it became a hot topic, but what was reported in February 2019 is "100 thousand dollars" It is information that Super Mario Bros. was bidding for at least three times the price. There seems to be a small but decisive difference between what was awarded at $ 30,000 in 2017 and what was awarded at about 100,000 dollars in 2019.

Nintendo was doing test marketing in New York and Los Angeles to check whether NES , an oversea version of Family Computer, could be sold in the USA between 1985 and 1986. After that, game software for NES and NES will be sold nationwide in the whole country, but during this test marketing period, in order to stop the plastic film wrapping the package, a black round foil stamper with a Nintendo logo It was used. Also, while doing test marketing, Nintendo seems to have sold game software such as " Duck Hunt " and " Gyroset " as a set with NES itself, but Super Mario Bros. was sold separately completely sold That's right. Therefore, the unopened article Super Mario Brothers with 'Necktado logo filled black circle foil sticker' seems to have tremendous value.

It is like an unopened item Super Mario Brothers with this "Nickname 's logo - filled black circular stamped sticker" won by Heritage Auctions for over 100,000 dollars this time. Also, the package was evaluated by " WataGames " which handles game goods for collectors and fairly evaluates product status etc. "How well they are stored correctly and correctly" was evaluated.

WataGames chairman Dennis Khan said, "Personally, I always have an unopened item sticked with a (black circular foil stamp with Nintendo's logo) sticker, the most among the historical game related goods I should have said that it will be one of valuable things. " In addition, Kahn said that although there are multiple unopened items of Super Mario Bros., unopened items with a sticker with a logo with Nintendo have only seen things that were bidding on.

The unopened Super Mario Brothers with a sticker with Nintendo's logo, which is fully conceived as possibly existing only in this world, is James L. Halperrin, founder of Heritage Auctions, a coin dealer and game collector Mr. Ricci Lecce, and Zach Gieg, owner of the video game store, said they purchased jointly and it is announced that the trading of the century was done in Heritage Auctions' press release.

According to WataGames 'President Khan, an anonymous person who occasionally supported WataGames' activities with volunteers was holding the unopened Super Mario Brothers with a sticker with Nintendo's logo. This person seems to have hardly planned to sell the unopened Super Mario Brothers in the first place, "For years, he said that he would never sell under six figures," Khan said . Also, besides Mr. Halperin who made a successful bid, there is a group that is interested in the unopened Super Mario Bros. and "a very solid five digit figure (about 50,000 dollars or more)" He seems to have proposed a successful bid.

Super Mario Brothers, whose cumulative sales volume worldwide exceeds 40 million, may be an easy-to-find game where unopened package versions etc. are found more than any other game, but what was bidding this time is worth more than imagination It is not an exaggeration to say that it was found. Kahn said, "I have always said that video games will follow the way like cartoons, cars, coins as a collection, and it will be time for video games to sell for $ 1 million I think that's a problem. "