The unopened Super Mario Bros. will be awarded for over 12 million yen, the highest bid ever for a single game software



An unopened item of '

Super Mario Bros. ' that appeared for family computers in 1985 was sold at an Internet auction for $114,000 (about 12 million yen). The highest bid ever for a single game software.

Super Mario Bros.-Wata 9.4 A+ Sealed [Hangtab, 3 Code, | Lot #93028 | Heritage Auctions
https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/super-mario-bros-wata-94-a-sealed-hangtab-3-code-mid-production-nes-nintendo-1985-usa/a/ 7231-93028.s

A Sealed Copy of Super Mario Bros. Just Sold for a World-Record Setting $114,000-IGN
https://www.ign.com/articles/a-sealed-copy-of-super-mario-bros-just-sold-for-a-world-record-setting-114000

An unopened Super Mario Bros. sold for $114,000 on Heritage Auctions , an American auction house. This time the auction was an initial production version of the Super Mario Bros. sold in the US in 1985. The package handles game goods for collectors and impartially evaluates the product condition, etc. According to WataGames , the product condition is '9.4' out of 10 and the package quality is 'A+' (7 ranks from C to A++. Second).



The unprecedented Super Mario Bros. was the most expensive 'single game software' ever. The unopened Super Mario Bros. game, which had been the highest bid game ever, was awarded in February 2019. According to the WataGames index, the product status is '9.4' and the package quality is 'A++'. was. The reason why this software was sold at an extremely high price is the 'black circular foil stamp sticker with the Nintendo logo' attached to the package.

What is the unopened 'Super Mario Bros.' that was sold for over 11 million yen? -GIGAZINE



From 1985 to 1986, Nintendo was testing in New York and Los Angeles to see if it could sell NES , the overseas version of the family computer in the United States. After that, NES and game software for NES will be sold throughout the United States, but Nintendo has a black circular foil sticker with a logo to hold the plastic film wrapping the game software package at the time of this test sale I was using Also, Nintendo seems to have sold NES main body and game software such as 'Duck Hunt' and 'gyro set' as a set at the time of test sale, but only Super Mario Bros seems to have been sold separately from the main body is. The Super Mario Bros. with the 'black circular foil sticker with the Nintendo logo' was only produced for a few months, so unopened items with stickers are of tremendous value.

Below is a picture of the Super Mario Bros. that was sold for $114,000 this time. You can also see the 'black circular foil stamp sticker with the Nintendo logo' on the bottom right of the package.



In addition, multiple game consoles are sold at auction at Heritage Auctions, and the phantom game console 'Nintendo PlayStation' jointly developed by Nintendo and Sony was sold for 300,000 dollars (about 32 million yen).

Nintendo and Sony's phantom game machine ``Nintendo PlayStation'' finally bid at auction-GIGAZINE



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