A copy of 'Super Mario 64' sold for over $1.5 million, the most ever paid for a video game:
A copy of "Super Mario 64" has sold for more than $1.5 million, smashing the record for the most expensive sale ever of a video game at auction.
The sealed copy of the classic Nintendo 64 video game fetched $1.56 million including fees on Sunday.
Dallas-based auction house Heritage said it was the first time a game had gone for more than $1 million. The sale topped a record set just two days ago, when another Nintendo game, "The Legend of Zelda," was sold for $870,000, the auctioneers said.
[...] "After the record-breaking sale of the first game in the Zelda series on Friday, the possibility of surpassing $1 million on a single video game seemed like a goal that would need to wait for another auction," Heritage Auctions video games specialist Valarie McLeckie said in a statement.
"We were shocked to see that it turned out to be in the same one! We are proud to have been a part of this historic event," she added.
Previously:
"Legend of Zelda" Auction Sets Bar for the Most Expensive Video Game at $870,000
Unopened Super Mario Bros. Game from 1986 Sells for $660,000
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 12 2021, @09:14PM (5 children)
...where the money's made up and its value doesn't matter!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 13 2021, @03:05AM (4 children)
That real communism sounds awesome and it is sure to arive here any day now.
Just ignore all the other fake versions of communism that have been tried so far.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 13 2021, @05:45PM (3 children)
Who wants communism? It can't work, because it doesn't scale past Dunbar's Number. No, what I want is Nordic-style social democracy, with a heavy focus on sustainable power, water, and housing. We have the technology and have for a while now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 14 2021, @08:04AM (2 children)
And yet you keep repeating their silly "late stage capitalism" talking point.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 16 2021, @01:14AM (1 child)
It's not wrong, and just because capitalism in the late stage is a failure doesn't mean communism is the solution.
Where are you pulling this weird false dichotomy out of? Capitalism just needs proper regulation and a renewable base to succeed, that's all.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @04:53AM
Fair enough. But in my experience the overwhelming majority of those who use the phrase are communist LARPers who have never had to live a day of their lives under that system.
I will admit to having a bias on the topic as I have direct family and close friends who have experienced communism firsthand. Through either living in the USSR or escaping from the cultural revolution in China.