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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 13 2021, @09:52PM
It becomes less confusing when you think about what the money is being spent on. Like all of those platitudes of cutting corporate taxes will open up all of this capital for investing in capital project expenditures and employee development. Then you find out that basically all of it was used to buy back stock. (The best part is now that there is talk of raising it only partially back to where it was, now there are cries of "OMG, if you do that, companies won't be able to do all of those capital project expenditures and employee development they were TOTALLY planning on doing this time!")