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posted by chromas on Monday July 12 2021, @01:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the stonks dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 14 2021, @12:31AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 14 2021, @12:31AM (#1156032) Journal

    You don't seem to have understood a damn thing I said. It's amazing. You'd think all that money and all those brains and those financial advisors of yours could buy you a working cerebral cortex. Too bad no amount of money will ever, ever buy your soul out of the flame it's kindling for itself though...

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  • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 14 2021, @02:03AM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Wednesday July 14 2021, @02:03AM (#1156064)

    > You don't seem to have understood a damn thing I said
    who cares. I'm not here to understand the ways of a pigeon shitting on the board. I'm here to laugh at the pigeon shitting on the board. surprise, I don't even bother reading half the mindless drivel you write before replying.

    >buy your soul out of the flame it's kindling
    case in point.