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Copy of Super Mario 64 Sold for Over $1.5 Million, Most Ever Paid for a Video Game

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

martyb writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 14 2021, @08:04AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 14 2021, @08:04AM (#1156135)

    Who wants communism?

    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)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday July 16 2021, @01:14AM (#1156735) Journal

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @04:53AM (#1156805)

      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.