“ stayed in the bottom of my office desk this whole time since the day I bought it,” the seller said in the Heritage Auctions release. This photo provided by Heritage Auctions, shows an unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros., purchased in 1986. The names of the seller and the buyer were not released. The record-setting cartridge was purchased as a Christmas gift in 1986 then placed in a drawer and forgotten for 35 years, before it was found earlier this year. This time the character looked more like Mario from its console namesake. The previous record video game sale was a paltry $114,000, set last July. Super Mario Bros was brought to Game & Watch in 1986. The unopened Nintendo video game is “the finest copy known to have been professionally graded for auction,” the company said in a statement. There may be a fortune hiding in that dusty box of old video game cartridges.Īn original 1985 edition of “Super Mario Bros.” for the Nintendo Entertainment System sold for a whopping $660,000 in Dallas Friday, smashing the world record for a single video game sale, according to Heritage Auctions, which handled the transaction. Two buttons control all the action A classic that introduced many players to video games Earn power-ups and shoot fireballs at your enemies Eight levels of. In order to help with this, the Gold Flower was introduced in the game which. One of the main elements of the game includes Mario trying to collect one million coins. Sneakers, video games, fancy bags: How Americans are snubbing stock market for goods and an indirect sequel to New Super Mario Bros. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into mere stones, bricks and even field horsehair plants, and the Mushroom Kingdom fell into ruin. Man struck by lightning while playing PlayStation in his living room Story (from the original instruction booklet) One day the kingdom of the peaceful mushroom people was invaded by the Koopa, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. Massive ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ gameplay leak confirmed by Rockstar Games The Nintendo classic Super Mario Bros., widely considered one of the best video games ever made celebrates its 30th anniversary Sept. Video game ‘leaker’ exposed as popular YouTuber