No one's buying these games to play them - they're readily available for far less money and far newer gaming hardware. Rarity of course plays a major role in determining how historical curiosities like these are valued. That auction's claim to fame? You guessed it: The most ever paid for a video game. If we look back another stretch of months, to November 2020, a copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for $660,000 - which was the most anyone had paid for a game to that point. Just a few months earlier, back in April, a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. This record-setting Mario 64 sale follows the record-setting Legend of Zelda sale from just days earlier. Video game auctions have been on a tear in 2021.
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"The cultural significance of this title and its importance to the history of video games is paramount, and the condition of this copy is just so breathtaking that we're really at a loss here," the description reads.
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Heritage Auctions called it the "highest graded copy" of the game to date, with a professional grading of Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed. Of course, for collectors this particular copy of Mario 64 turned out to be quite a find, and not just because it's one of the most popular video games in history. The most a video game has ever sold for at auction. Yes, on the same day that one of Earth's billionaires launched into space on the wings of a weird, self-aggrandizing infomercial livestream, another person elsewhere on the planet decided that a 25-year-old video game was worth well over $1 million. Super Mario 64, the beloved and top-selling Nintendo 64 launch game, sold at auction for $1,560,000. If you thought $870,000 was a lot to spend on a copy of The Legend of Zelda then you're not going to believe this latest development from the world of video game auctions.
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