The never-opened 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game sells for a record $ 2 million

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If only I had kept this cartridge and never, never opened it …

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This Mario is really Super. On Friday, the collecting site Rally announced that someone paid $ 2 million for an unopened 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game cartridge, setting a world record. That sale breaks the record set less than a month ago, when an anonymous Heritage Auctions buyer paid $ 1.56 million for a 25-year-old copy of Super Mario 64.

“A NEW WORLD RECORD on Rally with the $ 2,000,000 sale of our 1985 Super Mario Bros., which marks the HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID for a video game of any title,” the site announced in a tweet.

While the previous record was set on an auction site, Rally has a different system, buying items and inviting people to invest in stocks of those items. When a bid arrives on an item, investors vote whether to sell or hold.

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“Space (video game) is incredibly hot right now,” said a Rally rep. Three thousand shares of the Super Mario Bros. game were originally offered to investors for a total value of $ 150,000 in August 2020.

It is definitely a profitable sale. The New York Times reports that Rally bought the game in April 2020 for $ 140,000 and that investors made an offer of $ 300,000 in the same year. A graduate student who spoke to the newspaper said he invested $ 100 in the game’s stock and made $ 950 from the sale.

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