The owner of a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES recently asked for a cool $1 million for what is likely the one-of-a-kind product.
Growing up, most people would never think to keep a toy or a game sealed in the box it came in. For starters, that would mean never being able to play with it, so what's the point? Chances are after we were done playing with those toys and games, we discarded them or sold them for minimal amounts of money.
If only we could go back in time and stop ourselves. Now, many of those seemingly worthless objects are worth thousands of dollars. It feels as if not a week goes by without news breaking of yet another Pokemon card selling for $100,000 or more. The latest retro gaming item to hit the headlines is an original copy of Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
That's right, the game that started it all. Not just for Mario, but for a whole generation of gaming, and generations after that to be honest. The owner of the still-sealed, Wata-certified copy of the game appeared on the show Pawn Stars and attempted to sell his prized possession to a collector.
The only sticking point? The asking price. The game's owner wanted a mind-blowing $1 million for what might well be a one-of-a-kind copy of Super Mario Bros.. Wata Games founder Deniz Khan appeared on the show, revealing the second print of the game is now the oldest known copy in existence, at least when it comes to ones that are still sealed. That's despite 10,000 second prints being made back in 1985.
As for whether the ballsy owner of the game got the $1 million he wanted, well, that was a big fat no. It certainly made for an interesting segment on the show, but $1 million for a video game was always going to be a tall order, even for one as rare and special as this. Super Mario Bros. does hold the record for the most expensive video game ever sold. A sealed test market copy of the game sold for $100,150 back in February of this year.
Source: GameFreaks365