{"id":498239,"date":"2026-06-13T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498239\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:21:08","slug":"sealed-super-mario-bros-sells-for-a-record-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498239\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealed Super Mario Bros. sells for a record $3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">A copy of Super Mario Bros., still in the box and sealed with its original sticker, just sold at Heritage Auctions for <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcomics.ha.com%2Fitm%2Fvideo-games%2Fnintendo%2Fsuper-mario-bros-psa-96-a-sealed-gloss-sticker-second-production-with-control-deck-nes-nintendo-1985-usa%2Fa%2F7453-28025.s%3Fic%3Dhero-videoGames-superMario-clickHeroImage-7453-061226%23\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$3 million<\/a>. That absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/copy-of-super-mario-bros-sells-for-3-million-in-auction-2000706228\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crushes<\/a> the previous record of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/8\/7\/22614450\/unopened-copy-super-mario-bros-sells-2-million-record\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$2 million<\/a>, also for a copy of Super Mario Bros., in 2021. That sale also came hot on the heels of a controversial auction of Super Mario 64 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/11\/22572688\/super-mario-64-most-expensive-video-game-ever-heritage-auctions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1.56 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Part of what drove the price of this particular copy so high is that, according to Heritage Auctions, instead of shrink wrap, this 19895 second run was sealed with a glossy sticker, which was discontinued shortly after. The site claims it\u2019s the earliest known sealed copy of the game in existence. It\u2019s also graded at 9.6 A++ by Professional Sports Authenticator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The price of vintage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/9\/22570401\/legend-of-zelda-nes-sealed-copy-heritage-auctions-most-expensive-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gaming<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/3\/8\/21170206\/rare-nintendo-play-station-console-auction-sony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collectibles<\/a> has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/24\/22587929\/super-mario-64-heritage-auctions-most-expensive-wata-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">skyrocketing<\/a> over the last few years. It was only in July of 2020 that Heritage Auctions set the record for the highest price paid for a game at auction, again, with a copy of Super Mario Bros., for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/10\/21320274\/super-mario-bros-sealed-copy-auction-record-most-expensive-game-ever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$114,000<\/a>. Six years later, that seems like an absolute bargain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">If the winner of the auction decides to do the unthinkable and break the seal on the game, Heritage Auctions is throwing in an NES console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A copy of Super Mario Bros., still in the box and sealed with its original sticker, just sold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[213,61,60,43,4410,80],"class_list":["post-498239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-nintendo","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}