$ 2 million for a copy of Super Mario Bros, New Record - News - Gamekul

Speculative fever around the games of our childhood does not seem to want to calm down, on the contrary: a copy of Super Mario Bros. On NES has thus been awarded $ 2 million in a recent auction (1.7 million euros).

Auction records during rare video game sales follow one another at a frantic pace for a few months. After a copy of The Legend of Zelda on NES sold for $ 878,000 (746,638 euros) There is barely a month, then a seal cartridge of Super Mario 64 acquired for the coquette sum of $ 1.56 million (more than 1.3 million euros) just two days later, we learn today that a new record has just been established by the sale of a super copy of Mario Bros. for two million dollars. And this, even as a previous sale of a copy of the game had concluded on a victorious auction of $ 660,000 (561 462 euros) in April and thus entered a new record, four times higher than the previous one. , held by a cartridge of Super Mario Bros. 3 .

The phenomenon therefore takes more and more magnitude and the valorization of rare games is accelerating at a crazy speed. This cartridge of Super Mario Bros. had been acquired for the sum of $ 140,000 (119 098 euros) by Rally, specializing in the accompaniment of investors in the purchase and sale of a lot of collection . After rejecting a first $ 300,000 offering, the company therefore organized this auction that has reached new heights. The buyer, an anonymous who _jarate Paris in the field of video games, therefore paid $ 2 million to get his hand on this cartridge. When will the next record?

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