In recent years, the rating of retro games has exploded, and, over time, more and more titles can claim a certain nostalgic value. Now legendary, Super Mario 64 is one of those titles taking enormous value, as long as the condition of the copy, whose box is cardboard, is up to par. This is the case of a new sealed copy sold this weekend at auction, and left for the sum of $ 1,560,000 with an entry price of $ 100,000.
An extremely high price, which erases the shelves of previous record, held for only two days by a copy of The Legend of Zelda. On July 9, the first game of the license has indeed found a buyer who put 870,000 dollars to afford it. As is often the case when it comes to video game auctions, this all happened at Heritage Auctions, who said it was one of the very, very few known examples of ‘a Super Mario 64 sealed and rated by experts to be in perfect condition. Currently there would be less than five copies of Super Mario 64 with such a high level of preservation