that was bought in 1986 and forgotten about in a desk drawer for 660,000. According to the product page, the plastic-sealed cartridge was also the oldest copy of Super Mario Bros. 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. In April, the auction house sold an unopened copy of Nintendos Super Mario Bros. Not just for Mario, but for a whole generation of gaming, and generations after that to be honest. 2 cartridge that was found in a box of video games that had been stashed in a filled walk-in closet, CNN reported. That's right, the game that started it all. Harritt Group recently sold a near-mint unopened Super Mario Bros. RELATED: A Rare Pokémon Card Was Just Sold For $195,000 The latest retro gaming item to hit the headlines is an original copy of Super Mario Bros. It feels as if not a week goes by without news breaking of yet another Pokemon card selling for $100,000 or more. The record for the world's most expensive videogame copy sold has been broken again. Now, many of those seemingly worthless objects are worth thousands of dollars. An unopened copy of Super Mario Bros sold for a record-setting 2 million. If only we could go back in time and stop ourselves.
Enlarge / Ba-ding Last week, a copy of the first printing of Super Mario Bros. 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. Now a 'holy grail,' sticker-sealed box was valued at just 2,000 to 4,000 in 2012.
Growing up, most people would never think to keep a toy or a game sealed in the box it came in. The 34-year-old copy was certified by video game grading service Wata Games with a 'near mint' grade of 9.4 and a 'seal rating' of A++. for the NES recently asked for a cool $1 million for what is likely the one-of-a-kind product. The owner of a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros.