In the United States, the most expensive video game in history was sold at auction
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/in-the-united-states-the-most-expensive-video-game-in-history-was-sold-at-auction.htmlCollectors of rarities are ready to pay crazy money to get another exhibit in their collection. At the same time, anything can be of value, from Pokemon game cards to cartridges for 8-bit consoles. Recently, a Super Mario Bros. game was sold at an auction in the United States.3 for 156 thousand dollars (11.9 million rubles), thus setting an absolute world record price for the game.
A valuable cartridge for the Nintendo Entertainment System television game console, which was sold in Known as Dendy, it was released in 1990. Its peculiarity is that the word Bros. on the sticker with the name of the game is formatted on the left side of the cartridge and therefore covers part of the character's glove.
The auction was held by Heritage Auctions and started with a price of 62.5 thousand dollars (4.9 million rubles). For the right to possess a rarity, 20 participants fought at once. The final price made the cartridge with the game about Italian plumbers the most expensive in the history of video games. The previous record price also belongs to the carrier with the game from the Super Mario series — for the cartridge, released in 1985, a certain collector paid 114 thousand dollars (8.7 million rubles).
Super Mario is a platform game released by Nintendo for video game consoles in 1985. It was so successful that it turned into a series, the last game of which was released in 2019. Today, Super Mario is available not only to console owners, but also to users PC and even mobile gadgets. Some experts believe that the franchise about plumbers has become the most popular game in all the years of the industry's existence.
Keywords: Auction | Video game | Money | Video game console | World record
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