Nintendo video games have been commanding huge costs at auctions this 12 months. Just days after a uncommon copy of the Legend of Zelda fetched a file $870,000, an N64 traditional has nearly doubled that quantity. A very sealed Super Mario 64 offered for a whopping $1.56 million over the weekend.

That might seem to be an insane value for a best-selling recreation that hundreds of thousands of individuals owned, however the auctioneer says the copy’s mint situation units it aside out of your dusty outdated one. According to Heritage Auctions, the boxed recreation had a 9.8 A++ Sealed score on the Wata Scale. That means it is immaculately preserved in the identical situation as when it left the manufacturing unit. Such extremely rated video games are sometimes described as “Case Fresh.” 

Add to that the cultural impression of Super Mario 64, the plumber’s first true 3D escapade and a massively profitable launch title for the beloved N64 console, and you’ll see why it broke the seven-figure mark. By comparability, a virtually excellent copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES nabbed a file $660,000 in April earlier than the Legend of Zelda public sale beat it. While a Wata 9.4 A+ Sealed copy of Final Fantasy III pulled in $96,000 a number of days in the past.