Mario might be one of many world’s most recognizable characters and franchises within the gaming business. This is why it doesn’t actually come as a shock to be taught {that a} sealed copy of Super Mario 64 managed to fetch an eye-watering $1.5 million when it was offered at Heritage Auctions over the weekend.

To be particular, the sport managed to fetch $1.56 million, and what’s attention-grabbing is that just a few days previous to the sale, a sealed copy of the NES model of The Legend of Zelda truly fetched $870,000 which was some huge cash already, nevertheless it was quickly rapidly eclipsed by the sale of Super Mario 64.

The sale of the sport makes it the most costly recreation to have ever been offered, and presumably the one recreation to have crossed the $1 million mark. As The Verge famous, over the previous 12 months numerous classic video games have been offered at public sale the place in April 2021, a replica of Super Mario Bros. truly offered for $660,000.

That being mentioned, we now have to marvel if this might nonetheless be a factor 10-20 years down the street, particularly with loads of video games nowadays being offered as digital copies. If you’re hoping to land a rating like this in the future, perhaps it’s time to start out contemplating buying video games of their bodily kind.

Filed in Gaming. Read extra about Mario and Nintendo. Source: theverge