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Shigeru Miyamoto, a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, speaks at the opening ceremony of ‘Super Nintendo World’ on March 18, 2021.
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There might be a fortune lurking in that dusty box of old video games.
An original 1985 edition of ‘Super Mario Bros.’ ‘for the Nintendo Entertainment System sold for an almighty $ 660,000 in Dallas Friday, breaking the world record for a single video game sale, according to Heritage Auctions, which handled the deal.
The unopened Nintendo video game is “the best copy known to be professionally classified at auction,” the company said in a statement. The previous record sales for video games were a meager $ 114,000, set in July last year.
The pattern-setting pattern was purchased as a Christmas present in 1986, then placed in a drawer and forgotten for 35 years, before being found earlier this year.
The names of the seller and the buyer were not disclosed.
‘[The video game] has remained at the bottom of my office couch the entire time since the day I bought it, ”the seller said in the Heritage Auctions announcement. “I never thought about it.”