Unopened Super Mario 64 game sells for more than £1 million
An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for 1.56 million US dollars (£1.12 million).
Heritage Auctions in Dallas said that the 1996 game sold on Sunday, breaking its previous record price for the sale of a single video game.
A spokesman did not immediately respond to an inquiry about who purchased the game.
Super Mario 64 was the best-selling game on the Nintendo 64 and the first to feature the Mario character in 3D, the auction house said in a statement.
The sale follows an unopened copy of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda selling at auction Friday for 870,000 dollars (£625,000).
Valarie McLeckie, Heritage’s video game specialist, said the auction house was shocked to see a game sell for more than a million dollars two days after the Zelda game broke its past record.
The unopened copy of Nintendo´s Super Mario 64 sold at auction for £1.12 million (Heritage Auctions via AP)
In April, the auction house sold an unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros that was bought in 1986 and forgotten about in a desk drawer for 660,000 dollars (£475,000).
