{"id":3046,"date":"2026-06-13T22:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/sealed-super-mario-bros-sells-for-a-record-3-million\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:37:21","slug":"sealed-super-mario-bros-sells-for-a-record-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/sealed-super-mario-bros-sells-for-a-record-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealed Super Mario Bros. sells for a record $3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sealed Super Mario Bros. NES game.\" data-caption=\"You know this came for free bundle with the console for $150, right? | Image: Heritage Auctions\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Heritage Auctions\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/ha.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tYou know this came for free bundle with the console for $150, right? | Image: Heritage Auctions\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A copy of <em>Super Mario Bros.<\/em>, still in the box and sealed with its original sticker, just sold at Heritage Auctions for <a href=\"https:\/\/comics.ha.com\/itm\/video-games\/nintendo\/super-mario-bros-psa-96-a-sealed-gloss-sticker-second-production-with-control-deck-nes-nintendo-1985-usa\/a\/7453-28025.s?ic=hero-videoGames-superMario-clickHeroImage-7453-061226#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$3 million<\/a>. That absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/copy-of-super-mario-bros-sells-for-3-million-in-auction-2000706228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crushes<\/a> the previous record of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/8\/7\/22614450\/unopened-copy-super-mario-bros-sells-2-million-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$2 million<\/a>, also for a copy of <em>Super Mario Bros.<\/em>, in 2021. That sale also came hot on the heels of a controversial auction of <em>Super Mario 64<\/em> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/11\/22572688\/super-mario-64-most-expensive-video-game-ever-heritage-auctions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.56 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Part of what drove the price of this particular copy so high is that, according to Heritage Auctions, instead of shrink wrap, this 19895 second run was sealed with a glossy sticker, which was discontinued shortly after. The site claims it&rsquo;s the earliest known sealed copy of the game in existence. It&rsquo;s also gr \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/949593\/super-mario-bros-3-million-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know this came for free bundle with the console for $150, right? | Image: Heritage Auctions A copy of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}