Old stuff from the attic is barely good for the flea market and brings in little money?
This assumption does not have to be correct.
A video game seller is now rich.
Whether old Ü-Egg or Hummel figurines *, rare antiques or coins with incorrect minting: some utensils bring in more money than you would expect. The same thing happened to the owner of an old video game. As the
Spiegel
reported,
a 25-year-old copy of the classic game "Super Mario 64" achieved an unbelievable sale price of 1,560,000 US dollars at auction
! That is the equivalent of 1,387,214 euros - so much has never been paid for a video game, it is said.
The auctioned item is the video game
"Super Mario 64" from 1996 in
its original packaging
.
According to the American multinational auction house Heritage Auctions, the auction of the video game classic has broken all previous records.
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🎉 # HERITAGELIVE #WORLDRECORD !!
Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A ++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA just sold for $ 1,560,000 at #HeritageAuctions, smashing previous mark of $ 870K, set Friday at Heritage for The Legend of Zelda!
https://t.co/SUgiijkkzL#SuperMario #Nintendo # N64 #WATA pic.twitter.com/rHpTuZl95l
- Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) July 11, 2021
“Super Mario 64” or “The Legend of Zelda”: Video games can make a lot of money
Shortly before that, another video game broke the auction record:
an edition of "The Legend of Zelda" had changed hands for 870,000 US dollars,
as the
Spiegel
reported.
An anonymous buyer had acquired the rare R version of the game, according to the
pcgameshardware.de
portal
.
The sealed cartridge in its original packaging came from a very early production series that only rolled off the production line at Nintendo for a few months in 1987, it said.
Especially limited editions games might
pcgameshardware
bring in huge sums, according to.
Do you have a rare and old video game console with associated games - ideally in the original packaging?
Then it is always worthwhile to get information about the current value of the pieces.
Contact points include auction houses.
(jg)
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