Cult video game auctioned for almost 1.4 million euros: maybe you have it at home in the basement?
Created: 05/03/2022, 11:44 am
By: Juliane Gutmann
Old Nintendo games can be worth a lot more than their purchase price - one game has now broken all records (icon image).
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Old junk from the attic is just about good for the flea market and doesn't bring in much money?
This assumption does not have to be correct.
A video game salesman is now rich.
Whether it's old Ü-Egg or Hummel figurines*, rare antiques or mis-stamped coins: some utensils bring in more money than you would think.
The owner of an old video game also had this experience.
As
Der Spiegel
reported,
a 25-year-old copy of the classic game "Super Mario 64" fetched an unbelievable sale price of 1,560,000 US dollars at an auction
!
That's 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 original boxed video game
“Super Mario 64” from 1996
.
According to the American multinational auction house Heritage Auctions, the auction of the video game classic broke all previous records.
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"Super Mario 64" or "The Legend of Zelda": video games can bring in 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,
as reported by
Spiegel
.
According to the portal
pcgameshardware.de
, an anonymous buyer bought the rare R version of the game .
The sealed cartridge in the original packaging was from a very early production line that rolled off the Nintendo assembly line just a few months back in 1987, the company said.
According to pcgameshardware
, limited game editions in particular could
bring in enormous sums.
Do you have a rare and old video game console with associated games - ideally in the original packaging?
In that case, it is definitely worth obtaining information about the current value of the pieces.
Contact points include auction houses.
(jg)
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