Time to head up to my attic and see what I have......

Sealed Mario 64's Record-Breaking $1.5M Sale Has Retro Experts Skeptical

Super Mario 64 is not one of rarest or oldest video games by any stretch, but that didn't stop it from reportedly selling for $1.5 million at auction over the weekend. It was the latest stunning display of just how vintage game collecting has blown up amidst a new speculation-fueled bubble.

A factory-sealed copy of 1996's Super Mario 64 with a condition grading of 9.8 A++ (practically undamaged) went for $1,560,000 at the Heritage Auctions house on July 11, setting a new record for the highest-selling single video game ever at auction. To put it in perspective, that was almost double the previous record, set just a few days prior by The Legend of Zelda. It's also just under half of what the a copy of Action Comics #1, Superman's first-ever appearance back in 1938, went for earlier this year.

READ MORE HERE.....
https://kotaku.com/sealed-mario-64s-record-breaking-1-5m-sale-has-retro-e-1847274681

Quote from: Bronx on July 13, 2021, 06:00:50 AMTime to head up to my attic and see what I have......

Sealed Mario 64's Record-Breaking $1.5M Sale Has Retro Experts Skeptical

Super Mario 64 is not one of rarest or oldest video games by any stretch, but that didn't stop it from reportedly selling for $1.5 million at auction over the weekend. It was the latest stunning display of just how vintage game collecting has blown up amidst a new speculation-fueled bubble.

A factory-sealed copy of 1996's Super Mario 64 with a condition grading of 9.8 A++ (practically undamaged) went for $1,560,000 at the Heritage Auctions house on July 11, setting a new record for the highest-selling single video game ever at auction. To put it in perspective, that was almost double the previous record, set just a few days prior by The Legend of Zelda. It's also just under half of what the a copy of Action Comics #1, Superman's first-ever appearance back in 1938, went for earlier this year.

READ MORE HERE.....
https://kotaku.com/sealed-mario-64s-record-breaking-1-5m-sale-has-retro-e-1847274681

Wow, thats crazy.
Thing is I stopped playing mario after Super Mario World and Mario RPG. I never did own an N64 tho my friend did. I had switched to PC gaming by that point. Never been much of a console man since...

Wait, 1996? Ohhh, that was so long ago...

That's amazing.

N64 was after my time, so I never got to play it.  I played the hell out of Mario Bros though.