![]() ![]() Friday's record sale also contributed the largest chunk of cash on the day towards Heritage's first ever million-dollar video game auction. The previous record holder was also a rare variant which had cardboard hang tags instead of plastic ones attached to cellophane wrapping. That beat the previous record of $114,000, which belonged to an unopened copy of the original Super Mario Bros. ![]() In all, a total of 20 collectors got in on the action, and the final tally was an astounding $156,000. Likely due to a combination of Mario 3's popularity, the rarity of its box art variant, and the exceptional grade, the bidding began at $62,500. ![]() For a game that launched 30 years ago, that's very impressive. Since then, nearly every Mario platformer from the SNES to the Nintendo Switch have had equally diverse worlds. This particular copy was graded by Wata with a score of 9.2, which Wata equates with an A+ grade. 3 was a truly influential Mario game to have on the NES.This game introduced tons of things to the the Mario series like enemies and music, but most of all it was the first to use overworld maps to navigate between levels. 3 is above Mario's head on the yellow background right here, whereas the copy Heritage Auctions had up for bid had its "Bros." over the top of Mario's white gloved hand. The only change is that the "Bros." in Super Mario Bros. Do you see the difference? It's pretty subtle. ![]()
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