(CNN)A sealed Super Mario Bros. 2 video crippled from 1988 recovered astatine the backmost of a walk-in closet successful Indiana has sold for much than $88,000, according to the auction location handling its sale.
Harritt Group said the point was recovered successful "near-mint" information successful a container of video games successful the crowded closet, which was portion of a deceased property successful Floyds Knobs, Indiana.
"At archetypal glance, it was a comforting question of classical Nintendo nostalgia. All the classics were there, Super Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, Qix, and adjacent an NES console. So we did what immoderate children of the 1990s would do: we fired up the console and tested the unfastened games," Harritt Group said successful its statement of the item.
But the unopened transcript of the Super Mario Bros. 2 crippled was assessed by Wata Games successful Denver, which gave it a 9.8 A+ standing -- the 2nd highest people it could receive, the auction location said.
At an online auction past week the point sold for $88,550, including the buyer's premium.
In the game, Mario and his friends indispensable escaped the onshore of Subcon from the evil Wart.
Games from Super Mario, a bid archetypal released successful 1985, person been fetching record-breaking prices successful the past mates of years.
In July, a transcript of Super Mario 64 sold for implicit $1.5 million, the astir ever paid for a video game. It broke the grounds acceptable astatine the aforesaid auction for different Nintendo game, The Legend of Zelda, which fetched $870,000, according to auction location Heritage.
Before those 2 record-breaking sales, the highest terms ever paid for a crippled astatine auction was believed to beryllium $660,000, paid astatine different Heritage auction successful April for a sealed transcript of Super Mario Bros.
Prior to that, a sealed variant of Super Mario Bros. 3 had sold for $156,000, the institution said, successful crook breaking the grounds video crippled terms acceptable successful July of $114,000 -- for a 1985 transcript of the game.
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