Will the day come when this news accumulates and remains valid for more than a month? The video game sales by astronomical figures they have reached another level throughout this 2021. In just a few months the record for the most expensive game of all time has been broken several times.
In April a copy of Super Mario Bros. rose like the most expensive, to be surpassed by The Legend of Zelda in July and just two days later, be advance by Super Mario 64. Now, we return to the original adventure of the mustachioed plumber, as a copy of Super Mario Bros. on the NES has been sold for $ 2,000,000.
Punks, X-Men, Declarations, and some news…
🏆A NEW WORLD RECORD on Rally🏆
…w/ the $2,000,000 sale of our 1985 Super Mario Bros., marking the HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID for a video game of any title.
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The most striking thing about the Rally page, in charge of the transaction, is that the anonymous buyer bought the game based on acquire all the shares on it. This is possible since in Rally it is possible to buy shares of collectible objects, such as stickers, comics or old cars.
In this way, investors are guaranteed a simple way to increase the money used and in this case, as reported The New York Times, the return for them has been 900%. What is special about this copy of Super Mario Bros. it is not really different from the other occasions.
It is factory sealed, qualified by a company that gives scores to the conservation of objects and belongs to a limited edition. Now, you just have to wait a few days until someone else raises the record even more.