The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario Bros. franchise has broken a world record, as a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 has sold for $156,000 at auction.

The rare video game market has grown considerably over the past few years. It's surprisingly difficult to find games from the NES generation in perfect condition. Many of these games were given as gifts to children, and we know how careless they can be with toys, especially those in flimsy cardboard boxes. This is why sealed copies of games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kid Icarus can sell for over $10,000, despite ♛loose cartridges selling for a few dollars each online.

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A new world record has been set for the sale of a rare video game. According to 🧸, a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 sold for $156,000 as part of a video game auction. The auction came down to a battle between 20 different bidders. This particular copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 is worth so much because of its quality grading, and the fact that it's part of an early production run, where the Bros. in the name was placed over Mario's glove.

The title screen for Super Mario Bros. 3, showing Mario and Luigi

It wasn't just Super Mario Bros. 3 that sold for a ridiculous amount of money at the auction, as a sealed copy of Pokemon Red went under the hammer for $84,000. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon cards have sold for🔥 a ton at auction in the past, but this was a rare instance of one of the mainline games appreciating i🌞🤪n value.

This copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 has dethroned the previous world record holder, which was a copy of the original Super Mario Bros. that sold for ov♋er $100,0💎00. The historical nature of the early Mario games has contributed to the value of these games. Mario is one of the original video game icons, and his games continue to amaze fans to this very day. His first adventures on the NES were ൲ground-breaking in a number of ways, and people want the chance to enshrine these sealed games in their personal collection.

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