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An unopened copy of Nintendo's Super Mario 64 game from 1996 sells for $1.56 million!
Heritage Auctions in Dallas said that the 1996 game broke its previous record price for the sale of a single video game.
Super Mario 64 was the best-selling game on Nintendo 64 and the first to feature the Mario character in 3D, the auction house said in a statement.
A spokesman didn't immediately respond to an inquiry about who purchased the game.
The sale follows an unopened copy of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda selling at auction Friday for $870,000! Valerie McLeckie, Heritage's video game specialist, said the auction house was shocked to see a game sell for more than $1 million just two days after the Zelda game broke its past record.
Back in April, the auction house sold an unopened copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. that was bought in 1986 and was forgotten about in a desk drawer for $660,000.
Looks like we're going to have to dust off our old Pokémon and Tamagotchi games/devices... maybe we're one game/device away from becoming millionaires...