Bought as a Christmas gift in 1986, this Super Mario Bros sold for $660,000

A copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. bought as a Christmas gift in late 1986 was placed inside a desk drawer and forgotten for 35 years. It remained sealed and untouched until it was discovered in 2021. On April 2 that year, the game sold for $660,000 at Heritage Auctions, setting a new record for the most ever paid for a video game.The game was sold as part of Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction in Dallas, Texas. The auction house described it as the finest known copy of the oldest sealed hangtab version of Super Mario Bros. to have been professionally graded for auction. The copy carried a Wata 9.6 A+ grade and was still sealed in its original packaging.The sale broke the previous record of $114,000, which had been set by another copy of Super Mario Bros. at a Heritage Auctions sale in July 2020.