After the auction of 1.5 million USD, Mario electronic tape set a new record for 2 million USD

Tram Ho

Mario is truly remarkable, in addition to being one of the most impressive game characters of all time, Mario also continuously breaks the world record for the highest selling game.

On Friday, Rally, a collectibles website, announced that someone had paid $2 million (46 billion VND) for a 1985 Super Mario Bros video tape “with its seal intact”, setting a new record. world. The deal broke a record set less than a month ago, when an anonymous buyer at Heritage Auctions paid $1.56 million for the video game, you guessed it, also Mario, it’s a Super Mario 64 game tape released in 1996, “dated” for 25 years and still has the seal intact.

Sau màn đấu giá 1,5 triệu USD, băng điện tử Mario lại lập kỷ lục mới với giá 2 triệu USD - Ảnh 1.

The website announced in a tweet: “A new Rally world record has been set with our 1985 Super Mario Bros. selling $2 million, the highest price paid for any game title. ever since”.

Sau màn đấu giá 1,5 triệu USD, băng điện tử Mario lại lập kỷ lục mới với giá 2 triệu USD - Ảnh 2.

While the previous record was set on an auction site, Rally has a different system of operation, where they buy items and invite people to invest in shares of those items. When an item has an offer, investors vote on whether to sell or hold.

“Game items are extremely hot,” a representative of Rally said. Three thousand shares in the game Super Mario Bros. was initially offered for sale to investors for a total of $150,000 in August 2020.

This is definitely a profitable sale. The New York Times reported that Rally bought the game in April 2020 for $140,000. Later that year, someone offered to buy $300,000, but investors refused. One graduate student, speaking to the New York Times, said he invested $100 in shares of Super Mario Bros. 1985 and earned $950 from the deal.

Reference: CNET

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