'This is Mario's debut appearance in a 3D world, and it was the most popular – best-selling – video game for the N64,” she said. In promoting the auction, McLeckie said it was “impossible to overstate the importance of this title, not only to the history of Mario and Nintendo, but to video games as a whole”.
“After the record-breaking sale of the first game in the Zelda series on Friday, the possibility of surpassing $1 million on a single video game seemed like a goal that would need to wait for another auction,” Heritage Auctions Video Games Specialist Valarie McLeckie said. Sold by Heritage Auctions in Dallas Texas, the auction for the pristine copy of Super Mario 64 climbed in $50,000 and $25,000 increments until landing at $US1.3m.Ī further $US260,000 buyer’s premium was added, bringing the total amount paid to $US1.56m ($2.1m). A rare unopened Nintendo Super Mario 64 game from 1996 has sold at auction for a staggering $2.1m, shattering a record set just days earlier for a video game, The Legend of Zelda, which sold for $1.2m.
