A sealed edition of the 1988 video game Super Mario Bros. 2 sold for $88,550, according to an auction firm managing an estate sale for a recently dead Indiana woman.
Workers searching Patricia Martin’s Floyd Knobs house for goods to offer for the estate auction discovered a box of Nintendo Entertainment System games in the back of a walk-in closet, according to Harritt Group Inc.
As the item’s listing states, “At first glance, it was a comforting wave of classic Nintendo nostalgia. All the classics were there, Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Qix, and even an NES console.
So we did what any children of the 1990s would do: we fired up the console and tested the open games.
It was a great day,” “At a second glance, it was something else entirely. The seemingly ordinary collection included an extraordinary unopened copy of Super Mario Bros. 2.”
Experts inspected the unopened game and gave it a 9.8 A+ grade, indicating that it is in “near-mint condition.”
The game was eventually sold to a Florida businessman for $88,550.
In July, a sealed edition of the 1996 game Super Mario 64 established a global record when it sold for $1.56 million at auction.
The sale comes just two days after a copy of The Legend of Zelda sold for $870,000, breaking the previous record.
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