A Super Mario game sold for $660,000, and no, it wasn't an NFT

NFTs are all the money-making rage lately, but it seems a good ol' fashioned vintage video game will still make you big bucks at an auction. 

Heritage Auctions sold off an unopened, pristinely packaged Super Mario Bros. from 1986 for a grand total of $660,000. According to AP News, it was a Christmas gift. Whoever it was intended for must not have been a huge video game person, because it sat untouched in a drawer for 35 years with all of its original packaging intact. 

The back of the most expensive Super Mario Bros. game ever.

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Perhaps even more bizarre, the seemingly inconsequential packaging was a key factor on whether the game sale would net hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read more...

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