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Shigeru Miyamoto, a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, will speak at the opening ceremony of “Super Nintendo World” on March 18, 2021.
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Maybe there’s a fortune in that dusty box of old video game cartridges.
An original 1985 release of “Super Mario Bros.” for the Nintendo Entertainment System that sold for a whopping $ 660,000 in Dallas Friday, breaking the world record for a single video game sale, according to Heritage Auctions, which handled the transaction.
The unopened Nintendo video game is “the best copy known to have been professionally rated for auction,” the company said in a statement. Previous record video game sales were a meager $ 114,000, set in July.
The record cartridge was purchased as a Christmas present in 1986 and then placed in a drawer and forgotten for 35 years before being found earlier this year.
The names of the seller and the buyer have not been released.
[The video game] has been at the bottom of my desk the whole time since the day I bought it, ”said the seller in the Heritage Auctions publication. “I’ve never thought about it.”