An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for £1.12 million.
Heritage Auctions in Dallas said that the 1996 game was sold yesterday, breaking its previous record price for the sale of a single video game.
But a spokesman failed to disclose who had bought the game.
Super Mario 64 was the best-selling game on the Nintendo 64 and the first to feature the Mario character in 3D.
The sale follows an unopened copy of Nintendo’s The Legend Of Zelda which sold on Friday for £625,000.
Valarie McLeckie, Heritage’s video game specialist, said the auction house was shocked to see a game beat the Zelda record within two days.
In April, the auction house sold an unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros that was bought in 1986 and forgotten about in a desk drawer for £475,000.
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