This is the most expensive video game ever sold at public auction and it sold for $114,000

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A 1985  cartridge of Super Mario Bros. has sold for $114,000/£90,300, setting a new world record for the most expensive video game ever sold at pubꦍlic auction.

The game, whicಌh has been sealed and unplayed for 35 years, was sold earlier this week, knocking the previous record-holder – a 1987 sea🍃led copy of Mega Man, which was sold for $75,000 last year – off the top spot. 

According to a press release, "collectors coveted the copy because it has been sealed since 1985 and retained its or🙈iginal hangtab".

In related news, the world's only known Nintendo PlayStation was recently sold at auction for an eye-watering $360,000 (£275,000), generating twelve times its opening bid of $30K. That $360K includes a 20 per cent "buyers premium" fee, but it's still a bargain, really, given how quickly 𓆉the bid accelerated when the lot was first put up for sale. 

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Playstation – a console that was thought to be a myth, and a subject of video game lore – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:was available to buy via auction on after the sys💃tem resurfaced in an estate sale in 2015.

"This prototype has been around the world and back again, admired and appreciated by video game enthusiasts from a𝓰ll over," the item description teased when it went up for sale. "Even though this is the closing of this portion of iꦅts narrative, it will continue to remain a pivotal piece of video game history no matter where it ends up."

Oculus VR founder and Oculus Ri𒐪ft designer, Palmer Luckey, made an early effort to secure the console and was for some time, but did not ultimately secure the one-of-the-kind console.

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