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‘Super Mario’ cartridge sold for video game record $1.5 million

A Super Mario 64 game cartridge sold at auction for $1.56 million, the first ever sale of a game cartridge to surpass $1 million.

WASHINGTON: A cartridge of Nintendo’s classic video game “Super Mario 64” set a world record Sunday, selling at auction for $1.56 million.

The sale, the first ever of a game cartridge to surpass $1 million, came just two days after a sealed copy of “The Legend of Zelda” — made for the old Nintendo NES console — sold for a then-record of $870,000.

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which handled both sales, has not identified the buyers.Before Friday, the record for a video game auction was the sale in April of a 1986 “Super Mario Bros.” cartridge: it went for $660,000.

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