Just last month, two classic Nintendo titles sold at auction and broke world records back to back. The first record-breaker was a copy of The Legend of Zelda that sold for $870,000 and was part of an early and limited production run of the game; that sale was eclipsed 48 hours later by a near-pristine, sealed copy of Super Mario 64 which sold for $1.56 million.
The bar has been set even higher now that the world record for most expensive video game ever sold has been broken. Again. A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. for NES has sold for $2 million, though the method of sale was a bit different than the previous record-breaking games, which sold at auction. This copy of Super Mario Bros. was sold through Rally, a platform which buys collectibles and then turns them into small companies that people can purchase shares in. If an interested buyer makes an offer to purchase an item, the shareholders can then vote whether to sell the item. After Rally purchased the game for $140,000 in April 2020, an anonymous collector came forward with an offer to purchase the game, which the shareholders approved.

It also goes without saying that if the trend continues, it’s likely that this latest sale record won’t last long before it’s smashed by something else.
Source: The Verge