Super Mario 64, which you can simply download, sells for $ 1.56 million

Last Friday a sealed copy of the original The Legend of Zelda was auctioned for $ 870,000 and won the title of the most expensive video game ever sold. Then, because the collectors of the world have too much money and too little sense to simply buy a copy of either game on their switches, this record was broken by someone who spent 1 , $ 56 million for Super Mario 64 yesterday.

Uproxx covered at once these stories, describing how Heritage auctions sold drugs rich an unopened copy of the years 1986 THE Legend of Zelda for $ 870.00, which broke last April’s record of $ 660,000 for a Super Mario Bros. cartridge. While this is already an absurd way to spend money that could be better spent on, say, buying around 20,000 copies of a much better game, like Disco Elysee (approximately 87,000 Steam keys for the wonderful Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days), collectors continued to throw money at other auctions.

Yesterday, in a second celebration of Italian excellence, a seal Super Mario 64 went for $ 1,560,000 – the plumber knocked poor Link off his perch and made his Nintendo 64 debut the most expensive game never sold. We’re not going to do the math, but that money certainly could have been spent more wisely on a downloadable version of the game. and a few thousand copies of Kentucky Route Zero or the 2016 Loss with a lot of rest.

We guess the lesson to be learned from all of this is to never play a video game that you buy in the hopes that a life of detention will end up yielding riches beyond your imagination. And no, it’s definitely not a good idea to play with your Pokemon cards while sitting in front of your dark TV to pass the time either.

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