The first-generation brand-new packaging “Legend of Zelda” cassette sold for $870,000

Usually, when players buy a new game, they can’t wait to unpack it. Few people buy it and store it in hiding. If it is said that current players may still buyback to collect, then in the era of video games, few people would realize this, and even buy them specifically for appreciation. Sometimes you buy it and forget it all. If you are lucky, this kind of unintentional act will bring you a windfall from the sky like scratching a lottery ticket.

In April of this year, the unopened first-generation “Super Mario Bros.” game cassette created an auction price of $660,000. This classic work on FC was launched by Nintendo in 1985. The seller said that this box of game cassettes was purchased as a Christmas gift that year, and it was kept in a drawer until early 2021. “Super Mario Bros.” is a popular game at auction. Many works have set auction price records, but this time the original record price has been increased by four times.

Unexpectedly, such a high price record did not last for a few months. The first version of the unopened “Legend of Zelda” game cassette was sold at a price of $870,000. According to The Verge, the reason is that this “NES R” version was only sold for a few months in 1987, and was replaced by the “Rev-A” version in 1988, and the packaging remained intact. It is understood that there is a version called “NES TM” before the “NES R” version. It is the first model produced. The game industry generally thinks that there is only one, and it is not clear whether it has entered the market, so the “NES R” should be the earliest purchased version in the actual sense.