Graded Wata 9.8 A++ — essentially as close to factory-mint as the grading scale allows — this was the highest-graded sealed copy of Super Mario 64 known to exist.
Heritage Auctions ran the sale entirely online, expecting a strong result but not the record it actually produced.
Guinness World Records officially certified it as the most expensive video game ever sold at online auction — a title that lasted barely a week before the two Mario Bros. sales above blew past it.
The sale kicked off a genuine media frenzy: outlets from the BBC to the Smithsonian covered the idea that a Nintendo 64 launch title was suddenly worth more than most houses.
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