Developer: Systems Research & Development Co., Ltd., Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development.The game was graded to 9.4, and was sold via Heritage Auctions. While this list isn't about the graded copies, it would be criminal not to mention that the most money ever paid for an NES cart was $114,000 in July 2020 for a sealed and graded copy of Super Mario Bros. That cart came new, sealed in the box looking exactly as it did when it was pulled off a shelf more than three decades ago. For the gamer who never bothered to open theirs, and managed to keep it safe and protected for 35+ years, that cart can be worth as much as $13,200, like one that sold in mid-June 2020 on eBay. Of course, that's for what 99.99% of people have in terms of the first Super Mario Bros. A loose cart will sell for around $12 to $15, and even one with the box, sleeve, and booklet will only fetch around $120. As a result, everybody had a copy, and it's anything but rare. If you owned an NES back in the day, you had a copy of Super Mario Bros., as it was the game that came with the system - back when games still came prepackaged with consoles. Not allВ NES games are worth a ton of cash, but these stand out as the rarest andВ most sought after, and are now considered some of most expensiveВ NES games ever produced. While most of us probably had a few of these games lying around at one point, the mostВ valuable NES games really start to skyrocket in price when you include the box and the instructions, and even more if the game's never been opened. Random eBay auctions routinely go up with versions of games that were either never opened or are so rare, it doesn't matter if they were opened or not, and collectors outbid one another in a mad dash to finish their collection. These days, some rare NES games are so coveted thatВ they often sellВ for hundreds, if not thousands (and even hundreds of thousands)В of dollars online. Another thing nobody could have predicted was that any of those amazing little gray cartridges could be worth more than the money people paid for them, but time makes fools of us all.

Back in the mid-1980s, nobody could have imagined that the Nintendo Entertainment System would be able to bring the video game industry out of the funk that came with the market crash, but that's exactly what it did.

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