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Ultra-Rare Zelda Cart Fetching 6 Digits Before Auction Even Begins

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Zelda joins big brother Mario in parting rich bidders from hundreds of thousands of dollars

 

Update (07/09/2021, 2:38 p.m. ET): This copy of The Legend of Zelda has sold for $870,000, far surpassing the Super Mario Bros. that went for $660,000 in April to set a new record for a single video game auction. Holy crap.

 

The original story follows below.

A super-rare version of The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System is getting a lot of attention at Heritage Auctions, where pre-bidding has seen the 1987 NES cartridge surpass $100,000 before the auction’s official July 9 start date.

 

While the listing is dripping with Heritage Auctions’ usual bid-coaxing flair—I’m screaming at describing the item as “the apotheosis of rarity, cultural significance, and collection centerpieces” in particular—there’s no doubt that this copy of The Legend of Zelda is special. Apart from a single sealed copy from the game’s very first production run, this is billed as the earliest known copy of The Legend of Zelda in existence at this quality, distributed for just a few months in late 1987.

 

 

Source: Kotaku

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