Overview
- Heritage Auctions sold a sealed second-production Super Mario Bros. for the NES as part of a lot that included a boxed NES Control Deck, with reports citing roughly $3,000,000 and $3,750,000 as the sale price.
- The auction house called the offering one of the most important ever for the category and said the copy features an intact shiny adhesive seal used briefly in early 1986.
- Heritage and reporting outlets said only three sealed second-production copies with that shiny seal are known, and the sold example received a PSA 9.6 A++ grade that auctioneers called the best among them.
- Collectors value this variant because Nintendo switched from that adhesive seal to plastic shrinkwrap soon after, leaving few high-grade sealed examples from the NES launch era.
- The sale underlines how third-party grading and provenance now drive sky-high prices for sealed, early Nintendo titles and could push more collectors to seek verified, mint-condition copies.