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The most expensive video games are not scarce: they are best-sellers kept new and sealed, then graded by companies such as Wata or PSA. The absolute record is a sealed Super Mario Bros., sold for $3 million by Heritage Auctions in June 2026. By contrast, the second-hand games you find at a flea market (Game Boy Advance, DS, Wii) are generally worth a few euros to a few dozen euros.
Sources : Video Games Chronicle · Nintendo Wire
The most expensive video game ever sold. It is the earliest confirmed sealed copy of the production, one of only three known sealed copies from this run, and the best graded. The lot also included the launch NES console. The previous record was $1.56 million in 2021.
Source : CNHI News · Heritage Auctions sale, June 2026
A video game record in 2021, sold two days after the record for The Legend of Zelda, which it nearly doubled, according to Nintendo Wire.
Source : Nintendo Wire · Heritage Auctions sale, July 2021
It beat the previous record of $660,000 held by a sealed Super Mario Bros., before itself being surpassed two days later.
Source : Nintendo Wire · Heritage Auctions sale, 9 July 2021
Listed at over $300,000, it sold for $660,000, more than four times the previous record, according to GameSpot. Heritage describes it as the oldest sealed copy of this title it has ever offered.
Source : GameSpot · Heritage Auctions sale, April 2021
A competition cartridge made for a tournament, unlike the other games in this list which were widely sold. Nintendo Wire notes it is the only one in the lot that is genuinely scarce.
Source : Nintendo Wire · Heritage Auctions sale, July 2021
A video game record at the time. This copy has a packaging peculiarity: the word "Bros." is on the left, over one of Mario's gloves, which Heritage describes as the earliest version of the production.
Sources : Video Games Chronicle · Fox Business · Heritage Auctions sale, November 2020
A record for a Pokémon game, sold in the same auction as the $156,000 Super Mario Bros. 3.
Source : Video Games Chronicle · Heritage Auctions sale, November 2020
Prices found in the press and on marketplaces during our research of Oct 4, 2026. These are isolated sales, or asking prices where stated: they are not a price guide. Amounts are in their original currency.