Sealed copy of 'Super Mario Bros. 2' sells for $88,550 in estate sale
Florida businessman claims unopened nostalgic 'Super Mario Bros. 2' game from auction for $88k. Reece Harnett Q News An auction house handling an estate sale for a recently deceased Indiana woman said a sealed copy of the 1988 video game Super Mario Bros. 2 sold for a whopping $88,550. Harritt Group Inc. said workers going through Patricia Martin's Floyd Knobs home to find items to list for the estate sale discovered a box of Nintendo Entertainment System games in the back of a walk-in closet. More than Nostalgia "At first glance, it was a comforting wave of classic Nintendo nostalgia. All the classics were there, Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Qix, and even an NES console. So, we did what any children of the 1990s would do: we fired up the console and tested the open games. It was a great day," Harritt Group said in its description of the item. "At a second glance, it was something else entirely. The seemingly ordinary collection included an extraordinary u...