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Comment by nicetryguy | Hacker News Reader

This is a small group of investors selling and making these ridiculous purchases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toN5NFr48T8&t=31s

Unlike the other games going for ridiculous prices, a mint boxed SMB is genuinely rare since nobody really had a need to purchase it and later retail variants came combined with Duck Hunt.

Something in hadn't considered was the sans duck hunt.. My fam got NES quite late in 89-90(at least) and indistinctly recall it being bundled with duck hunt. Not sure I have seen a standalone cart.

I was a little jealous of people who had Duck Hunt with theirs since we had gotten ours earlier.

The Action Set was probably the most popular NES bundle and came with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. However there was a number of different bundles with different games or no game even. Nintendo sold SMB standalone until 1994 at least according to WATA's Black Box variants page. Some bundles even came with just SMB and no NES Zapper.

It's still an insanely common title.

the legend of zelda also only sold for that sum, because it had a really good quality and it was in an early production run ( NES R and there is an earlier production run NES TM, but as people know only a single copy of that exists and the owner wont sell).

Yes a hanging tab black box SMB in good condition is very rare but 2 million is just absolutely ridiculous; and most likely fraudulent.

I remember when Nintendo World Championship carts were selling for $40,000+ a few years ago (before these WATA scammers got involved) and that was by far the most rare and valuable cart... Super Mario Bros is a game that sold 30+ Million copies in various NES cart forms. This reeks of fishy dishonest speculation.

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