Empty Super Mario 64 video game box sells for over $10K at auction
An empty box has sold for more than £8,000 (roughly $10,706.40), and a collection of five trading cards for over £12,000 (roughly $16,059.60) as part of an auction of retro video games and memorabilia. A box which originally contained the 1996 Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64, signed by Mario creator and “father of modern gaming” Shigeru Miyamoto, has sold for £8,450 (roughly $11,308.34).
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An empty box has sold for more than £8,000 (roughly $10,706.40), and a collection of five trading cards for over £12,000 (roughly $16,059.60) as part of an auction of retro video games and memorabilia. A box which originally contained the 1996 Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64, signed by Mario creator and “father of modern gaming” Shigeru Miyamoto, has sold for £8,450 (roughly $11,308.34). It was part of multiple collections of trading cards and retro video games sold by Ewbank’s Auctioneers, in Surrey, last week – which made a total of £200,000 (roughly $267,599). The box was signed by Miyamoto at an event at the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street, London, on February 21, 2003 – the first and only public appearance and signing event attended by Miyamoto in Europe.
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- An empty box has sold for more than £8,000 (roughly $10,706.40), and a collection of five trading cards for over £12,000 (roughly $16,059.60) as part of an auction of retro video games and memorabilia. A box which originally contained the 1996 Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64, signed by Mario creator and “father of modern gaming” Shigeru Miyamoto, has sold for £8,450 (roughly $11,308.34).
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