By April 2018, Grand Theft Auto V had sold 90 million units to the tune of $6 billion since its September 2013 release.
Beyond the land of video games, an actual person paid $311,800 for a holographic Charizard Pokemon card which would've had him negotiating trades at any lunch table like Rich Paul in 1999, back in March.īeyond reselling pieces of nerd history, the past decade has been a complete restructuring of seemingly unchangeable tentpoles of popular culture.
Days before a factory-level sealed copy of Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 million, a rare copy of The Legend of Zelda sold for a then-record $870,000. Outside of its historical significance, Super Mario 64's sale price was buoyed by this past decade showing how nerd culture has left the Dungeon and Dragons basement parties and obscure corners of message boards into the definitions of popular culture. Michael Jordan had hair as a rookie and was a member of the Washington Wizards in his final game, so a card and jersey from those respective times are more commemorations of moments that changed over time rather than relics of a past that continues to change the present. Super Mario 64 quite literally represents the rebirth of one of the most recognizable characters in the history of global entertainment. Around the world, Mario has looked how he's looked in Super Mario 64 longer than his 2D predecessors in its 36-year history. It was the first Super Mario game with 3D gameplay, a fact made more poignant since it was released in 1996 and subsequently became the base look of all Mario games going forward. Then, there's the fact that Super Mario 64 is arguably the most important video game of the last 25 years.
That means the auctioned copy's was as good as if it never left the factory back in 1996 when the game was released. Expert video game grading company Wata Games graded the condition of the purchased Super Mario 64 at a 9.8 A++ Sealed rating, according to Heritage Auction in a statement. For those confused how a video game you can buy for less than $20 on Amazon sold for more than the price of a home in most places in America, the auction house points to two factors: condition and culture.
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