Hey, hows it going?
Good, good.
I have this to offer you.
And this is?
This is the earliest sticker sealed Super
Mario Brothers Nintendo game.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
RICK: That's pretty amazing.
I know some of them go for a lot of money.
Chum?
What?
RICK: Can you come over here and help me for a moment?
CHUMLEE: What's up, Rick?
OK, the guy has a--
I guess this is a really early one?
The earliest print, still sealed,
of Super Mario Brothers in existence.
CHUMLEE: Oh, wow.
Do you mind if I take a look?
Absolutely, sure.
CHUMLEE: Oh, this is the--
yeah, this isn't the shrink wrapped version.
This is the sticker sealed version,
which I don't know too much about,
but I know these are pretty rare.
CUSTOMER: This one also happens to be an incredibly high grade.
Even if the other ones are found,
there's no way it's going to come close to this condition.
RICK: All right, how much do you want for it?
It's a piece of history.
It's something that's hard for me to part with.
But I would sell it for a million dollars.
A million dollars?
Yep.
All right.
That's a lot of money for a video game.
I agree.
It is a lot of money.
I know there's video game collecting going on.
I know I've seen some recent auctions where
I was sort of shocked when, like, those video games sold
for $29,000--
Sure.
--for the cartridges.
But I didn't know the market exists
for six figure games, much less a million dollar game.
From all my research, WATA is the company that grades these.
These are the ones you trust.
So I'm actually going to go call them up and see if I can get
one of their guys down here.
I would really like to get their opinion.
But you know, no offense.
I mean, I just never heard of a video game
going for a million dollars.
And I just don't know if that exists or not.
OK, I will be right back.
OK.
I think Mario hit him on the head with a pipe wrench.
[LAUGHS]
So he wants a million dollars for this thing, which I think
is insane. DENIZ KAHN: Yeah.
I remember it.
And I know why he's asking astronomical money on this one.
This is probably the most significant piece
of video game history that's ever passed
through our grading company.
RICK: OK, and he also said that this was the best condition?
Yeah.
So what makes this special, there's
a lot of different indicators.
First, you're going to see this sticker.
So it's not shrink wrapped.
It's from the test market launch of the NES, as far as we know,
which was only in 1985 and 1986.
No one even knew who Nintendo was.
But back then, they were just another company.
So once they started mass producing these and sending
them across the country, they had
to have something that would last on the shelves
longer, which is also why seeing this in this condition
is just-- it's a complete anomaly.
This is the second print, and it's the earliest known.
There's no other second prints or even first prints
known that are still sealed.
So we don't know the exact number of copies that
were printed in the first test market launch,
but we're estimating it's somewhere
around the 10,000 print run.
And how many of those survived sealed?
One, as far as we know.
RICK: So if this went into an auction today,
your estimate would be?
It's really hard to tell.
It hasn't sold on the open market.
As video games are starting to be viewed
more as art and history, not just these relics of nostalgia,
this is it.
This is the one that started it all.
It's got the trifecta.
It's got rarity.
It's got popularity.
Everyone knows Mario.
And it's got significance to collectors.
But you know, with things like this,
it's high risk, high reward.
I know of firm offers that have been turned down at $300,000.
It goes up from there.
There's no ceiling, really.
RICK: OK, I learned a lot today. DENIZ KAHN: Absolutely.
My pleasure. Anytime.
Good luck.
Thank you.
Well, at first I thought you were crazy.
[LAUGHS]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm literally a little bit shocked
and a little bit speechless.
But realistically, what do you want for it?
I'm asking a million dollars.
There's a big business in these right here.
And I've just been looking into maybe
getting into it a little bit.
But I'm not going to get into it with this kind of figure
to start with.
I understand, I understand.
So have a great day.
I learned a lot.
And obviously, I have a lot of research to do.
Well, thank you for your time.
I appreciate it.
It's good to meet you.
All right, have a good one, man.
Thank you.
I'm OK that no offer was made.
I'm happy to keep the game.
And it's a piece of history, so I'm happy to have it
in my collection.