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).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.A collection of five Pokémon trading cards inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream sold for £12,350 (roughly $16,524.24).A first-print factory-sealed copy of the Game Boy Advance game Pokémon Emerald, released in Europe in 2005, sold for £4,940 (roughly $6,609.70) – while a sealed copy of 2000’s Pokémon Yellow, released for the Game Boy, sold for £3,640 (roughly $4,870.43).

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Overall, the top ten trading card lots in the auction made a combined £43,940 (roughly $58,793.04) in the same sale.Ewbank’s specialist James Spooner said, “Pokémon are the most collectable of all gaming cards of this type, with a massive global following and collecting base worth tens of billions of dollars.“The majority of lots in this sale sold over estimate – some way over estimate – demonstrating the powerful attraction for both Pokémon, as well as other trading card series.“However, it is the boost in demand and [prices] for retro video games here that ...