Mama Mia: Super Mario 64 game rides wave of nostalgia, fetching record $1.56 million

New York – An unopened copy of Nintendo Co.'s Super Mario 64, sold in 1996, fetched $1.56 million at an auction on Sunday, a record price for a single video game, a U.S. auctioneer said. It broke the previous record set Friday of $870,000 for a sealed copy of Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda," according to Heritage Auctions in Dallas. The hefty prices reflect a recent rise in nostalgia among collectors of old games. Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 console is known as the series' first three-dimensional action game. Heritage Auctions described the condition of the auctioned copy as "just so breathtaking that we're really at a loss here."