Artist Tom Jung's 1977 painting introduced the world to the look and feel of George Lucas' blockbuster adventure. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Darth Vader's reign has ended. For a brief time, he owned the mantle of "Most Expensive Piece of Star Wars Memorabilia," but before you could say "more wealth than you can imagine" he fell once again, with a new challenger rising to take his place. It was only this past September that a verified screen-used lightsaber hilt wielded by the Dark Lord of the Sith in and set a sales record by fetching $3.65 million.

A collection of extremely rare Magic: The Gathering cards are expected to fetch as much as $180,000 when they are auctioned off on Friday, April 21. Included among the cards that are going up for auction is a complete 310-card set of "Legends," the third expansion pack sold by Magic: The Gathering, which was released in June 1994. The auction will also feature a factory-sealed unlimited starter deck, which is expected to sell for at least £10,000-12,000, or about $15,000 U.S. dollars. A starter deck is a random collection of 60 cards from a set. Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game produced by Wizards of the Coast.

A sealed, mint condition copy of the video game Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for more than $1.5m (£1.1m), making it the most expensive video game ever sold. The game cartridge, dating from 1996, was in high demand at US auction house Heritage Auctions for its "historical significance, rarity and condition" since there are "fewer than five copies" in such good condition. Super Mario 64 remains one of most critically acclaimed video games of all time, with its three-dimensional platforming helping to sell millions of Nintendo 64 consoles upon its launch. "It seems impossible to overstate the importance of this title, not only to the history of Mario and Nintendo, but to video games as a whole," said Valarie McLeckie, a video games specialist for Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale. The cartridge sold on Sunday had received a 9.8 A rating by the video game collectible firm Wata, which means it is "like new", in near-perfect condition and with an intact seal.

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."

Earlier this year, a nearly perfect copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES sold for $660,000. Now, a mere three months later, The Legend of Zelda has shattered that record. On Friday, a rare, early production version of the NES classic sold for $870,000 at auction. Outside of a single sealed copy from its original manufacturing run, it's believed the game that sold this week is one of the earliest known sealed copies of The Legend of Zelda in existence. According to Heritage Auctions, the cartridge sold on Friday comes from the game's "NES-R" production run.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. This definitely counts as a high score. While "Super Mario Brothers" is arguably the most famous game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, "The Legend of Zelda" was also very popular. Many people who grew up in the '80s probably remember owning the bright gold cartridge.

Time to check your attic for sealed old video games. An unopened Super Mario Bros. video game released in 1985 for Nintendo's NES console broke the world record for the most ever paid for any video game, according to Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. A bidder, who wished to remain anonymous, snapped up the game for $114,000 during an auction conducted by Heritage Friday during its Comics & Comic Art event, which continues through Sunday. The previous record was set in early 2019 when an unopened copy of the same game sold for $100,150. "The demand for this game was extremely high, and if any lot in the sale could hit a number like that, it was going to be this one," Valarie McLeckie, Heritage video games director, said in a news release.

Bidding for the only known'Nintendo-PlayStation' prototype console - the result of a failed partnership between Nintendo and Sony in 1991 - is already up to $350,000 (£268,000). The super-rare console, which is being sold with a Sony-branded SNES controller and cartridge that enables CD-Rom functionality, only went up for bids on Thursday. Potential buyers have 21 days left to bid on the console, which is being auctioned off by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions on March 6. The collectors' item is a rare artefact from a brief collaboration between the Japanese gaming giants before they took separate paths in the video game market. The rare'SNES-PlayStation' was one of 200 prototypes made - and the rest are thought to be destroyed.

Imagine bidding on a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci via a tap of your fingertips while lying in bed. A decade ago, this scenario would have sounded crazy to a lot of people, but there are plenty of tech companies keen to make it happen. The art market is famously resistant to change, but even established art businesses are feeling the force of new technologies. High rents in art market centres are one reason, as mid-range galleries are increasingly interested in selling online. There is also the need to cater to the next generation of collectors, many of whom are more comfortable browsing a desired collectible on their smartphone rather than walking in to a gallery.