New York (AFP)
A cartridge for the old Nintendo NES consoles of the legendary video game "The Legend of Zelda" was auctioned for a "record" sum of $ 870,000 on Friday, auction house Heritage Auctions announced in a statement.
"This is the centerpiece" of this sale which takes place partly online until Sunday and which includes "443 lots," Eric Bradley, a spokesperson for the Dallas-based company, told AFP.
Dated 1987, the coin was still sealed in its original packaging.
For the auction house, this is a "world record for a video game", ahead of the sale, last April, still at Heritage Auctions, of a cartridge of the Super Mario Bros video game for Nintendo NES dating back to of 1986 ($ 660,000).
Heritage has not communicated the identity of the buyer (s).
Mixture of adventure, action and exploration in a universe of magic, Zelda is one of the most significant titles in the history of video games and a figurehead for Nintendo, which still has it. catalog for its Switch consoles.
For several years now, retro video games have enjoyed growing success with nostalgic gamers.
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