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00:00 Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we are looking
00:10 depressingly at our own wallets while we make vague judgements at the 10 most expensive
00:15 video game sales ever.
00:17 For this list we'll be looking at a broad spectrum of high priced video game sales,
00:21 ranging from interesting and noteworthy to record breaking and ludicrous.
00:25 A few ground rules, only one entry per game and try not to cry.
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00:41 Contra A term you're going to hear a lot on this
00:49 list is water score.
00:51 Water W A T A are the leaders in collectible video game grading and certification, and
00:56 it's their graders that decide a games water score based on the condition of the box, seal,
01:02 cartridge and all other elements to the games quality.
01:05 A water score of 9.8 is essentially the highest score available to a retro game, it's rare
01:11 and it's difficult, and one copy of Contra on the NES was awarded this incredibly rare
01:17 9.8 and managed to sell for $150,000.
01:22 The rarity of this particular cartridge is what awarded it such a high sale price.
01:27 I mean most games have imperfections straight off the assembly line so to score a 10 is
01:31 near impossible.
01:38 Twisted Metal This game is in somewhat of a renaissance
01:45 thanks to the Twisted Metal series dropping, but let's jump way back to 1995 when the first
01:51 copies of Twisted Metal on the PS1 were printed.
01:54 The long box was the original style of release for PS1 games, and it lasted less than a year
02:00 before the more well-known CD cases were released.
02:03 In fact it came in a ridged long box which was only used on roughly 49 PS1 games in total
02:09 before it was discontinued.
02:11 But for the low low price of $156,000 somebody was able to get one of these rare copies of
02:18 Twisted Metal with a water score of 9.6.
02:31 Super Mario Bros 3 Another equal sale of a whopping $156,000.
02:44 Now for a price tag like this you'd expect a 9.6 or a 9.8, but this copy of Super Mario
02:50 Bros 3 scored a 9.2.
02:54 Don't get us wrong, this is a great score, but the price tag comes from a very very rare
02:59 imperfection.
03:00 Some initial copies of the game went out before the box art was fixed, and in these very rare
03:05 initial copies the word "Bros" is printed on the left side of the cartridge where it
03:09 obscures Mario's hand.
03:11 Aesthetically it's just a tiny bit off.
03:14 The more well known version has the "Bros" just above Mario's head where it fits much
03:19 nicer.
03:20 This copy had an incredible score for a very rare version of the cartridge, that's why
03:24 you could literally pay the roots to play your birthday party or rent a private plane
03:28 three times, for the same price this game went out for.
03:31 I looked up both those facts and I'm not lying.
03:38 Final Fantasy.
03:45 Price tag doesn't just come down to quality, it also comes down to rarity.
03:49 If two different games scored a 9.8, but one of them has 10 other copies of the game that
03:53 also scored a 9.8, while the other is the only 9.8 to exist, well then obviously the
03:57 single 9.8 is going to sell for significantly more.
04:01 For $204,000 a copy of Final Fantasy on the NES was sold that had a 9.8 Wota score.
04:08 There are no other copies of Final Fantasy that have sold with a higher score than this,
04:13 in fact there are no copies of Final Fantasy for auction at this point in time with a similar
04:17 score at all.
04:18 It's a very real possibility that this might be the last good condition copy of the beginning
04:24 of one of the most popular game series of all time.
04:27 Resident Evil.
04:35 Another of our infamous ridged longbox games sold for a whopping $264,000.
04:42 The game was Resident Evil, the classic that launched a beloved series, and this particular
04:47 sale set a record as the most expensive PlayStation game to ever be sold.
04:52 For a copy of Resident Evil in the ridged longbox to be in your possession means you
04:56 have one of the first production printings of this brilliant game.
05:00 It's so rare in fact that it's known there are less than 10 copies of it in the entire
05:05 world, and with a Wota score of 9.6, wow this is a rare piece.
05:13 Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
05:15 Let's cut to the chase, this game is brutal, but is it $312,000 brutal?
05:22 Apparently so.
05:23 The infamous NES title sold two high priced versions in the same year in 2021.
05:28 The first was with a Wota score of 9.6 unsealed, then came the big daddy 6 months later.
05:34 Completely sealed and with a Wota score of 9.8, this copy of Mike Tyson's Punch Out
05:39 sold for that brutal $312,000 price, and became the only copy of this game to achieve this
05:45 score.
05:46 It's so well preserved in fact that to the untrained eye it looks like it's just come
05:50 straight off the shelf.
05:53 Sonic the Hedgehog.
06:01 When people think Sega, they think Sonic.
06:04 When the Sega Genesis dropped, Sonic was not only one of the best games on the console,
06:09 but probably the most famous.
06:11 Surprisingly though, getting your hands on an original copy of Sonic the Hedgehog on
06:15 the Sega Genesis today is a pretty difficult task.
06:18 That's why for an arguably lower score than other games that sell at this amount, a copy
06:23 of Sonic the Hedgehog with a Wota score of 9.4 sold for an outrageous $420,000.
06:31 The game is completely sealed and in great nick, but $420,000?
06:37 You could buy an apartment with that money.
06:44 The Legend of Zelda.
06:50 Hold onto your hats kids, because we are taking a massive leap in price tag by doubling our
06:55 previous entry and heading straight to $870,000.
07:00 The Legend of Zelda on the NES is a historical gaming collectible, in any condition, in anyone's
07:06 hands.
07:07 This particular copy of The Legend of Zelda that almost sold for $1 million had only a
07:11 Wota score of 9.0.
07:14 This version, known as the No Rev A cartridge, was on sale for only 2 months when the game
07:20 first released.
07:21 Is there a big difference?
07:22 It had 5 screws in it instead of 3.
07:25 To the average person, that is no big deal, but to a collector, that means that this copy
07:29 of The Legend of Zelda is as close to the original version of the game as they will
07:33 probably ever get, and in the best condition they'll probably ever see.
07:39 Super Mario 64.
07:43 Super Mario 64 has a significant amount of cultural weight, and this is something that
07:48 does come into play when price is decided.
07:51 The game revolutionised platformers, and was the first 3D rendering of Mario that players
07:56 had ever seen.
07:57 This particular copy of Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64 is the highest Wota scored
08:02 version of the game known to exist.
08:05 Coming in at an incredible 9.8 and totally sealed, this 25 year old game that looks like
08:10 it just came off the production line, sold for a teeny tiny 1.56 million.
08:17 That is so much money.
08:24 Super Mario Bros.
08:29 Arguably the greatest video game of all time was Super Mario Bros. on the NES.
08:34 This game revolutionised the console and industry, and created the most famous video game character
08:40 to ever exist.
08:42 With a Wota score of, you guessed it, 9.8 and completely sealed, one copy of Super Mario
08:48 Bros. that is believed to be one of the first ever printed, sold at auction to an anonymous
08:52 seller for 2 million dollars.
08:56 For my Australian brothers and sisters, that's more than 3 million dollars.
09:00 For my beautiful Brits, that's 1.5 million pound.
09:03 For my Denmark homies, that's over 13 million Danish krones.
09:07 That's a lot of krones.
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