‘Legend of Zelda’ Sells For $870,000
The Nintendo video game is a rare variant from 1987.
DALLAS – It truly is the stuff of legend.
The only copy of The Legend of Zelda from one of the earliest production runs ever offered sold for a jaw-dropping $870,000 Friday at Heritage Auctions in the first signature auction of video games ever held.
“I had a lot of confidence in this game, and, yet, I still feel like the reality of today’s bidding exceeded my vision of how it would play out,” Heritage Auctions Video Games Specialist Valarie McLeckie said.
It is widely believed that the copy sold Friday is one of just two sealed “NES TM” copies graded by Wata. Graded 9.0, it is from a variant of the game that was produced for just a few months in late 1987 before it was replaced by the “Rev-A” variant in early 1988. The “NES R” variant was preceded by just one other variant: the “NES TM” variant, which is the true first production run.
The auction continues with an internet session at 1 p.m. (Central time) Sunday.
More results of Friday's Heritage auction are here.
