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A Wisconsin store owner uncovered nearly 100 unboxed, reportedly unreleased 1993 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridges in storage. Five of the 97 copies earned a PSA 10/10 rating, a rare feat for Nintendo cartridges, and three top-rated copies are set to go on Goldin Auctions online starting Aug. 14, with potential values well into six figures or more given recent high prices for mint-condition Mario items.
Found in a Wisconsin storage, nearly 100 rare Nintendo cartridges—an unknown version of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt—with unique labels, screws, and boards, three are headed to auction and could fetch millions, and some are PSA 10 graded; a seller says they were to be melted down for gold but were not destroyed.
A storage box in Waukesha, Wisconsin contained nearly 100 copies of a previously unknown variant of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt for the NES, printed two years after the last known run with different labels and hardware. Some cartridges are in pristine condition and have PSA grades; three are headed to auction and could fetch millions, with the seller claiming they were set to be melted down for gold but were not destroyed.
A man was arrested for using a Nintendo Duck Hunt gun to hold up a convenience store for $300. Crimes committed using fake guns are on the rise and can carry similar consequences as if a real gun was used. This has been an ongoing problem since the mid to late 1980s, with a research project initiated by the U.S. Congress in 1990 finding that 15% of all robberies were committed with an imitation gun.