A rare copy of Super Mario Bros 3. just sold at auction for $US156,000, or $215,000 in Aussie dollars. This makes it the most expensive copy of a game ever sold worldwide.
N-Spade Card Game combinations Here are the eight different combinations used throughout Super Mario Bros. 3 In the N-Spade Card games, the board used is chosen randomly from a selection of eight combinations according to the number of points you have at the time, but it will ALWAYS match one of the eight setups below.
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Hardly a challenge once you know all the patterns.
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Three Super Mushroom Cards will net you a 2-Up, three Fire Flowers will net you a 3-Up, and three Invincibility Starmen will net you a 5-Up. This means that c) is a very useful trick for gaining.
Get to World 1-2 as Raccoon Mario, with the tail. Climb the hill at the beginning and jump over the horizontal pipe. Stand there for a bit and a whole bunch of Goombas will start walking out of the.
Super Mario Bros. 3 cheats, Glitchs, Tips, and Codes for NES. When you have 3 star cards in a row you will get 5 lives. Run towards the lava untill the game starts making a ringing noise.
The game was sold by Heritage Auctions last week, with the bidding opening at $US62,000. A total of twenty bidders got involved before it finally hit its record-breaking sale price.
This particular copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 is particularly special. It has a rare box design where 'Bros.' is right justified, slightly obscuring one of Mario's hands. Later copies of the game moved the lettering closer to the centre:
But while this is cool, it has been seen recently. A copy with the same right-hand justification was sold in July for just $US38,400, or $52,700.
What really made this copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 stand out (and pay out) is the condition it's in. The game, which originally released in 1990 for the NES, was sealed and earned itself a Wata 9.2 A+ rating. Comparatively, the July copy only received a Wata 9.0 A.
Wata is a team of industry experts that provides independent grading of retro video games.
'This started as a hobby for us. Now video game collecting has evolved into a business with significant investment value. There are professional, independent services to grade baseball cards, comic books, coins and other collectibles. The business of video game collecting needs and deserves a similar professional, independent grading service,' the Wata website states.
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Rare Pokemon game also sold
The same auction also ushered in the sale of the most expensive Pokemon game in the world. It was a sealed copy of Pokemon Red for GaneBoy from 1998. It had a Wata 9.8++ rating and sold for $US84,000, or $115,300.
According to Heritage auctions, this was four times the game's predicted pre-sale estimate.
N-Mark Spade Panel
First appearance
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Latest appearance
Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition (2010)
N-Mark Spade Panels[1], also known as Matching Game Panels[2], Card Matching Games[3], Matching Game spaces[4], or N-Spades[5], are Spade Panels in Super Mario Bros. 3 that appear on the world map every 80,000 points gained, and they allow Mario or Luigi to play a card game where they must flip cards to match pairs of images with only two mistakes allowed before exiting the game. When the next 80,000 points are earned, the player can resume the game until completed. For each card pair successfully matched, the player gets that prize for their inventory, for a total of nine prizes per game.
Prizes[edit]
10 Coins (1)
20 Coins (1)
Super Mushroom (2)
Fire Flower (2)
Starman (2)
1-up (1)
All Combos[edit]
The game randomly selects one of the eight predefined configurations. Here are the possible combinations. The fourth, fifth, and sixth from the left on the bottom row will always be the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman respectively.
Names in other languages[edit]
Language
Name
Meaning
Japanese
Nマークスペードパネル[6] N Māku Supēdo Paneru
N-Mark Spade Panel
References[edit]
^Super Mario Bros. 3 English instruction booklet, page 22.
^Nintendo Power Volume 13, page 10.
^Super Mario All-Stars Player's Guide, page 110.
^The Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Player's Guide, page 11.
^Hodgson, David S J. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 23.
^Super Mario Bros. 3 Japanese instruction booklet, page 19.
Super Mario Bros. 3 / Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
Protagonists
Mario • Luigi • Princess Toadstool • Toads • Kings
Bosses
Boom Boom • Big Boo* • Fake Bowser* • Koopalings (Larry Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Wendy O. Koopa • Iggy Koopa • Roy Koopa • Lemmy Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa) • Bowser
