Kicker - Video game investment

NICK EICHER, HOST: Historically, money you invest in the stock market may double every 7 to 10 years. So if you invested $50 in 1987—something like $1,600 would be a pretty good return.

But if you invested that $50 in a Nintendo game, and had the restraint not to open it, you probably got a slightly better return.

A factory sealed copy of one of Nintendo’s early hits just sold at auction.

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The sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda just sold at action for—are you ready for this—$870,000.

That’s about 17,000 times what the seller originally paid for the game.

That smashed the previous record for a sealed video game cartridge. An early copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for $660,000 back in April.

Past performance, as they say, is no guarantee of future results.

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