Story by Caroline Westbrook

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4. Super Mario Bros game

Let’s be honest, a whole lot of us whiled away far too many hours in the 90s playing Nintendo and one of the most popular games of the decade was Super Mario Bros. The little Italian plumber and his brother Luigi proving so popular they spawned sequels, a spin-off movie (the less said about that one the better) and even a hit single, courtesy of the Ambassadors of Funk featuring MC Mario. We’re not sure any of those will net you any dough, but owning a copy of one of the original games might. Back in 2020, a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros 3 went for $156,000 (£119,000) at auction, according to CNet – a record which was smashed just a few months later when The Verge reports an unused copy of the original game sold on a collectibles site for a cool $2 million (£1.5 million). That’s a lot of moolah for your Mario (Picture: Getty Images)