The Hangtab: The Tiny Cardboard Tab That Can Date (and Double the Value of) an NES Box
Every toy aisle in 1986 had a wall of pegboard, and every NES box hung from it by a little cardboard notch punched into the
Every toy aisle in 1986 had a wall of pegboard, and every NES box hung from it by a little cardboard notch punched into the
Somewhere in a rec room in 1985, a kid feeds a gray cartridge into a top-loading NES, flips the power switch, and waits through a
Somebody posted a Super Mario Bros. cartridge graded a flawless CGC 9.8 last month and watched it sit for two weeks without a real offer.
A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for three million dollars in June 2026. Not at a boutique collectibles show, either — at Heritage
If you owned an NES in the mid-1980s, there’s a good chance you never actually bought Super Mario Bros. You just had it. Nintendo packed