BREAKING NEWS: National Video Game Scandal Deepens As Purchaser of Historic Super Mario Bros. Game Is Revealed to Have Represented Himself As Co-Founder of Company That Graded It and Set Its Value

RETRO has evidence—in the form of Richard Lecce's own words—that he was a WATA co-founder with Deniz Kahn and Kenneth Thrower, the two men who set the value of Lecce's historic Super Mario Bros. game.

{Update, 3:13 PM ET, 8/29/21: Important new information augmenting this article has been published in a new RETRO article. The article is entitled, “A Major Scandal at the Heart of a New ‘Alternative Asset Class’ Market Is Clearly About Something Other Than Vintage Video Games.”}

{Update, 4:16 AM ET, 8/27/21: In a statement by Heritage Auctions published…