COLLECTOR’S CORNER
READERS TAKE US THROUGH THE RETRO KEYHOLE
SONIC PASTA CANS
“Food items are both oddities and very difficult to come across. As silly as they are, I’m very glad that I have them. I don’t know if I enjoyed the taste at the time, but it’s a nice little nostalgic memory from my childhood.”
PAID: $30 FOR THE FIRST ONE, $10 FOR THE SECOND ONE
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
“There’s nothing special about it, except that it’s the first videogame I owned. The one thing that I’m not proud of is that I put one of the Nintendo cereal
Legend
Of
Zelda
stickers on the back and wrote my name on it, but I can’t take it off.”
PAID: GIFT
SEGA VISIONS COLLECTION
“I love paging through these, they’re really great for when I plan articles or podcasts and I want to talk about what people were saying at the time. I wish I could scan them, but I know you kind of have to
chop them up and I’m not prepared for that.”
PAID: $350 OVER SEVERAL YEARS
NAME: Barry Harmon
LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois, USA
FAVOURITE GAMES: Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Shenmue II, Jet Set Radio, Yakuza
FAVOURITE SYSTEMS: Genesis, Dreamcast
WEBSITE: www.segabits.com
JUST A FEW BITS
Barry Harmon’s haul is a Sega treasure trove