COLLECTOR’S CORNER
OFF TO THE RACES
Jon Gage’s collection will have motorheads drooling
READERS TAKE US THROUGH THE RETRO KEYHOLE
VROOM + DATA DISK
“The separate expansion versions make Vroom extremely rare. Made by French developer Lankhor in the early Nineties. The game was bought up by Domark and became the official F1 licensed game for 1993 and beyond.”
PAID: £200+
SEGA RACERS
“My SG-1000, SC-3000 and Mark III titles are some of the oldest in the collection.”
PAID: £60 EACH
BIO
NAME: Jon Gage
LOCATION: Norwich, UK
FAVOURITE GAME: Super Monaco GP
FAVOURITE SYSTEM: PlayStation
COLLECTION WORTH: Estimated at £7,000
TWITTER: @oll_gaming
FORMULA 1
“Good old PS1 F1 with Murray Walker!”
PAID: £40 (1996)
While we’ve often featured collectors who collect games based around specific genres or franchises, we’ve never had a collector like Jon Gage before.
Jon actually has two collections. One has morphed into the Norwich gaming cafe One Life Left the other is focussed around Formula 1 games and it was fuelled by two things. “As a tenyear-old in 1991, my first console was a Sega Master System 2, and with it came my first ever game: Super Monaco GP,” Jon tells us. “Monaco was the one game that made me fall in love with games and indeed, driving games in particular.” That passion for racing was fanned further due to Jon’s father, who introduced him to real-life Formula 1. “I have fond memories to this day of sitting with my dad cheering on Nigel Mansell against the great Ayrton Senna as Murray Walker exclaimed manically as each lap went by.”