Barry Evans, inside the ultimate Sonic game room and museum

If I was to play any kind of a character in any Sonic Gamer movie

I would love to be Tales because I'd want to be Sonic's best buddy. He was cool, he's like edgy

He had that wowness factor. Faster than Mario, the Hedgehog with Attitude

Hello, I'm Barry Evans, and welcome to yesterday's Sonic 1992's Game Room and Museum

It was a new thing for 1991

So I was 23 years old. My best friend, Manuel Gonzalez, just got a new apartment

and he bought a Sega Genesis, and I didn't know it. And the first thing I heard was the Sega

And it was like, that's kind of funny that the game kind of sings out at you

We started playing it for a little bit while we took a break, and we loved it so much that the next day

I went out and bought my own Sega Genesis. Sega Genesis does what Nintendo don't

As you walk in, this is the first case you see, and these are some of the very first Sonic

the Hedgehog items I've collected. I started collecting Sonic the Hedgehog merchandise, basically after Sonic the Hedgehog 2 came out because

merchandise started to appear here and there. This item right here is the item that started the entire collection

And it was the Sonic the Hedgehog bubble gum container, which held candy from 1993

Later on, I saw a poster and more toys. I just started decorating my room with it

I said, this is really cool. What was the most weird or interesting item is the mold machine part for the UK Burger King toy

It's an exact mirror image of the toy, so I know that this was the

mold part that made the toy It very heavy so it on the bottom shelf so if it fell over it wouldn shatter the glass And I started thinking it would be great to start recreating my childhood arcade It was called Yesterday

It was a brand-new arcade that opened up in 1981 in our new mall. I wanted to recapture that environment in this room

Things you would never expect to find are Valentine's. Found those at Walmart in 1996

Sega has a dedicated theme park in Japan called Joypolis. These are the tokens that you get to play their redemption games with

Me and my wife, Stacey, had the wonderful opportunity to visit Japan in 2019

and it was the most amazing experience I've ever seen. The Japanese people are so friendly and nice

Everything is spotless and clean, and they celebrate video games there every day, everywhere

Perfect timing. A package came in today. It came from Tokyo, Japan. I'll be very careful with the razor blades

White glove it all. This looks like it's going to be awesome

Anything that says Sega Sonic the Hedgehog is definitely from Japan. Oh my gosh

This is a very rare Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails plush walkie-talkie set

It's got an antenna sticking out of the, the top like a cell phone and you put these earbuds in your ears to be able to talk back and forth

Here Sonic and don forget your buddy tails This is a very exciting addition to the collection There a lot of amazing Sonic the Hedgehog stuff that never sees the U shores The Internet opened up the world for collectors

Oh, they were $1,700. They're very rare. These were actually released in like 1992

This right here is my Sonic the Hedgehog commercial kiosk from Sega

As you can see, I've got Sonic the Hedgehog playing on it, of course. It's a beautiful piece

I made a little modification to it, gave it blue and redactored. red lights to give it more sonic feel

The Toys R Us in Pasadena was remodeling and they actually had it out in a storage

container in the parking lot. They let me have it. I didn't pay a penny for it. I bought

this shirt in 1994 and I went when I had to get my driver's license renewed that year

I made sure I was wearing that shirt and I actually tried to stand taller so it wouldn't get cut out

One of the things I treasure the most in my collection are the commercial signs, posters, and

displays for Sonic the Hedgehog. That came from Denny's. My most favorite one, of course

Being Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is the official, Are You Up to It, poster

My most favorite Sonic game is Sonic the Hedgehog 2. They gave them an unlimited budget to make a better game

a sequel for Sonic the Hedgehog. It was a very first game I ever put money down on or pre-purchased

I remember counting down the days to November the 24th of 1992

which was a Tuesday, and they called it Sonic Tuesday. And it still says, coming to you, November the 24th, 1992

I actually built this in 1993. when Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was still new

To actually play the game, the joystick and all the buttons are hooked to the Genesis

and to start the game you have to drop in a quarter The coin switch is on the start button And of course my most favorite game is in it Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic the Hedgehog lapel pins This one was a corporate pin that they

gave out to employees. I think that was for number one in sales. Working in a museum, I've learned

about temperature and humidity control is very important. If you have any kind of fluorescent lighting

in your collection or game room, get rid of it immediately and replace it with LED because

fluorescent lighting emits powerful UV and it will fade and destroy all your items

This is the crown jewels of my collection, the Sonic and Tail statues from Toys R Us flagship stores

in 1994. I actually kept after the store managers for almost a decade. 2001, they called and said

hey, if you want these statues, please come get them right now because we're remodeling. And I

slipped out of work and went picked them up before they changed their mind. The Sonic movies

have been perfect. I love them very much. When the first The first Sonic trailer came out and everybody saw the appearance of Sonic, everybody was like

what is this? This is terrible. It would kind of look like me if I was painted blue

And I really believe that they didn't do it over, the movie would not have been a success

It was just incredible to have Guinness World Record, give me vindication from my collection

To get it was no easy feat. It was a lot of work

It took three weeks of eight to ten hour days to catalog just the Sonic the Hedgehog items alone

in this room. To have my collection recognized by Guinness World Records is a life-fulfilling event to me