Easy answer!
I loved Sonic from the moment I first got a Sega Genesis back in the fall of 1991, and that reason was to play the new game Sonic The Hedgehog!
If you played it when it was new, you remember it was the first game to have incredible Stereo Sound with great background music. The Zones in Sonic were incredibly detailed! (for 1991)
One day back in 1992, I was at a local drugstore, and on the candy shelf was a little Sonic.. I grabbed one to buy and placed it on my Sega Genesis...
From there, as I saw more Sonic stuff come out, I decorated my bedroom with it. As my obsession with console games grew, and just started collecting arcade games, I decided I'll keep getting more Sonic stuff to decorate a gameroom "someday"
And Today, here I am!! Happy Joy! ahhheemmmm.... except for this statue fiasco.