OMG! You took us deep into memory lane, and I enjoyed reading this post.
Although I am not a gamer, I rarely played games on the computer or the consol but I do have fond memories of watching my brother and cousins plugin the good old Nintendo style gameing consol and fighiting over who gets to play first.

I did play Dave, PacMan, Ping Pong on the computer and Mario, MK4 and a few other games on the console. It was all so good back in the day.