Yes.

I remember going to the local swapmeet to buy Atari 2600 games by the dozen with my weekly allowance.

I remember the extreme joy I had on xmas morning opening my NES action pak + Ice Climber+ LoZ (gold cart) .

I remember the countless hours of playing it for the next 6 years until I sold it.

I also had the first 12 issues of Nintendo Power. Loved reading the stories of people's NES going through the most extreme conditions, like fire, and still working.

I was born in 1990, but I played all of the old 80's games the first 4 years of my life until I got a Sega Genesis... and then I played both systems until I was 7 and got a Playstation. I still take out my old NES every now and then, blowing in those old cartridges for a good old bit of nostalgia. Some of my fondest memories were going to convenience stores and renting old games that I would later go out and buy, since stores were getting rid of the old NES games they had rented out dirt cheap.

Nope.

My parent's hadn't even gone into the process of making me yet.

Someone that works at Facebook remembered it too :P

Oh - and Marvel as well

back then it was "the 80's - decade of the NES" lol

Started in the 70's in the Arcades

I feel sorry for the kids of today in that they will never hear the bass sounds of 60 old Arcade machines all being played at the same time. The smell of electricity crackling around the old wooden cabinets was unforgettable.

People crowding around the local champ, as he defends his hi score against a rival.

The excitement of pressing a new note into the change machine. The frustration when it keeps rejecting and the joy when it eventually realises your not going to give up and the coins rain down into the hopper.

It sadly is all gone, many things are better for it. However in many ways it will never be equalled.

My faves from yesteryear

Qbert
Pac Man
Asteroids
Space Invaders
Scramble
Tempest
Robotron
Marble Madness
Ghosts and Goblins
Zaxxon

and the best game ever created

Defender

Yes, though I also started in the 70's and continued through 80s.

Given college and girls, I played more in 70' and early 80's then I did 90's, for sure.

@rol: I *think* there was a "lord of the rings" game I played on the Odyssey 2, but outside of that and some pong variations, don't remember much else about it.

Ah, gaming in the 80s. I remember it well. And I'd like to see at least the latter half come back. But that's just wishful thinking, I guess. From Pac-Man to Galaga to Super Mario Bros, and of course, the rest of the NES games from that point...

I hadn't even thought about arcades, but damn you hit it right on the head here.  Used to be a place called "Aladdin's Castle" that I would play at everytime my mom went to mall.  New games always had a monitor on top of the cabinet so crowds could watch people play.

I remember the first time I beat Dragon's Lair on that machine, with a large crowd watching; man I felt like the king of the world.  Cost me a small fortune to learn all the moves, but at my age then...worth every quarter.