I also experienced them all first hand. I remember being blown away by my friend's dad's brand new Pong game in about 1976. I still have quite a bit of old 8-

I also experienced them all first hand. I remember being blown away by my friend's dad's brand new Pong game in about 1976. I still have quite a bit of old 8-bit and newer hardware stored away (I've even got one of the earliest five C64's currently known). Truthfully, pulling the old hardware out now is not nearly as satisfying as running an emulator. When I want to relive, say, my teenage days playing Amiga mod disks while I did my homework, it's a pain in the rear to get the old Amiga 2000 up and running, while it is a matter of seconds to fire up the emulator. Last time I dug out my Sun 3/80 and tried to boot it, it led to a weeks worth of repairing hardware, finding a modern compatible AUI ethernet adapter, digging up the old sunos4 install files, and getting it all installed.