> Well, when I was 8 there was no NES. Those Legos were my favorite toy, and had been
> for years already. First ones I got came in a can. At 8, I don't think special blocks
> had progressed beyond wheels. I might have gotten one of those really weak motor sets
> at that age. Can it even move the battery box?
Ditto on all counts. My parents felt that videogames were mindless entertainment, often violent, and non-educational, so they never bothered buying us Nintendo's and Sega's. (GI Joe was banned for much the same reason.) Instead, they bought computers: TI-99/4A, Laser128 EX+ (Apple II-clone), 386-486-Pentium, until I finally could afford (partially) my first, a Pentium II. Regardless, we did have some games for the TI and Laser (mostly arcade/arcade clones), and as soon as I knew my way around the 386/486 I was buying games, asking for games, and bootlegging games (notably Doom and Duke) and hiding them in hidden folders on the PC... but we did manage to sneak the occasional Nintendo/Sega/etc. games at friends and relatives, more of a guilty pleasure.
I blame them for my retrogaming fixation, surely I wouldn't have been as hopefully lost to retrogaming had I actually had a chance to play! 
... and I was also a HUGE Lego maniac. Still buy some occasionally, although more for the model-building than creative-building aspect.
- Stiletto
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