I literally LOL'd at this one! :)

Let's make you feel young again. I've been gaming longer than you've been alive.

Yeah, watching the Beatles perform on Ed Sullivan. Mom let me stay up for this in exchange for willingly taking an afternoon nap.

Riding around my neighborhood on my bike singing, "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" at the top of my lungs.

Bringing a red plaid metal lunchbox with a thermos to school each day. Almost everyone had a lunchbox.

Kennedy was President. One of my earliest childhood memories is the sound of the drums and watching his funeral procession on a black and white television with my parents.

Being afraid I would have to go to Vietnam when I got older.

There was no such thing as computers in peoples houses of any kind. It wasn't something I recall ever even imagining. There was no such thing as video games.

45 Records.

My mom playing Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass records.

"I'll get it!" when the rotary dial phone rang.

The song "Abraham, Martin and John."

Kent State and this photo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Kent_State_massacre.jpg

Neil Young's song, "Ohio"

Those things come to mind as I think about growing up in the 60's.

Haha.

Well, I plead guilty too. :p

Oh, my God. I almost forgot...

GUMBY!!!
G.I. Joe was introduced in 1964. I had him and the very cool footlocker full of gear too. :D

Here's another one. Going to drive-in movies with my parents in our station wagon. In particular I remember one night my parents taking us to see the film "Bananas" by Woody Allen. That would have been in 1971 or so when the movie came out.

I was too little to know what was going on but the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when I was a child. What I do remember though was nuclear fallout shelter symbols in our schools. Strange to think now that they actually believed that gathering in an elementary school and hiding under desks was going to save us if we were bombed.

Coke in glass bottles.

Orangina is still around.

That's still the only way to get good Coke.

Hehe, they're pretty rare in Germany since a long time now. 99% of Coke is sold in plastic bottles.

Ah, this is in US. You get Mexican Coke, that was made and bottled in Mexico, using real sugar rather than HFCS. I'm not sure what the recipe is in Germany.

This reminds me of a true story that I've shared before, so if I already shared it here, sorry.

But my grandfather is credited with inventing the TV remote control. (OK, if one looks up the facts one might not find my grandfather's name listed anywhere but let me finish. LOL)

This was, IIRC, late 1960's. My grandfather had his favorite chair positioned right beside the wood stove (and yes, the kitchen had a wood stove that they did all their cooking and yes they had an outhouse) about 4 or 5 feet from the TV, and he liked to whittle.

So, he got a long branch from a tree, and whittled the end of it to nearly perfectly fit onto the tuner knob, and he would sit in his chair, reach out that stick and turn the tuner to change the channel.

And when the rest of the family first saw that we couldn't stop laughing. I remember a couple of my uncles making fun of him not wanting to walk 4 feet to change the channel. In hindsight though, pretty smart dude. Sometimes at family reunions, this topic still comes up LOL

Here are some of my fond ones:

The Greatest American Hero
Transformers (before it was called G1)
Masters of the Universe
Blackstar
Bravestarr
MASK (yes I had Bolder Hill)
Silverhawks
Rock Lords
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Bonkers (candy)
Blake's 7
Commadore 64/128
TI-99a
Donkey Kong (the original one)
The Simpson's Arcade Game
Battle of the Planets
Voltron
Macross
Kamen Rider Black/Black RX/J/ZX
Astroboy
The Legend of Zelda/Zelda II The Adventure of Link
Doctor Who (Tom Baker - Sylvester McCoy)
Darkwing Duck
Ducktails
Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (what became Power Rangers)
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
The Real Ghostbusters
Filmation's Ghostbusters (and the live action that it's based on)
Gummi Bears
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Return of the Jedi (IN theaters)
Dungeons & Dragons (the series)
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books
Vic the Vampire books (suck it Twilight)
Mr. Boogady

Probably tonnes more I'm just not thinking of, but that's a size-able chunk.

I remember when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out. I didn't see it in a multiplex. No, I saw it in a large movie theater with one big screen, with many seats. It played there for over a year. Of course such things don't exist anymore.

I remember playing Pong.
And I remember we bought it at Sears, because that is where America used to shop, there was no Walmart.

I remember not using debit cards.

I remember spending hours in a record store (usually Tower Records).

I remember using an E ticket for an E ticket ride.

I remember buying games at stores: Egghead, B Daltons, and the werehouse, all gone.

I remember walking to school at 7 years old. This just doesn't happen anymore.

You bastards! I know alot of these and collect vinyl records... I am only 28! Bastards the lot of you! :D