Everyone has to start somewhere. Its just "back in my day..." its really weird to talk to people who didn't grow up with the NES. I'm sure everyone has their war stories about the old NES days - blowing on carts to getting them to work, no save states, all kinds of stuff. Ya missed out - and there's really no going back to be honest. I'm sure I feel the same about people who grew up on Atari (I've never touched one).