The joys of growing up in the 80's/90's when mobiles were nowhere near as common as they are nowadays and social networking didn't exist; I don't think many families had PC's, let alone dialup internet connection.
I couldn't contact my school mates via text or social networking. If I suddenly decided I wanted to meet up and go down the park with a mate I had to walk/cycle round their house and see if they were home. If they weren't I'd go round another mates house. If all my mates were out I had to choose between either going home or going down the park on the off chance I might bump into some of them in town.
My first games consol was a Spectrum; if I remember rightly I had a 48k, a 128k and Sinclair ZK in all before progressing to a SNES. None of these modern things that can also play DVD's and connect to the internet or whatever else it is that they can do
