The far younger and more innocent version of the badass motherfucker that you see today used to spend excessive amounts of time sitting out on the sidewalk having Pokemon battles with the other neighborhood children. He later moved on and became a master Yu-Gi-Oh! duelist after the older kids decided that Pokemon was out of style.
As for video games, I remember Majesty: The fantasy Kingdom Sim being the very first game I owned that wasn't one of those learning games. I spent hours upon hours in my trashed room, on my old ass hand-me-down computer playing that thing. No matter how advanced or high-tech video games games get, Majesty will always have a special place in my heart. It's not that I didn't enjoy the learning games at the time, but you can only go on so many adventures with Reader Rabbit or the Clue Finders before shit starts getting old.
Other than that, an N64 was the very first console me and my brothers ever owned. Still have all my games for it in a old box in my little brother's closet. despite not playing any of them in ages, they helped introduce me to the world of gaming, and I love them all dearly to this day.