I'm in pretty close to the same boat. But one thing I've noticed looking back - the games we played in our childhood and early teens were very different than the games my brother-in-law grew up on, and he's only 8 years younger than me.

For example, I had no problem setting my Atari games down as a child; there's only so many rounds of Pac-Man I could stand even then. Had I been inducted into gaming with Super Mario World and Final Fantasy II instead, well, my parents would have had a much harder time of it.