Subject: My messed up, scattered 80s memory

I'm 25 (b.1978)  I was born in the heart of the disco era.  I grew up playing with toys at 2(1980) to 11(1989).  I never cared about the adolescent and adult concerns to the 80s...really I remember a lot of stuff, but I liked playing with my toys.  I basically, REALLY, came of the age of rememberance in the 90s.  I was big into rap and techno music.  Now I'm a music producer, and I have tons of old records from the 70s and 80s.  After listening to them, I realized that....wow....I'm sooo glad I never got into the stuff that others my age did.  But I do feel old, because we had an Atari game console, Beta, and VHS.  I remember back in '86 when those electric lightning balls came out for home stereos. It was like $600.  Now you can get 'em at Walmart for like $20.  That's really about it.  I also remember the Hypercolour T-shirts from the early 90s.  Those shirts were soo cool at the time.  Like with music, it's funny how teens like old rap music, like NWA, 2 Live Crew, and such.  I feel sort of younger than some teens when they start talking about old 60s and 70s bands like The Doors, Led Zepplin, Phish, Greatful Dead, the black Hippie dude(I can't remember his name), and even worse.....Ozzie Ozbourne.  I never listened to their music, so when couple of my friends asked me about 'em, I was like.....I don't know!  They were like....dude, you should know of 'em. So I say....I wasn't born in '68 or '58....jeez!  They know more about old stuff than I do and I'm like..okay man.  I don't remember a lot before 1988-89 because most of my childhood, I was sick and constantly in hospitals.  I basically grew up with the computer, we had an old 1983 Apple comp. and I was always playing games on it.  I do however, remember Nintendo and Super NES.  I remember feeling old one time when I told a friend that I was on the internet since it came into style in 1992(back when it was called ISH).  She was like....I was only 8.  So I told her to shut up because she was not helping me out here..lol  I don't know, I guess I have a lot of scattered memories, but yeah, I guess was an 80s kid.  But like I said earlier, I was playing with toys and always sick, so I couldn't really live the life of typical 80s kids around my age.  Oh, and I do remember constantly watching kung fu movies!