I'm with you on the age thing, Pole Position was pretty current for me too. It is amazing what has happened in our lifetimes with digital computation and electronics. Truly amazing. We are very much the pivotal generation too, a very unique perspective. Like being born at the turn of the industrial revolution. My friend's son who is 10 couldn't understand how people communicated without text messages and couldn't believe my high school had one computer!
As for the games, cool aren't they?! After more Googling I have discovered they are "electromechanical arcade games". I'd love to make let alone play them!