I can relate to a lot of this (age-wise, family income-wise)...my family had a big hulking desktop computer we kept in a big wobbly hutch thing in the basement, and I remember spending a lot of time playing pinball and Monopoly on it with my dad and brother. There was also a golf game that we played quite a bit; I remember there were "commentators" who would make little comments after every shot, and one of them was voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait for some reason...very weird.

A little later, my brother and I played a lot of Doom, which I'm surprised my parents let us get...I think maybe it's because the whole world of computers/computer games was so new to them, and they didn't really know what to be worried about?

Mostly I used that computer to hang out in a roleplaying chatroom on AOL, though...

Thanks for giving me an opportunity for this reminiscing. :)