Hey all Im abob and im amazed i havent found you all sooner.
Im 38 and from the UK, I grew up in Grimsby and so had easy access to the "Golden Mile". Ffor those that dont know thats a stretch of promenade over a mile in length at Cleethorpes which in the heydays was back to back arcades, and from my age youll realise im old enough to remember the whole lot having nothing but Space Invaders cabs and the odd fruit machine
I lived there till the late 80s so im a bit of a classic games freak, so with all that local i didnt really get into home systems properly until the Megadrive, from there to Amiga and on to PC.