Wow, almost like those "what was popular when you were born" type things. Lol
One way to look at it though, you were at the right age to get these games cheap at yard sales and such.
I was born in 1976 so I was just the right age to pay full price for games like this. I was lucky though, I had a few friends and we would all trade games around so no one friend had to buy everything that came out.