What I find interesting is that my generation, GenX, had all of that and then some, but it seems we're overlooked in convos like this.
For gaming, most of us started on Atari Pong, then the Atari VCS (which we got in '79), which morphed into the 2600. But, as you mentioned your gen having, we also got the NES, so Super Mario, Zelda, and alladat was ours as well. I was playing Street Fighter II in the arcades in the spring of '91, right before coming home from college for winter semester. Those same upgrades you mentioned? We were playing them as well. But, as I mentioned elsewhere, while y'all were playing 4-player Goldeneye, I was playing 8 player Doom, then 16-64 player Quake before most of y'all even knew that online gaming even existed. By the time most of y'all were playing pvp online, I was already over a decade in and 3 generations of games deep playing online.
We started out on vinyl, then 8 track, then cassettes, CD, DAT, DCC, MiniDisc, and MP3's. I downloaded my first MP3 in '97 from M_nus Records and used a very early version of Winamp to play it on my 486. One of my boys put me on to Napster in the summer of '99, but I was already getting whole albums from XDCC downloads on IRC and from FTP sites.