I was born in 1975, which made me a perfect role for an 80's kid.
I grew up during the 80's time era relating to most of the sit-com kids of the 80's such as Who's the Boss, Kate & Alley, Mr. Belvadere, Small Wonder... etc.
I had a chance to sample both Pac-Man & Donkey Kong cereal (liking both quite a bit... not sure because it was video-game related or the taste, however).
I played all systems from the Atari 2600's hay-day to their 99 cent bin in K*B Toys, and peaked at the right time around Nintendo's NES system, aging right along with the other gamers of that era who seemed to grow right along with me, including EGM/GamePro editors & even factual data that shows growing-up gaming had to adjust its metrics from the initial target of kids & teens in the 80's to late teens in the early 90's, to the 20-something crowd in the mid & late 90's.
Now... some stuff STILL seems to cater to my age-group because on shows like Family Guy & Robot Chicken, because Seth MacFarlane & Seth Green are around the same-age, a lot of their shows make pop-culture refrences to 80's stuff that us growing up in that era clearly remember & laugh our ass off about, while others it flies right over their head.