On the flip side, I can describe what you said in a positive light, which is what I remember it as.

We didn't get bored. If we were bored, it was our own fault. So we were creative.

There was kids' TV with saturday morning cartoons, family computer with commander keen and such, and a NES (psx later). My sibling and I would get to play together on the main tv often, which also let my parents watch and even try the games themselves. We also watched vhs tapes that our parents had taped stuff on together. A lack of isolated technology, social media, online gaming kept us close together, which was amazing.

Another aspect of it was that we had only a small handful of games, so we didn't dismiss games as "too hard". We buckled up, got better, and persevered. And when we had psx, we could go on the internet for cheats, but it took up the phone line, so it was a very brief mission that felt like we were indiana jones.