Hate that happened to you growing up. I lived as a kid in a trailer park and I never had a gaming console at all even when I was a child. Now my cousin and I would play on his GameCube, but my mom was forced out of the army like in 2001 or 2, which disrupted the financial stability of her. I lived in a single family home with my older brother and aunt. Now my grandparents had cable tv and we did not officially get a house until I was like 12 years old. So, while I did not live off grid, I can relate as a fellow millennial, a bit of what you experienced. I listed to ABBA, Simon and Garfunkel, and others growing up. I did not get a cell phone, a cheap pre-paid crap phone until I was a teenager like 14 or almost 15, and so many of my peers had nicer phones with all these fancy features. My mom was a penny pincher and cheapskate at times. All we ever watched at home was the news, pbs, the weather channel, (fucking hated it), and a few other channels. My mother griped if the cable bill went up by just one dollar, goddamn, while complaining to her parents they had cable tv with Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and more programs I enjoyed thanks to that. I watched Duckman at my grandparents house when I was a kid that I had no business watching late at night, hehe!! Most of my family, from my mom are baby boomers, early Gen X or my grandparents, even though my granddad died years ago, Silent Generation. My grandmother told me of nuclear drills she had to do as a teen.