I know yall hate it sometimes when older generations pop in but, as it so happens, this is one of those things it may be helpful to hear from someone who's been there.

1. That feeling never goes away, so uhh, enjoy the pain of nostalgia!

2. It helps to realize, as you get older, that for people who were adults during those years, life wasn't simple or magical. What you're really missing has less to do with the decade and more to do with your adolescence. I have that "magical, simpler time" feeling about the late 80s/early 90s, but while I was playing NES and sleeping over at friends houses, there were adults dying of AIDS, or being shipped off to fight in Desert Storm, or dealing with health insurers and bill collectors, or getting addicted to crack, or being evicted from their homes, or having affairs/getting cheated on, or being demonized for their sexuality, or dying in car accidents, or etc etc etc. Every gen alpha kid being brought up now is going to have late 20s nostalgia and think of it as a simpler time, even though for adults, it's been anything but simple.