I certainly was. I started gaming in the late 70's when my brother and I received an Atari VCS for Xmas. I'm pretty sure it was Xmas 1978. So, beginning in 1978, I started my journey down the path of video game enlightenment, but I didn't discover the concept of retro gaming till 2003. 25 years later. I don't know why, but for some reason, I never really thought about playing older systems. Like, when I had a Genesis, Super Nintendo and such in the early 90's, I never thought about playing my old Atari 2600. It never crossed my mind. In the late 90's when I had a Saturn, N64 and Playstation, I never thought about playing my old NES. In the very late 90's and early 00's, I was playing Dreamcast and Playstation 2, and I never thought about playing a TurboGrafx or a Genesis.
The thought of playing a retro game was so foreign to me. I didn't even know there was such a concept as retro gaming. I thought that anybody that was playing really old games like that, were playing them because they didn't have the $$ for the newer systems. I knew of people that played games like Pac-Man and Asteroids and Galaga on their computers, but that was mostly cause it was just something cool to do on a PC, because you could emulate the game perfectly for free. But I thought it was just one of those temporary things, like listening to old records just to reminisce about the old days for a little while. I never knew that people actually went "retro" and stuck with it.
Anyways, just wondering if any others were late to the whole "retro-gaming" party.