Colecovision, the first game system I had (when i was but a wee lad)

Dragon Warrior (The step up from coleco to the nintendo, i had no idea that there could be a world inside one of those wonderful cartridges)

Duck Hunt.

Segways. (A new breed of lazyness!)

Bullet Trains (The magnetic ones?)

Dungeons and Dragons. (I wasn't around for the initial, only being 22, but when I discovered it, I found a bunch of friends who were also interested in it, and saved me from SOME of the social pressures of jr. high/ High school.)

The Ramones. (The first time I heard the Ramones, I thought, Holy shit, this is a new kind of music! Wave of the future! of course, the first time i heard them, i was 5, but...)

The Hummer becoming a commercial vehicle. (and, subsequently, people feeling the need to drive decomissioned APC's around Long Island. LA, I could see, but Long Island?)