Yeah, the good old days. Nowadays, I fire up this year's Tecmo Super Bowl on my emulator and get in a game in like 20 minutes. If you are interested, there is an online community that continues to talk about TSB and created ROMs each year.
TecmoBowl.org - TecmoBowl.org
I have an OG Xbox that I'll fire up NCAA on from time to time. NCAA was more my speed over Madden. I've been tossing around the idea of a PS4/XOne for a while now to play Madden and other games. The kids have a Wii U, so that for now gets my video game fix. But for the most part, I'm content playing old NES, SNES, Genesis games on an emulator.