I too was a part of the C-64 revolution. I remember upgrading to a 450 baud modem and thinking I was the absolute shit.
I recently downloaded a C-64 emulator and a massive file of thousands of games, I actually spent quite a few hours playing one of my old favorites, basically a text D&D style dungeon crawler called Oubliette:
When I first played this game, a friend of mine in Grade 8 had bought the datasette version that took 45 minutes to load!