Same here. I remember waking up as early as my parents let me (probably around 7) and heading out to meet up with friends. We either had plans to go fishing, build a fort in the woods, or play some kind of sport. Come home to choke down lunch and dinner, and make sure to be home when the street lights turned on. Those were fun times.
My son is 9 and he plays sports year round so he is plenty active. He has a PS4 and enjoys it, but he only gets it for a couple hours on the weekend. If he didn’t have sports, however, there aren’t really a lot of kids in the neighborhood out playing unstructured games like I did as a kid. I was born in ‘79 BTW.