MARION — For many youngsters at the Marion Music Hall on Saturday, Jan. 20, the technology they faced was old and unfamiliar — but for those kids’ parents, the Music Hall full of vintage video games, brought back years of memories.

Andrew Apperson, a social studies teacher at Old Rochester Regional High School, remembers his first video game console — the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES — which was released in 1986.

Now, 38 years later, his 7-year-old son Abraham Apperson played the NES’s original “Duck Hunt” video game, complete with a vintage light gun that let him shoot the ducks on the screen of a cathode-ray tube monitor.

Even though “Duck Hunt” is “old, old, old,” according to Abraham Apperson, it was still “really fun.”

The collection of older video games, which included titles like 1991’s “Super Mario World” and 2006’s “Wii Sports,” was brought to Marion by Peter “MountAintop” Dekant, co-owner and manager of One Up Games, a community gaming center in Plainville.

This program was brought to Marion in partnership with the Elizabeth Taber Library.

According to Dekant, One Up Games has an “on-the-go” portion of the business that brings video games to about 300 libraries up and down the East Coast, with 125 in Massachusetts alone.

The company was founded in 2017 with the mission to “bring gamers together.”

“Not just in a multiplayer fashion but physically,” said Dekant. “Even though they may be on different screens, having them shoulder-to-shoulder and playing together is something we wanted to do … we’re all equals when it comes to gaming.”

For Dekant, the magic happens at events like this, where video games put smiles on the faces of both younger and older residents.

“It's literally people coming together for the love of gaming,” he said. “And it's what propels us forward.”

Brandon Terrien took his children, 2-year-old Jonah and 4-year-old Marlie, to Saturday’s event.

“A lot of these older games are as appealing to these guys as they were to me when I was a kid,” said Brandon Terrien. “There’s a similarity to games like Mario that’s easy for them to get.”

While Saturday’s event focused on the history of video games, Brandon Terrien hopes that the future of video games lies in accessibility.

“I think that video games have become more mainstream. As people like me become old, I think you’ll see video games hitting new demographics … in nursing homes as a tool for people with Alzheimer's to activate memories … and games for younger kids,” he said. “I hope every game isn’t just made for 13-year-olds forever.”