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You can use a PC to play a lot of games as well. To be honest the use of a video game console is a bit redundant giving the advances in computing technology, but consoles have exclusive titles to keep themselves going.

I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and people were complaining about their teenage son playing too much Quake or Unreal Tournament, but it’s on the parents to set limits. I guess it’s easier to get sucked in since gaming is a lot more mainstream and less of a geeky thing now than it was back then.

I stopped around my mid 20s for the most part because things like relationships and having a family are more important than keeping up to date with increasingly mediocre video games.

During the early to mid 1990s, when home computers were fairly new, I did spend some time with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and I believe Quake was just coming on the scene. Those were computer games that I loaded with floppy disk. My wife did a little bit of Myst during that time as well. Our children were just babies then and we were mostly looking for some distraction while the other was taking care of the babies.

I realized at that time that these games were extremely addictive and that those with consoles (i.e. Playstation; Atari) were especially addictive. So we vowed never to bring those into our home. Now our kids did end up doing computer games but we never brought a console into the house and I think we were the better for it.

Speaking for myself, the last video game I played was back in 1995 and it was either Quake or Doom II.

During the 1980s, I did the Space Invaders, Pac-man, Galaxia, etc., but that took a lot of quarters at the arcade!