When my youngest grandson is visiting one of the things he looks forward to doing is spending time with the XBox. He has every auto racing game ever made and can sit for hours choosing, tinkering with and redesigning one car. Maybe one lap around the track or road course to see how it performs and then back to the tinker stage again. He has learned a lot about wind shear, aerodynamic design and application of mathematical information in the process.
He knows everything there is to know about every car made and wants to go to Europe and design cars after college. We do have one other game - Tetris - which he calls the Grandma game. Did talk him into playing once but never again.
We have guns in the house but no games with guns nor would I allow any either.
Because we had no video games, the kids spent all their time outdoors with friends and pick-up games of various sports. I don’t regret keeping the games out of the house one bit. My son bought his own xbox at 18, took it to college, and sold it after only two years. I was very impressed with that decision.
To each his own.