I would agree with Renzo. Technology has advanced to the point of letting video games become an art form competitive with all the others.

I would add that I don't think it's just young people who get such enjoyment. They don't remember the relatively primitive days of Pong and Tetris, but they managed to be born just as the games require less patience and imagination on the part of the player. Of course, I think a question as deserving of research is how and why it became socially acceptable for adults to continue to play these games. I can't pinpoint the time when it flipped, but I seem to remember days when video games were the thing that you stopped playing once you got more of the conventional trappings of "grown-up" life. Now, we include video-game play in adult life.

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I would agree with Renzo. Technology has advanced to the point of letting video games become an art form competitive with all the others.

I would add that I don't think it's just young people who get such enjoyment. They don't remember the relatively primitive days of Pong and Tetris, but they managed to be born just as the games require less patience and imagination on the part of the player. Of course, I think a question as deserving of research is how and why it became socially acceptable for adults to continue to play these games. I can't pinpoint the time when it flipped, but I seem to remember days when video games were the thing that you stopped playing once you got more of the conventional trappings of "grown-up" life. Now, we include video-game play in adult life.

To my children they do not need to worry about behavior when they are playing video-game and they can pretend to be whoever they want to be.

I think one of the reasons simply is that they youngsters have the time to do so.

As a grown-up you have to earn money, take care for your household and the kids. When all this is done your partner gets the rest of the free time...