Is It Wrong For An Adult to Play Video Games?

My older brother and several of my friends like to play video games. I have never understood the fascination, and I have often wondered if it is wrong for a grown man or woman to play them. After talking to my brother and some of my friends, I am convinced that there is nothing wrong with an adult playing video games and it really should be viewed as a hobby like anything else.

When I was a little boy, I loved to play video games and would do so most days that I got off of school, at least for a little while, anyway. It was around the time of the Atari and first Nintendo, so the games today are a far cry from what I played 20 some-odd years ago. By the time I reached high school, I had really lost interest in them, but my brother continued to play them into college.

As a matter of fact, with each new version of Nintendo, or PlayStation came a new trip to the closest electronics store for my brother and some of my friends. They would often ask me what I thought about a particular game, and I have to admit that I would feel left out. It was odd to me that they still liked to play video games, because it was something I viewed as being kind of juvenile.

I was giving my brother a hard time about it one time and he asked me to tell him what was so much more sophisticated or mature about collecting books, which is one of my hobbies, than for him to play video games. I thought about it for a moment, and I really could not answer him. The reason I could not answer is because I had cultured myself throughout college not to look down on or make fun of other people's customs, because how we value things in society is really relative. Here I was, teasing my brother, and he was just doing something that he loved to do.

The reality of the matter is that just because I don't see the value in playing video games does not mean that there is none. Several people that I interact with on a daily basis like to play video games, and they have never once given me a hard time about collecting books.

Because of this, I really don't think it is wrong for an adult to play video games. It really should be viewed as another hobby that people can do for as long as they want.