Who has never played video games?

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I'm just curious. I want to know if you feel not having played has somehow effected your development.

And please mods, don't move this to video games forum. It's not about games. And I'd imagine nobody in the games forum hasn't played.

When you say video games, do you mean interactive games on screens whether they be video, pc sreens, tv screens or any other sort of screen? I'm asking because I am quite interested in how the term 'video game' has survived technological evolution.

Other than that, to answer your question; I have played video games and games on most subsequent technological reiterations of the video game.

I haven't played them (except for trying out the neighbor's Pong game when I was a teenager in the 70s). I'm more of a bookworm-- that's my compulsion. I don't think it's hurt me in any way not playing the games.

Only a few of the most brain dead games. It is not a passion.
Eh, actually, it was not video games, but small 5 minutes online-things, and only as an adult. There weren´t any videogames around in my childhood.

I didn't play them until I was seven. If it weren't for my brother, who knows how long it would have been before I touched my first video game.

When I was in pre-school, my instructor and a colleague performed some assessments on me and determined I had poor fine motor skills - particularly hand-eye coordination. They wanted to hold me back a year to see if they could help me improve them. Instead, my mom bought a Nintendo Entertainment System. Not only did it apparently help me improve my fine motor skills, but I also became obsessed with video games.

i first played video games when i was 2 years old but i know my grandad would have never played one ever becuase he lived away from close
civilisation and video games but he is dead so i dont think that helps your question.

I was preserved from the video game obsession by poverty. We couldn't afford a game console to play Pong and the other primitive home versions, and I'd rather waste my few spare quarters on more tangible pleasures, like peach Nehi sodas and taco-flavored Doritos (remember those, anyone?).

If it didn't involve dressing up like a sexy space princess in my bathing suit top and a long skirt and waving a "light saber" made from a blue aluminum toy baton around, I wasn't interested.

I have dyspraxia, so I don't have the fine motor coordination needed to play video games effectively. Around 1980 my grandparents bought an early Fairchild video game machine, one of those 8 bit things, and I tried playing it, but couldn't play it well so I got frustrated and quit. So I never really got into video games.

I have never, ever played any type of video game. Don't know if it would have improved my reflexes or concentration (and my reflexes are very slow). Didn't like cards or any board games as a child either and have never played them as an adult. If I'm going to concentrate that hard, there has to be a tangible reward at the end: a paycheck, a good grade, a useable object, something! Now that I'm older, I have more patience for concentrating on tasks but still have no interest in games.

For the most part, no. Never owned a game system, nor did I care to go to arcades--it just wasn't something I was interested in.

Recently, I attempted to play Mario (and I mean the very earliest version) on a friend's system and I SUCKED. Same with Mortal Kombat and a few others like it--I can't seem to remember which buttons do what.

I have played free versions of Tetris online (freetetris.org for anyone who's interested) and some of the free Yahoo! games, one of which is an obvious rip-off of Pac-Man.

Tetris is my favorite, and I keep telling myself it's somewhat useful because it's made me better at bagging items at Walmart--maximizing space in each bag, making sure items don't break each other, etc.

I am not now nor have I ever been into playing video games.

I've never played a video game like with a console, except for Pong... I played a little Pacman in this one bar I used to go to, in the 70s.

A little Bubble shooter on the laptop, that's about my limit for video games.

My sons both play, over the years I've obtained for them the x-box, Playstation, Wii, Gameboy (& multiple editions of some) and who knows what else. However I've never used any of them, neither has my daughter for that matter (how stereotypical are we?). I tried out a Gameboy one time, and couldn't get the hang of it, and it certainly didn't feel like a skill worth practicing for.

I can't imagine not playing games, I have spent thousands upon thousands of hours playing games (beginning with pong), or researching how to play them better, as well as all the time spent researching and learning how to build computers and researching the best possible computer parts for my gaming needs. I am responding to this post because not playing games is unimaginable to me, I do lots of other things on the computer like researching topics for the pleasure of learning as much as I can about a particular subject or constructive things like taking on-line college courses.

I am not flaming you when I ask if you are flaming gamers, I am scincerly interested to know if you think games are a waste of time, or that for you (non-gamers) there simply a complete lack of interest in the particular diversion. The aspie aspect (sorry) of the question is how autistic it is of me to find the very concept of not wanting to play video games incomprehensible, my for example wife isn't a gamer at all btw, neither is my oldest daughter, but my 12 year old son and 5 year old girl are both avid gamers. My wife dosent mind my passion for pc gaming, so long as it does not become an obsession, which it has for me from time to time.

I currently play Star Trek Online, if anyone is interested to know.

Video games were not invented when I was young so anyone over 50 could not have played as a child. However I love playing games and as I was bored so much as a child I would love to have had video games. I think they would have affected my development though because I was forced to socialise as all children played out in those days and I would have been very isolated.

That would be me. Electronic arcade games appeared when I was a teenager; I found the noise and flashing lights of the mall arcades overwhelming, and since I lack hand-eye coordination, time-critical games were and are stressful rather than enjoyable. Games still don't appeal to me today, even though there are now many types and you can play them in a controlled environment at home.

Affected my development? Well, I continued to spend my spare time with books and hobbies rather than staring at a screen. I have no regrets.