A couple years ago something switched in me though and I don't really enjoy games anymore. I wish I did but I quickly get bored and I don't get the same satisfaction.
Same. As a kid I was obsessed, my mom called it "Nintendo fever", I would get really obsessed and freak out when she tried to make me stop, and I'd get enraged when I lost/died/etc. It got to where I only got to play 2 half hour sessions per week, or 3 if I did all my chores. And only on the weekend, and not 2 consecutive half houir periods. Then when I got a little older I didn't have restrictions anymore.
The most obsessed I was though was the online multiplayer RPG MUD game, all text, called Dragonrealms, which is where Xorkoth is from, he was my character in there. He was an elven Moon Mage, and a total bad ass scholar warrior wizard. It was my other life, SO MUCH more immersive than any graphics-based game, like how reading a book is much more engrossing than watching TV/movies. I had a wife in the game even (another player, we almost met in real life eventually until is was discovered that I was 15 and she was 18
), and a bunch of friends, and participated in the storyline of the game and it was just awesome. I'd play 8 hours a day if possible, I'd wake up at 5am before school a lot of the time. I loved that game, I eventually got banned for scripting boring skills (crushing herbs in a mortar and pestle for hours to gain ranks in mechanical lore, etc), AFK scripting was against the rules but you could script if you were at the keyboard. I was programming a web site for the game, that was a database and interface for all the magical devices in the game (mostly for the rare/unique ones dropped at invasions and in-game story events, nothing existed like that for the players). They didn't care, though, I broke the 10 minutes not noticing their promoting at the keyboard, by like 30 seconds, and after about 7 years of paying for monthly service, even playing since the early AOL days from before it went for-pay, I was perma-banned and Xorkoth was erased from the game permanently. It was pretty devastating. Then I realized Xorkoth lived on, as my online psychedelic wizard avatar.
Anyway the last gaming system I owned was the Nintendo 64. When I went to college, none of my friends were into gaming at all, we partied and got high and played frisbee and shit instead. I just didn't game anymore and then I stopped thinking about it or wanting to and now it doesn't appeal to me. I did just find all my old SNES game and cleaned them up and discovered they're worth good money, though. Gonna hang onto them and watch them go up in value. I had all my N64 games too, but my little brother took them after he blacked out and pissed on his Nintendo 64, and his X-Box. Then he blacked out and pissed on my Nintendo 64 and he's not sure if the games are at my mom's house or just gone. Asshole