This thought occurred to me a few days ago as I reflected on my own gaming through the years. I know I've been gaming ever since the Atari console and Atari/Commadore computers ruled the day and that it was my dad who got me hooked on it all. Now I'm 29, married, have a toddler running loose, mortgage, car-payments, etc... that adds up to little money and little time to game. Despite all this, I still feel as adamant about gaming as I did when I was little. And even though gaming continues to skyrocket in terms of cost, I'm quite certain I will never "grow out of" gaming. Has anyone else even made this connection or felt the same way? I'm curious since I remember back in the 8-bit and 16-bit days a lot of parents, talk shows and even news media stated that "video games were just a habit that children would surely grow out of with time." I don't feel it and from years of looking through Gamespot I highly doubt anyone else here will either. But I'd like to hear it from everyone else; help convince me I'm not crazy and that this IS a shared commonality between many adults, young adults, teenagers and children moving ever closer to "adulthood." Do you think you will ever "grow out of" gaming?smadiso1

Sometimes I leave it in, sometimes I don't. I haven't had any problems with my games by leaving them in the console though.WWJD