Yeah, I was a young teen when playing video games meant going down to the arcade and putting quarters in, so maybe I'd get to play games once a week and maybe go through $3-5 worth of quarters?

Got an Apple ][ when those came along and got into playing the games I could get for that (and writing my own in BASIC), and later on the PC / DOS stuff. As I got older I'd play the Wolfenstein and Doom type games, and we'd have lunchtime LAN deathmatches at the software company where I worked.

Once my son came along I kind of put those aside, both due to not having time and not wanting to expose him to violent stuff.

As he got older he wanted to play Pokemon, so we got him a DS Lite and Pokemon Diamond. He wanted me to play too, so Santa got me a DS and Pokemon Pearl. We coached each other through the game and learned how to beat the Elite 4 together. When Platinum came out we devoured that together too, along with every other Pokemon game that came out since, it was just something we did together. I remember importing the Japanese versions of Black/White because we didn't want to wait for the US release.

Last year we built him a gaming rig from parts and he's into that now. I have a few games on Steam I like (Kerbal!) but mostly play 3DS games (Fantasy Life, Pokemon, Dragon Quest, Senran Kagura, Etrian Odyssey, Animal Crossing, etc) and Splatoon on the WiiU.

So yeah, I still play almost every day. It was fun to build a RetroPi rig last year and play some old games and see how far things have come since "the old days." Choplifter seems a lot more lame in 2017 than it did back when it came out! :)