Playing Indoors (Temporarily!)

One of the crazes that came after my childhood that never caught my attention was the video game in its various incarnations. Pong showed up when I was fifteen, followed closely by Space Invaders when I was eighteen. If I was going to get hooked, those were the primo ages to do it. It never happened. I always preferred pastimes that required physical involvement of real objects, rather than those electronically produced. I guess that's why I'm so baffled by the generations of kids who followed m