Yes. You travel the world and have fun. Your children are extremely lucky, and they know that, I?m sure, but Frumpy, there?s something you need to be told. VIDEO GAMES AREN?T BAD FOR YOU. You don?t become a jaded zombie, prowling the streets and risking sun-exposure only for a new release. What you do is play a game. When you reach a point where you think you should stop, or you get sick of it, or frustrated, or you have an appointment, or it?s time to go to bed, you shut it off. Your kids won?t be killed or even harmed by video games. They just have fun for a little while. Even multiplayer games, like those at your son?s friend?s party, encourage socialization. When you and 3 friends take on zombies in Left 4 Dead, you have to formulate plans to win. Too many to fight, to little ammo? No problem! Have one distract and the others run behind, then you can all hide in different places, trying to make it through and get to a door. When you face a large monster in Final Fantasy and you?re very weak, you learn to ration potions and use stunning attacks so you get minimal self-damage and maximum them-damage. When your son fights an opposing team in Halo 3, or Counter Strike, Modern Warfare, anything, he has to figure out which of his team is fastest and can get the flag, while he tells the people with the best guns to shield them. Heck, he himself has to figure out which weapon is best for the situation.
Video games also put you into another world. It?s another form of media, different from movies or books. Instead of hearing about Sherlock Holmes finding the proverbial smoking gun, or seeing James Bond crash into a car headfirst and drive to safety, he IS James Bond. He IS Sherlock. He IS Quarglock the Fourth, ruler of the alien dynasty. It?s interactive, throwing an onslaught of problems at him for him to solve. It puts him in the character?s shoes, giving him an entire world to explore and do what he must.
What I?m getting at is, Games are a different experience than movies or books. They make you the alien, the secret agent, the soldier, the plumber who SAVES THE PRINCESS! But most of all, it generates fun. He?ll have fun riding the elephants and scuba diving, a whole lot of fun, but games are a different kind of fun. You know how you know of the two instances of addictive gaming? What with the labor-leaving and police-men? That?s not all of us. That?s obsessives who never know when to stop and can?t balance priorities. If you tell your son when enough is enough, he will know when that is and will think of it as a hobby, not a drug he needs to have. I am a part of The Escapist, and we look down on obsessives and The Addicted. We point to them and say ?Look at them. Look at them and listen to me. I?m not that.? We aren?t all like that. If you wanna raise your kids like that I can?t stop you, but they?re missing out on something.
But I think all the Scuba diving and Safari-ing balances it out.
The sooner interest in the idiot dies down, we can all move back to doing what we love best! LURKING! 
