The games made you who you are. Live life with out regrets, everything we do shapes us. Hell if you never picked up the game maybe you would have picked up drugs, or got a girl friend who broke your heart and you killed yourself. Or maybe you would have realised you sucked at those other things. Maybe you would not have met the people you met, learned the things you learned.
I am a gamer, i have been since my first nintendo, i've also done other things with my life. Learned martial arts, joined ROTC, got into music, been in riots, tried drugs, drank, fucked, been fucked over, fought, played rugby, enlisted in the Army. Each one of those things made my life richer, more full. If you dedicate your life to only one task you become a one trick pony. Imagine if i never touched a game counsel, i would have never made the friends i did today. I would have thought they were odd and game nerds, or i would have waited till later to get into gaming then let it consume my life. If i never tried Karate, i would have never got into that first fight, my dad would have never started BJJ, i would have never taken BJJ evolving into me never meeting the instructor who helped shape me, i would have never wrestled in competitions, never met J.J. Machado, Tito Ortiz, or Randy Couture. I would have gotten into MMA way to late (probably being a bro), i would have never started Muay Thai. That would mean i never met Pong, or the Ekyotin family i developed. I would never have had the skirmish that destroyed my testicle, meaning i would never have had that joke to fall back on which (oddly enough) built up my self esteem. I would not have met Victor who developed my interest in the Armed forces. I would not have joined ROTC or the Army.
Hell i wouldn't have got my first girlfriend either. Or knocked out the bully. or had the guts to stand up to my father and brother.
I'd be fundamentally different. All because i lost out on that one little thing in my child hood.
Tell me, would you want to lose who you were just so you could "fit in" at the university?