While i am not as old as many of you, i am one of those who already grew up in an era where the pc and the games already existed, and not just the tv consoles, i know we had one of those, some generic stuff, but never played it. I remember my family having a pc since i can remember this kind of things, that was more of a professional thing, with my parents being involved in computers. I also remember the times when i got older, around the age people go to school or so that they let me use the pc by myself, not just watch them. I remember playing some rally game, pretty old one and never found it later. There were a series of educational games, where you learnt animals and such and you needed to color in things. Typical kid stuff. There was another game that involved construction of things, but none of them had human vs human action. There were only objects under your control. Until i got into high school i still had that limit of 30min-1h of computer maximum a day. That got me into games like the NFS series or the Tycoon series, games i really enjoyed were Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, both some really old titles, but alternatives still exist today. "Got" my pc in 9th grade, it was basically moving it from the living room to my room and my parents using a laptop thereafter. Then the things started "falling apart". I started to discover games on my own, and got into a few more violent ones, gta series, CoD,BF. Then my friends got me into the MMO thing. I played WoW for a few months, never really enjoyed other than questing. I got into the MOBA crowd last year when my dorm roommates stared playing LoL in the exam session, i play that now just to play with some friends, never been serious about it. The only game that got me is World of Tanks, as it was a game that i have discovered in the beta and rediscovered later and played a lot. But there is no actual blood or killing people, you just shoot at other tanks. But i still like casual games and driving or economy simulation games better, been playing almost every game of the 18WoS series, NFS to day. Maybe except those from the pre 2000 era that wont really run now anymore. Remeber that XP came out and the only game i played wouldn't run and it took time to get a Win98 dual boot for this, i just felt like an artist with mspaint during that time. And when i got a partition on the pc for myself.. a whooping 20GB, 3 games and it was all gone with games starting to have the size of DVDs.
I still feel like my parents protected me maybe a bit too much from violence and pc games in general, but the pc still marks the end of your social life partially. And being socially excluded gets people back to their virtual reality even faster. And maybe this gets worse when kids become addicts and play all day long from early ages, also with the new consoles, where you can buy them for a lot cheaper then computers. It is a bad trend and people just cant stop little kids roaming on the internet anymore. Also Animated TV shows got much worse in the recent decade, so tv is also a place where violence is omnipresent even on children channels.
I just remembered i still have a copy of Halo(1), wrapped in foil, never opened because i hadn't been allowed to play it when i got it, well my father got it with some hardware at our PC shop and brought it home as they don't sell games and business clients don't take the games bundled with their hardware. Now i decided i will never open it, maybe it will be of some value later.