I don't let my kids play video games. There is no xbox or PlayStation crap for them to mindlessly play on in my house...and I'm proud of that. My kids are now 11 (boy) and 13 (girl) and neither have any desire to own or play video games. They do have phones and will occasionally download games but play for a bit only to realize it's mainly a waste of time. My son is quite the pinball player and his friends love to come to his birthday party which is an annual tournament. I buy bigass trophies to hand out as well and the kids seem to love it. I've also brought in a pinball machine to my sons enrichment class for the last two years and gave a little speech about physics, geometry and a brief history of pinball.

I have noticed a decline in kids tourneys. Specifically, the Ohio pinball show used to do a kids tourney every year, but chose not to for the last two years for some reason...

Yeah, the possible irony has not been lost on me, for sure. I guess I find that pinball is physical and cerebral where most video games are not. Pinball requires some, albeit small, level of physical movement that vids don't. Call me weird, but I'm also the parent who makes my kids exercise, read literature and have never given them soda in their lives....