I am a lifelong video game player. I worked at a local video game store for years. I started my collection buying vids. I stumbled into pinball a short time later, but I still have my vids after about 10 years. They are both great and help define the arcade experience I try to replicate in my basement. I love pinball the most overall, but despite all the money, time and labor I've poured into my gameroom, I still spend 10x as much time on console games. They are inexpensive and some games can consume hundreds and hundreds of hours of free time. I play pinball when I don't have so much time or when friends come over. It's all gaming and it's all great!

Yup, I still have my NES and PS2 (also plays PS1) hooked up to the tv. There are a ton of console/pc games I go back to every few years even though I've beaten them and played them countless times:

Castlevania 1, 3 and Symphony of the Night
Super Mario 1-4
Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2
StarCraft
Intelligent Qube
Bust-A-Groove
Fallout 3 & New Vegas
Oblivion & Skyrim
Wasteland
Quest for Glory 1-4
GTA: 3, VC, SA & 5
Blaster Master
Need for Speed 3
Ghostbusters (x360)
Resident Evil 1 & 2
Final Fantasy 1-3
Wizardry 6 & 7

I'm sure I could go on. Some of these games still look great in their own way and even if they don't, there's always going to be something that appeals to me to make me keep going back. Some games are about the challenge and some are just about the experience. Pinball is better as a hobby, I think, but there is art and there are sounds and there are experiences to be appreciated in video games. The two aren't mutually exclusive in the least and I would hope that people who appreciate one can appreciate the other.