Yes. I have gotten more value from gaming than from public schooling. We only had LANs and no internet in the early days. Online gaming is not as condusive to learning networking and effing around to find out. Everything is silver plattery spoon fed and wokish nowadays.

I played PC only:

3d Dinosaurs

The adventures of Ozzie the Otter

Robin Hood the Legend of Sherwood

Roger Wilco Space Quest

Full Throttle.

Eagle Eye Mysteries

3 Skulls of the Toltecs

Civilisations

Age of Empires

Command and Conquer/Tiberium Sun/Renegade.

Commando's

Quake 3 Arena.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Unreal Tournament.

Defense of the Ancients WC3

Mafia.

Dungeon Siege 1& 2.

Call of Duty

Deus Ex.

Morrowind

Half Life 2

Titan Quest

Oblivion

Skyrim

Portal

Need for Speed Underground 2

DOTA2

Between by Jason Rohrer

If a child has discovered a love for books and reading and stimulated a natural curiousity for knowledge then gaming can be a healthy distraction and even useful skillset. I learned a lot and had loads of fun.

My mother hated my computer.

I hated school more. Loved learning though.

I would not want to navigate gaming in a woke online world as a kid, but thankfully our generation of parents are relatively web wise.

Old games are just as fun as they were in the 90's and 00's

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