I've never been good at video games, but have always been fascinated by the skills involved in being good at them, and have been attracted to video games as a sort of metaphor. In law school, we did a parody of NORTH BY NORTHWEST (mainly because the two main classrooms were Langdell North and Langdell North Middle, and we could call the parody NORTH BY NORTH MIDDLE, so it was very title-driven). We knew we couldn't do a real cropduster scene, so the writing team worked up a CROPDUSTER video game which (in the plot of our parody) our hero was somehow attracted to play, but which suddenly turned on him. One of my jobs as a songwriter was to convey why law students were so attracted to video games (this was in 1980-83) and the idea for the song ended up being that as law students, we had no real power since the teachers held all the cards. I remember being so moved when one of my classmates, after having seen the show, said that song - while meant to be funny - captured for him why he was so addicted to getting better and better at video games.
I wonder of that may be a hook into why video games are to an extent a domain of the younger set, that it might tap into a need to be more in control. (That is the subtext I sort of latched on to when writing about a video game whiz in the book of our LAST STARFIGHTER musical adaptation.)