I lost interest in video games after 3D first-person shooters took over back in the '90s. I never learned to play them effectively, and could not afford to keep

I lost interest in video games after 3D first-person shooters took over back in the '90s. I never learned to play them effectively, and could not afford to keep up with the hardware-upgrade treadmill they demanded. Video gaming seemed to have become an expensive hobby for aggressive, competitive, trend-following people; I did not want to interact with such people, much less become one, and just... stopped paying attention. The value proposition has definitely changed since those days: divide the purchase cost of "Baldur's Gate 3" by the number of hours of enjoyment my wife has gotten out of it, and the result is negligible. It's hard to imagine a less expensive form of entertainment short of going for a walk! Sometimes I still like to play roguelikes (by which I mean games that are like Rogue, and not the mostly-unrelated recent genre also called "roguelike"), of which Brogue is my favorite; it can be a fun little puzzle to bang through when I have ten or twenty minutes to kill.