Why Do People Play Video Games?

What leads people, of all ages, to excessively play video and computer games? The answers lay not with the scientists or researchers, but with the "gamers" themselves. The scientists and researchers lack a very important trait to asses the causes excessive video game play. The causes that lead people to play games range from fascination of the game to simply boredom.
People tend to question "why do they waste time with those stupid games?" to that, my cousin has this to say, "I play [video] games because they let me be something that I can't be in real life." Many people agree with this statement mainly because they like to put themselves in the action. …