[ses1984]

It depends on their role models. When I was a toddler I saw my older family members playing games and I wanted to do what they did. I learned how to load commodore games from the command line at age 5, maybe 4.

My kids had only a casual interest in games until age 6 when the older one discovered minecraft.

[telesilla]

Wasn't that part of the intrigue when computers and games had cables and cartridges and you needed to crawl behind the TV to connect it when you wanted to play? The romanticism is lost. I wonder for me, getting involved back then was hardware related.

Thankfully Lego remains.