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> my wife and I decided our kids won't have video games. We'll see how it goes.

I think you kid would feel excluded in school, when everyone is playing together online and talking about the latest games.

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It can feel that way sometimes when something is popular, but it's never really everyone, usually not even the majority.

Is this such a strong component of the American teenager identity? I know exactly one person here (Southern Europe) who plays videogames and nobody talked about it. Sports, music, fashion, movies, politics: that were the things that could make you or break you in high school.

I don't live in America, so I don't know. I agree its not the biggest thing in high school, but in pre-teenage gaming is big, at least where I live.

It can be up to 1/2 of the class who plays them regularly and maybe 1/8 who talks about them a lot. I'm gen Z (married sorta young) and grew up in a city in California. The thing that'd exclude you more is not being on social media, but even then, not really.

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