Sometimes I wonder if maybe it's
because this generation's born with PS, Wii, Nintendo, etc, etc they don't obsess so much with those. Well, some of them cause one of my nephews would have withdrawal symptoms if the Wii breaks down.
Mind you, that was at a time when there were only 3 TV channels to choose from.
Every once in a while my daughter asks me to tell her (again) how when I was little I only had 3 channels in my city (2 locals, 1 national) and I only had 2 hours/day of kids' shows: 1 hour of cartoons and the other hour was maybe Zorro, Batman,
El Chavo but not much else. No wonder I played a lot of sports back then.