It's what so many of our Gen X and Y's do. It is the modern way of entertainment. We didn't have computers when we were young so we stuck to bikes. Now its different. Machines and gismos are the rage - look at the modern phones.
Another thing I have noticed - at railway station the young ones will buy their ticket from a machine. I never do. I prefer to help save the job of the bloke in the ticket office.
It's just the modern way, computer games are todays craze.
In my youth we had marbles