Why are video games so addictive ?

[jeabombers]

Look at it this way: Pay $3000 to go on a one week trip to Hawaii, or pay $3000 for an entertainment setup that will provide you what could be over 150 hours of vacation time with just one game alone. Any time you want to go on a new vacation, you can drop down $60 to go wherever you want, and DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. Take Fallout 3, for instance? Want to go slaughter countless innocents and defile yourself with women? Want to be a complete saint, and save every person you come across (and not double-cross the android after you get his plasma rifle.) Games like Oblivion are just as beautiful (IMO) as a trip to Hawaii, too. Looking at it this way, I've gone on more visual vacations in my life than any businessman that travels all the time....