Sounds like it could be true
Video Games, as we know them, were always meant as games, not as training programs.
However, the programming of simple video games is often a part of the training of a programmer.
For training purposes however those games were not an addiction for most of that play the masses that it has become addction those games for training purposes however those were mmorpgs then first person.
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