Great to see, thx! I was a Dragons Lair huge fan, used to draw crowds of other students watching me play in college arcade,, rescuing daphne. There were hidden elevator codes, left right patterns you could use to replay/skip levels in arcade version, discovered that
You probably just outgrew it. When I was 12 or 13 years old I could spend 12-14 hours a day playing computer games. If I tried to do that now (assuming I could even find such a huge block of free time!) after an hour or two I'd get bored, or my eyes would bother me, or I'd just start to feel like shit for wasting my time so unproductively when there's a huge list of other things to do.
"I think it's a safe bet that they enjoy the regular paycheck more than anything." --> I said this in response to the following quote--why else would someone want to be a cog in a machine?