At what point did you allow/introduce gaming?

Quick background on myself. 35 male who grew up playing video games. I started with my dads Pong system and then was gifted a Nintendo for Christmas one year from my grandparents. Not sure on the year but probably '92, '93? ( I seem to correlate that with the Jay's winning the series).Around the same time I was heavy into baseball for the above reasons and played alot during the summer in various little leagues.Last night we had our neighbors over. Their son is 9 and has been playing games for a while. We had built a super awesome blanket fort in our basement and my son, 4, wanted to show him. They play really well together so we let them go to the basement by themselves. After about 40min I go down and see that the neighbour's son was on my PC playing Minecraft. Aside from not liking the fact he just jumped on my PC without asking he also just introduced our son to video games.Up until this point the most thought I had on the subject was delay it as long as possible. Get him into sports first and then gaming. The reasoning behind this was from my first hand experience with gaming and how it changed my behavior as a kid. Keep in mind in the 90's video games were not as addicting as some of the gameplay loops you see in modern games. I went from playing baseball all the time to being sheltered inside 4 hours at a time getting no exercise. I started to struggle to find motivation to do well in school and finish my homework. Etc etc. So what was addicting to me then I think could be far worse now. I realize a lot of this could be contributed to how my parents handled it with me but I do want to make sure I'm giving my son the best chance in school and social life. Where is the balance with kids now a days?I will say a few good things came from my gaming. I learned to program fairly young. In high school I made myself a simple top down shooter ala 1942. That programming knowledge helped me grasp PLC programming very easily in College. I also learned to model in 3D using 3d Max that I used to make some Unreal Tournament maps. That didnt really translate to what I do now but that almost had me go down that path for a career. That was just me though. His experience could be better or worse.What I could really use is some horror stories or lessons learned from your own kids to help me make decision. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2tju16s