I've been thinking about this for many years. I get annoyed when I'm told that games are useless, you don't learn anything from them. I disagree, I think that we learn several things from games.
1.I learned from A Link to the Past that you can't judge a book by its cover(pardon the cliche).
2. Time and money management from Harvest Moon.
3.Hand and eye coordination(obviously)
These are a few examples, I want to know if anyone else has thought about this. I have been playing games for over 25 years and I would like to think that I've gained something from it.