Video games make me smart

Well, okay, not smarter, but I've been telling people this for years. I have much better hand-eye coordination, reaction times, and ability to adapt to situations with quickly changing visual information than my friends who don't play video games.

"Researchers at the University of Rochester found that young adults who regularly played video games full of high-speed car chases and blazing gun battles showed better visual skills than those who did not. For example, they kept better track of objects appearing simultaneously and processed fast-changing visual information more efficiently."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/05/28/action.video.ap/index.html