Through depression, illness and a heck of a birthday party, video games have been our family's glue Dominik Diamond

There are now new, different rooms to fill with all the things and machines that keep a family functioning. Some of them, as ever, are games consoles. I wrote recently about the place that the ZX Spectrum occupied in our council house in Arbroath in the 80s. But we had a machine before that. A bizarre arcade box that came with a black and white TV and an assortment of Pong knockoffs.