For the video gamers, an article from Wired Magazine called "Dome Improvement" featured today at Arts & Letters Daily. Video games may be good practice for the problem-solving in modern IQ tests, and IQ tests measure skills in a cultural context.
I am (one generation) from Holland. Isn't that vierd?
Also, they will help me build the skills to beat the alien invaders and not even know I'm doing it because I will think it is only a game but it will be real and I will be commanding vast fleets of spacecraft and storm troopers. Knowing the truth helps me keep going.
That's the plot device at the heart of Orson Scott Card's "Enders Game". Also a plot device in "The Last Starfighter" (1984). Robert Preston played an alien secret agent named Centauri who recruits a teenager from Earth to battle the Kodon Armada and the Armies of Zool. Centauri had planted a video game in an arcade to test for the abilities to destroy enemy ships. A little Star Wars vibe in the training if I remember.