We try to balance things in our household But our boys love playing video games and we recently got them a Wii. We figured at least this way it requires the most activity of the video game players. We haven't bought any games for it, it came with a really fun sports game, we all love and makes us work up a good sweat.
Instead of throwing down $50 a pop for games we got the boys a gamefly.com account, set-up the parental controls which limits the boys to only renting games we approve of. It works like netflix, they get a new game evertime they send an old one back. It's been really fun for all of us to play together. Both me and my DW were never into video games before but it has been a fun family activity for us.
Anyone else play videogames with your kids? How do you balance you kids video gaming with more active pursuits?