Why are people even interested in Games?

I don't understand the fascination with game development. I find writing desktop applications much more rewarding, because they're actually used by people -- I've seen people's lives changed by a Task Manager.

Why games? Nobdody will remember your Tetris clone.

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You've never written a game which caused over half of your IT class to get nothing done at all for two weeks until it got banned have you?

It was a pretty rubbish top-down shooter that could be played over a network but it kept us amused.