We all balked when the American Medical Association proposed making video game addiction a diagnosable medical condition. Surely this was yet another attempt to push a new line of drugs bearing vaguely soothing names on an already overmedicated nation. When stories like this come out, however, it becomes difficult to deny that there may be something to such claims, after all.

A Reno couple in their early 20s blame their Web and video game obsessions for the malnourishment of their two young children. "They had food; they just chose not to give it to their kids because they were too busy playing video games," prosecutor Kelli Ann Viloria told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Perhaps the most bizarre piece of the story is the fact that parents weren't obsessed with a game like the notorious like-sucker, World of Warcraft, but rather an online version of Dungeons & Dragons. [Warning: highly inappropriate snark ahead] Perhaps the problem wasn't video game addiction, at all, but rather the fact that the parents were trapped far away from their children in the land of 1991.

Be sure to check out the full AP story for a nice little video game/meth analogy, straight from a Nevada Child Abuse Prevention spokesperson.