Yep, when I began to play computer games (80s), localization was not a thing. One was happy, if there was a german manual. the games themselves were always in english.

Rise of the Dragon, I learned to not leave my house without wearing any clothes

Video games have a powerful way to connect people, especially these days of quarantine and isolation. From early days of sitting side by side on the sofa playing 'Contra' to multiplayer deathmatches on with strangers over telephone lines in 'Quake', to current PvP and co-op online games. They prove to skeptics that gamers are not anti-social, but are social in creative, entertaining ways.

Honestly, I think RuneScape is a major part of why I am a writer and a self-described "entrepreneur-in-training" who wants to start a studio. This is doubly true because not only did the game get me interested in business but the company got me interested in the industry.

Persona 3 helped me understand the importance of human connections, and how even if we present a different "person" to everyone else, that "person" is still important, that the conection is real, and that no human can make it in life alone.

The original reason I learnt to use a hex editor involved hunting for debug rooms and other hidden/unused data.

Blowing into the cartridge is a placebo...and sometimes that's all you need.

Monkey Island taught me I can settle arguments with words rather than a sharp object."I am rubber, you are glue"

I have been playing videogames since I was a very little child, and in a sense, they taught me early of something I would have encountered for the entirety of life: nothing is ever completely certain, there is always a margin for the unexpected to happen, a point of chaos in everything.
Lateral thinking is the only mean to adapt to a reality in constant motion. Back then, when I was too young to have “real” problems, I learned this lesson thanks to the randomness, bugginess and general instability of computer games. Videogames always fascinated me, each one was a new colorful, shiny challenge to overcome either with the “proper” means or, lacking a solution with those, exploits and tricks.
Who has never lead an incredibly difficult monster to a trap making it stuck where it wasn't supposed to be and taking cheap, safe shots afterward? Gaining late game gear by deceiving the AI? Tinkering with software and hardware to make games work? Discovering the marvelous world of cheats and mods? Cracking open every single riddle with ingenuity, stubbornly refusing to just give up?
Persistence in effort is honorable, for sure, but sometimes even the hard work put in playing the system is worthy of commendation. :P

As a long-time wargamer, I would say certain learned things are obvious: geography, the importance and methodology of logistics, the concepts of combining elements (aka combined arms) to achieve a solution in the most efficient fashion possible. I've also found one game-tutor that teaches Japanese to have been very helpful.

I could point out that it was also gaming that led me to learn how to program (some) and thus (to make games playable) into building PCs. I then didn't use my degree and started a company refurbishing office equipment and computers -- a skill that came out of my gaming habit and building machines so I could game.

Playing point & click adventure games, i have developed a tic of catching everything that i see capable of fitting in my pockets, they have turned me into a potential kleptomaniac. They are malevolent!

Thank you for the contest!

From most games I have learned: save early, save often. Of course this advice would be a lot more useful if you could save your "game" in real life, but compulsively saving and backing up files have indeed helped me throughout the years on work and my personal projects.

On a more specific note: Age of Empires, Colonization, Civilization and the Indiana Jones games taught me a lot about history and geography, especially as a kid.

Video games taught me english ;) Specially old games like the Ultima 6 and 7, and a bunch of other RPGs. Being a small brazilian kid among many great games in english I had to force myself to learn the language in order to finish the stories.

Now I work with games and talk to developers all over the world in english!

I learned from Deus Ex - Human Revolutions Medical English terms which I was able to use for Science classes.

If you encounter enemies along the way, you're probably going the right way.

Same in real life.