Nowadays I play differently to what I did as a kid. I've never really been one to play a game for hours upon hours, but rather just 2-3 hours a day (if it's a new game). Partially because of a lack of time, but also because I don't want to "waste" the new game immediately. I'm the same with series. Some people like to binge watch things, but I don't. I usually only watch 2-3 episodes a week of a series I follow. Sometimes less. This way I get to drag out the experience over a longer period of time.
I remember when Skyward Sword came out, one of my friends beat the game in two weeks, while it took me about 2 months. Only thing I don't like about this way of pacing my playing is when too many games come out at the same time. Like last fall, when there was LA Switch, Spyro: Reignited, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Pokémon gen 8 within september-november. I got a bit overwhelmed then.