Shortly after Pokemon Gold/Silver came out, I was in my last year of elementary school.
Needless to say, I was fully invested in the game and skipped out on my regular "homework hours." I mean, I still did my homework, I just didn't do it in my standard time I negotiated with my parents. Basically it's come back from school, eat something, relax for an hour, do homework for X hours before dinner, finish homework, relax, go to sleep.
Instead for me it became come back from school, play Pokemon until dinner, do homework later.
So while I was busying chasing Entei around Johto after I got back from school, my mother caught me playing when I should be doing my homework.
She threw my Gameboy against the wall and pretty much destroyed it.
I got another Gameboy a few weeks later, but I learned to control my urges to play.