Another former homeschooling mom:
In the best unschooling situations of which I’ve been aware, parents create learning conducive home environments and model intellectual exploration themselves. Of course, this is easiest for families when this is just how they live anyways. It’s natural, not forced.
I’m definitely an unschooling fan.
I dealt with video games and x-box and so on, by not having them in the house for as long as possible, until someone feeling sorry for my boys gifted them a few games. Then we started discussing obsessive activities and best uses of time. They got beyond that interest pretty quickly. However, they did role playing games, old school, seated around a table with dice, for years. Mine are long done with college. Sometimes when they discuss their work teams and projects, it reminds me of those games and their gaming friends.
So much of this has to do with teaching kids to be responsible for educating themselves. This is a really good thing. imho.
adding: 95% of kids in our homeschool group completed PhD. Some are scientists.