Video Games Can Make You Smarter?

For years I heard that video games will turn your brain into "mush".

Followed with a "What are you doing? You're gonna waste your life playing that thing?"  Turns out when I was a kid I was preparing my brain for the ability to tell when a word is spelled out with a red font type but it's actually says "blue".  Like the following video states, you can't just play video games "so enjoy your down time and relax with your games in moderation, but get out there and keep your life diverse as well.  Because that's how you'll win at the game of life".