From the opening pages of Susan Maushart's The Winter of Our Disconnect, a book I picked up this winter in Cambridge (thank you, Waterstone's 3 for 2 mix and match!):

The old saw reminds us that to a man with a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Does it follow… that to a boy with a joystick and a graphics card, the whole world looks like a psychotic dwarf with an ax?

As a former boy with a joystick and a graphics card, I can say it does not. It is, however, filled with many spaceships, and a surprising number of things that can work as laser cannon.