Playing videogames is still a major part of our lives.
As fore inspiration I can just answer for myself.
I get inspiration from a lot of places. Korn's baseplayer has one of my favourite sounds. Dustbrothers got the rythm I want.
When I hear a sound I like I get inspiration from it, as it was with Gazus song here:
http://bracagazus.free.fr/tracks/crushcrushcrush.mp3 .
It wasn't actually the song that inspired me as much as the sounds and the rythms.
Listen too the Fight Club soundtrack while drinking coffee with a tad of whisky and smoking a cigarette at the same time as you're playing Got The Life and looking at ingame fotage from Silkworm. That's my kung fu.
And don't you dare ask me about Silkworm and then try to call yourself a gamer =P