It happens to me whole the time. Sometimes I don't play games for weeks, even months, and then suddenly I want to play a lot of games again.

I haven't played any games since sunday, so I'll probably be playing a lot this weekend.

To be honest, I was going through this off and on for the last few months, and feel I only got over it recently. I guess in general, gaming has really become less of a main hobby, and more a 3rd/4th hobby when I have nothing else going on. For a while though, I just had absolutely no interest in it. 

I think, in my case, I just felt how I was going about gaming was wrong, or at least, wasn't working for me. I had a list of games I wanted to get through from various genres, on various systems, and would basically plan three or four games ahead on what I would play next. I liked being organized...but this really hurt my interest in the hobby as well. With full-time work, graduate study, and other obligations, I found that I was accumulating games faster than I was playing them. No matter how hard I tried...I would just get buried, and eventually I just realized I wasn't having any fun trying to stay on top of my backlog constantly. My backlog would just grow and grow, forever mocking me. 

Meanwhile, while this was going on, I had a friend who was playing Fire Emblem Fates. He had already beaten all three of the game's story paths...and even though he had plenty of other games to play, he was still playing Fates. Not to replay the story or anything...but because he had created a goal for himself to turn every female character in the game into a maid. While it sounds silly...he was always in such a good mood doing this...and it finally dawned on me, which of us is in the right here? The one who's trying to play everything, or the one who's enjoying the games he's playing at that moment?

I guess what this long sob story boils down to is...the way I was gaming wasn't working for me. I can't play every game out there, and it's ridiculous to assume otherwise. I deleted my entire backlog list on my computer...and honestly, I felt great after doing it. Now my backlog is literally "whatever I want play next." While I realize this means I have a ton of unfinished games out there...the feeling of freedom makes it more than worth it.

The first instance was with the SNES. With a few exceptions, I just got tired of the shallow style of gaming that was the norm during that period. So many platformers, so many beat 'em ups. There was so little imagination involved that most games failed to hold my interest. Characters were cardboard and narratives were copy-pasted from one game to the next. Instead, reading became my primary hobby.

I was pretty much done with gaming until I found a used copy of Final Fantasy VI. I remembered loving the original on the NES and bought it. It became my favorite game instantly and showed me the potential gaming had for meaningful storytelling and interesting characters. Still, I couldn't find anything else even remotely close and stayed at a distance from gaming until Final Fantasy VII released and compelled me to buy a Playstation.

The second time I strayed from gaming came well into the life of the PS2. It was a period where I was doing other things. I was partying and going to clubs a lot, or just hanging out, and when I wasn't doing that, I was going into chat-rooms and talking to people online.

Eventually I got burned out with partying, which is when one of my online friends introduced me to MMOs. I spent a lot of time doing that before the reveal of The Last Guardian and Uncharted 2 convinced me to buy a PS3. Yeah, I know.

It comes and goes tbh. I love to play games but I love to do other stuff too unfortunately. Sometimes there just isn't a game that interests me enough to take me away from that.

I used to be someone who would preorder games so I could talk about whatever was fresh off the press.  The Fallout games and Skyrim were some of the experiences that made me realize that I'd rather play something over and over that I really liked than play something just because it's the newest hot topic.  I don't even try to keep up anymore.  I only buy games that I really want and if something new isn't to my liking, I'll drop it in a heartbeat.  I think I have more fun this way.

I haven't been interested in games for two years now. I like discussing them, just not playing them anymore. Played a few levels of crash bandicoot recently on PS4 but haven't touched it since. Not sure what happened, maybe it'll come back, maybe it won't.

Yup, I hardly touched a video game back in 1998-2006; I mostly played grand strategy games on PC. It wasn't until I tried out the Wii that my gaming interest came back.

Sometimes I don't feel like playing any games but it usually doesn't last more than a week.

Not really, even when 7th gen consoles completely sucked for years I had WoW and PC gaming to back me up.

Not really lost interest ever but it my interest waned a fair bit around the time I was moving a lot and had no real place to play them really, was more into comics then. As soon as I settled, got a TV of my own, upgraded to PS3. I started up again.