Emacs does a lot more than play Tetris, lol.
As a programmer you have to learn your way around the command line... while I'm no old-school unix geek I do appreciate that console OSes and editors can help productivity.
As for games, I'm a casual Roguelike fan. Not DORF FORT level, but I'll play Angband and stuff like that. I was thinking about writing a little roguelike, but school quickly killed that idea.