I have a friend who plays video games professionally. I don't know what his game is, but it's one of those 1st person shooter kinda games (I'm clearly waaaay out of the loop, I know). He makes more money than most people I know, which is still insane to me.
When I was a kid, and before game designers figured out how to make a game hard without making it cheap, I used to have some rage issues with a few games. M Bison definitely took out a couple of SNES controllers, haha. Pilotwings may have claimed one too.
The last couple of games I got really, really into were Quake 2 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (I'm out of the loop, I KNOW). Playing Quake 2 online would get me pretty jumpy, but in a mostly good way. RtCW single player could get me pretty damn anxious, esp the espionage levels and some later bosses. Then maybe a year ago I played through it again for the hell of it, not giving a shit if I died or whatever. It was really fun, no anxiety at all. Occasional frustration at harder levels, but as soon as it wasn't fun, I bailed.
But these days I don't play anything more complicated than Words With Friends.