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Joined: Mar 18 2010 Location: Tuonela Posts: 299

... but you played anyway. How did they affect you?

I beat the shit out of Duke Nukem 3D when I was 11. Some parts, especially the ones dealing with aliens that crawl up you face made me genuinely scared and gave me tons of nightmares. However, peer preasure, tits and guns, so who cares.

(I'd like to point out at this point, that I am a vegetarian male feminist, who is for tighter gun control.)

Of course, everybody played Wolfenstein 3D way before that.

I also had the pleasure of being young enough (11 or 12) to be scared of the original Resident Evil. Played through it of course on the pc. Fewer nightmares than with Duke Nukem, but I recall sometimes being scared of zombies when I walked home in the dark.

Posted: Mar 21 2013 12:09 pm

I am guessing that a wide variety of games I played as a kid my parents, mother in particular, would not have been so thrilled with me playing had they known what they were all about. The home console games for instance like
N.A.R.C. (nothing like blowing people up and body parts flying around)
or arcade games with similar gore
MK I, II, III etc
Time Killers
Bloodstorm

But who didn't love those games?

Posted: Mar 21 2013 02:25 pm

The only game my mother took from me was GTA II for PSone. She just thought it was too violent and i think she wasn't even that wrong.

Posted: Mar 21 2013 04:24 pm

I played the crap out of Duke Nukem: Zero Hour when I was like eight. I was actually pretty scared by the zombies. My mom knew I had the game but didn't know what it was and never saw me playing it.

Played Resident Evil 3 all the time at a friends house. We never beat it because we were terrified of Nemesis.

The only game I was strictly forbidden to play was GTA 3, but eventually my brother bought it and convinced my mom it alright for me to play.

Posted: Mar 21 2013 06:14 pm

My parents didn't care what games I played. They knew that I understood their (mostly) fictional nature. As long as homework and chores were done, I had free reign.

Posted: Mar 21 2013 06:16 pm

Fiction can still hurt your mind.

Posted: Mar 21 2013 06:21 pm

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

Fiction can still hurt your mind.

They knew I wasn't a dumbass and could tell the difference between right and wrong.

Also, my dad had a super insane game collection that I got when he died. Sadly, most of it was destroyed during a hurricane in the past year.

Posted: Mar 22 2013 12:22 am

Any of them. My parents were annoyed as shit by how much time I spent playing video games.

Posted: Mar 22 2013 12:41 am

@om*d wrote:

My parents didn't care what games I played. They knew that I understood their (mostly) fictional nature. As long as homework and chores were done, I had free reign.

My parents were the same way. I'd first played Mortal Kombat when I was three and the first three PS2 games my parents got for me when I was eleven were Resident Evil Code: Veronica X, Metal Gear Solid 2, and GTA: Vice City. I think they knew that I'd long since established the difference between fantasy and reality. My mom did get super pissed when the whole Hot Coffee mod for GTA: San Andreas was in news headlines and she thought I had access to it, though.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

My mom was never really a fan of me killing humans in games in a semi-realistic setting. I was a smart kid, and my dad wouldn't let me play or watch Doom unless he was in the same room or something. I even played Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES with my dad and sister a lot. Once I got older, they realized I was well-adjusted enough to deal with it, but even today, my mom doesn't really like games where I kill other people in them.

Though, she did get really into watching me play Spec Ops: The Line when I was playing it (had to live with them for a while to clear up some family problems out of state). I think she was okay with it a little bit more after that context of it being part of a story (helped that she's read Heart of Darkness like 40 times; it was always sitting on a coffee table or night stand at home). Dad even told me that she got curious and started goofing around with my PS3, since I left it there. I guess I kind of veered off, there.

Posted: Mar 22 2013 07:30 am

I never had any restrictions on me. But I was like 12/13 when these (what would now be considered) M-rated games started coming out, so it wasn't really an issue. My parents were way more concerned with nudity/language than violence. As such, I wasn't allowed to rent R-rated movies until I was 16.

My sister on the other hand, had all sorts of games she wasn't allowed to play/watch, and it was mostly me and my brother's jobs to enforce this. I would let her watch me play Resident Evil GCN even though she was supposed to, because the point was moot. It had come with a free Prima guide for some reason, which I had tossed aside because Prima sucks. She had found it and read it religiously, so there was little point in not letting her watch me play. She would have been 9/10 around this time.

I also let her play Diablo 2 when no one else was around, because whatever. Diablo was a rich fantasy setting that was probably too scary for her at times, but it wasn't really offensive in any way. She was 7/8 around this time. I actually had to copy/hide her character data, because Jeebus would delete her character if he saw it on the computer.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Syd Lexia wrote:

I never had any restrictions on me. But I was like 12/13 when these (what would now be considered) M-rated games started coming out, so it wasn't really an issue. My parents were way more concerned with nudity/language than violence. As such, I wasn't allowed to rent R-rated movies until I was 16.

It was pretty much the same way for me. I remember gorging on the Die Hard Trilogy in high school, thanks to my new driver's license and the local video store. Caught up on a lot of R movies around then, but there are still a lot of gaps when it comes to classic R rated films for me. I played plenty of mortal kombat though without much resistance from my parents!

Posted: Mar 22 2013 10:39 am

The real key to all of this for me in regards to owning and playing these violent games...
An older brother that is 13 years older than I am. This is also why by 3rd grade I had on cassette Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls & Dr. Feelgood, Poison - Open Up and Say AHHH & Flesh and Blood, Metallica - Ride the Lightning, Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Mob Rules, and Heaven & Hell and a subscription to Sports Illustrated where I received as my free gift a VHS of the making of the swimsuit edition for that year.

Posted: Mar 22 2013 01:01 pm

I didn't really have any restriction. Hell the video store was more restrictive than my Dad who told them to stop calling him at work, which happened constantly during the summer, if I tried to rent M rated games and to just let me rent the damn things no questions asked. The video store didn't really like it but they but something on my account so that I never had him get called again. Of course this meant my brother got to play all the same stuff but he was only 3 years younger than me and the only really "M" rated games we played were Perfect Dark and Resident Evil I think. There really weren't many of them back then, we just rented Perfect Dark a lot.

Posted: Mar 22 2013 01:09 pm

I don't think there was a such thing as an M-rated video game till I was at least 17.

Posted: Mar 22 2013 03:23 pm

I had very few restricitons when it came to video games as well. part of that might have been because my parents only really knew and played NES so I'm not sure they knew exactly what GTA: III and Vice City were like because I don't know if they could have pictured games like that.
My parents were concerned with Nudity (mom seemed more concerned about this) and language(dad hated when I watched movies when I was younger with a lot of swearing, mom didn't care so much). I was allowed to watch R rated movies when I was in grade 6, but it was pretty much always on the condition that my mom had already seen it and didn't think it would damage me too much. It was mostly movies like Die Hard, Commando, Raw Deal, Terminator, Rambo. The big action movies didn't bother her.
The only time I really remember being flat out denied watching a movie was when I wanted to rent Deliverance, my mom was not having any of that when I was like 12.

Posted: Mar 22 2013 05:49 pm

I lived with my Uncle when the PS1 came out, and I had no restrictions whatsoever. He was also a big gamer, and the way we looked at it was the more realistic the better. We played through the first Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 1 and 2. Good times. Also, on my own I played Legacy Of Kain. I had a lot of fun with the PS1, many fond memories.

Posted: Mar 24 2013 12:09 pm

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I also let her play Diablo 2 when no one else was around, because whatever. Diablo was a rich fantasy setting that was probably too scary for her at times, but it wasn't really offensive in any way. She was 7/8 around this time. I actually had to copy/hide her character data, because Jeebus would delete her character if he saw it on the computer.

Yknow, I don't think I EVER found that game too scary. It was a personal favorite. So thank you for hiding/copying my character data. I was unaware of this. Or maybe I wasn't at the time but I have a terrible memory.

I think the biggest irony of this is that Jeebus is the one who gave me Diablo III, but I'm legally an adult at this point so I guess it makes sense.

Posted: Mar 24 2013 12:12 pm

When I was a kid games were about jumping over rainbows, picking up little hearts and shotting pebbles

Posted: Mar 29 2013 03:59 am

I don't recall having many restrictions, I remember playing Leisure Suit Larry, Doom, Duke Nukem, listening to like Slayer, Gwar, Marilyn Manson, Cannibal Corpse, all around like 11 - 13 years old, which was probably not appropriate despite however cool I thought it was at the time.

In fact one of my earlier memories is my dad plunking me down in front of the TV to distract me, and I watched some super violent Anime. I was like 6 or something. From my hazy memories it seemed to be either Fist of the North Star, or Akira.

Not sure where he got a copy of it, as it was the late 80s, and those didn't hit VHS in the states until the 90's according to Wikipedia, maybe he got a bootleg or an import or something. Or it was some other super violent anime. Either way super violent anime is probably not for six year olds.

I don't really remember if he was just an idiot who didn't realize it wasn't for kids, or a maladjusted jerk who thought it was funny to freak out his kid.

Wait no he was a jerk, I just remembered he let me watch like The Blob and Nightmare on Elm Street and other slasher flicks at that age too.

I'm pretty conservative now that I'm older, and I'd never let any of my kids do half the stuff I did, if I ever have any. Even if I don't I still probably won't let them.

Posted: Mar 29 2013 12:09 pm

When Mega Man 5 first came out, my Mom didn't want me playing it because she was afraid Napalm Man would have a bad influence on me or something. I didn't play it or the next one until 1997.

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

jprime wrote:

When Mega Man 5 first came out, my Mom didn't want me playing it because she was afraid Napalm Man would have a bad influence on me or something. I didn't play it or the next one until 1997.

That's hysterical.

Posted: Mar 30 2013 05:33 pm

I wonder if they'll make a Mega Man game with Marijuana Man.

Posted: Apr 01 2013 11:04 am

First one to come to mind is this:

http://www.whipassgaming.com/genesisreviews/eternalchamp_demo.htm

Only my dad knew about it, and he was just sort of "eh, whatev" about it.

I don't think my mom knew about it...that's probably for the best.

As for my reaction, I was...kind of interested. But a few of them were a bit jarring.

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

I remember my mom getting upset when she saw me playing Killer Instinct and said I shouldn't play it anymore. But then my dad reversed that decision because he really liked playing Killer Instinct and didn't think it was near as fun playing by himself.