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ESRB ratings when you were a kid.
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Didn't care too much, I had a plethora of older family members so by one way or another, i was being exposed to stuff.
saw ticks by age 4, played resident evil at age 5 (scared the pants off me at the time) and got conkers bad fur day on release, so yeah, wasn't too worried about all that.
shielding your child from that crap hardly works anyways, school/society will expose it to them one way or another.
saw ticks by age 4, played resident evil at age 5 (scared the pants off me at the time) and got conkers bad fur day on release, so yeah, wasn't too worried about all that.
shielding your child from that crap hardly works anyways, school/society will expose it to them one way or another.
my dad would honestly yell at me for playing too much super smash bros, and when i came up to him with a copy of dead or alive 4 he just instantly said nope, fucking asshole.
the funniest thing is that he actually had a hacked x-box which had dead or alive beach volleyboll, with a nude mod, i was always confused going to the shop and there being nothing there to buy, and one day my dad even came up and said " hey turn off the x-box im gonna give the woman clothes", at which point i asked why, he replied "do you honestly want this?"
funny enough the game was zoomed in on kristies dark nipples when he asked that. i said ok, and never thought about it until years later, when i realised i had a nude mod for doa volleyball and willingly had it taken away.
i did like the game though, even if i sucked at it.
the funniest thing is that he actually had a hacked x-box which had dead or alive beach volleyboll, with a nude mod, i was always confused going to the shop and there being nothing there to buy, and one day my dad even came up and said " hey turn off the x-box im gonna give the woman clothes", at which point i asked why, he replied "do you honestly want this?"
funny enough the game was zoomed in on kristies dark nipples when he asked that. i said ok, and never thought about it until years later, when i realised i had a nude mod for doa volleyball and willingly had it taken away.
i did like the game though, even if i sucked at it.
I think my parents stuck to it for longer than most of my friend's parent's did but even back when they tried to monitor my gaming one or two items slipped their radar.
I think it's probably safe to admit that when I was still in school most of my games were copied, my cousin knew someone and either I or my parents would give them the cash to pass over to their friend. I think all, if not most of the actual content of the titles were child friendly, the guy who copied them liked to put his personal touch to the games he sold however, it appeared just after the sony logo and it most certainly was not child friendly.
I also got afew second hand titles from friends of the family and the like, one of which was the die hard trilogy, which I don't really remember much about despite playing one of them over and over at one point, based on the films though I expect there was some foul language which im sure my parents would have been apauled by.
nothing was overtly allowed up until my gran bought me a copy of mortal kombat when I was about sixteen, but I suppose there wasnt far to go before I would have been legally allowed to buy one for myself anyway.
I think it's probably safe to admit that when I was still in school most of my games were copied, my cousin knew someone and either I or my parents would give them the cash to pass over to their friend. I think all, if not most of the actual content of the titles were child friendly, the guy who copied them liked to put his personal touch to the games he sold however, it appeared just after the sony logo and it most certainly was not child friendly.
I also got afew second hand titles from friends of the family and the like, one of which was the die hard trilogy, which I don't really remember much about despite playing one of them over and over at one point, based on the films though I expect there was some foul language which im sure my parents would have been apauled by.
nothing was overtly allowed up until my gran bought me a copy of mortal kombat when I was about sixteen, but I suppose there wasnt far to go before I would have been legally allowed to buy one for myself anyway.
My mother cared.
Basically, anything with an 18+ or M rating was strictly off-limits until a couple of years ago.
Essentially, this meant that I played something like Fallout 3 or Bioshock when my parents went for a drive or something.
Basically, anything with an 18+ or M rating was strictly off-limits until a couple of years ago.
Essentially, this meant that I played something like Fallout 3 or Bioshock when my parents went for a drive or something.
My parents didn't want me playing things that were too violent (the games with sexual stuff pretty much hadn't surfaced yet, and didn't interest me anyway), but they also didn't want me spending too much time on the computer in general. I remember begging for Halo PC when it came out, saving up $40 for it, and my dad finally let me buy it on a trip to Walmart one day. In the car on the way home though, my dad asked my brother what the game was like, my brother gave it, and my dad pretty much immediately said "we're taking the game back as soon as we get the chance, don't open the box." Me being the super eager 13-year-old, I'd already opened the game and started to pour over the little booklet that came with it, and my dad was pretty pissed.
He took it away for a couple weeks, then after I got on his case about it, he finally relented and let me install it on the condition that he be allowed to sit and watch my first few sessions (and naturally I agreed.) On the first session, after watching me play through the first couple levels, he asked me something like "you know that this is just a game, and that you're not supposed to shoot people right," to which I gave him the most condescending stare I could muster. After that, I only had to argue with him about the amount of time I spent playing, never about content.
He took it away for a couple weeks, then after I got on his case about it, he finally relented and let me install it on the condition that he be allowed to sit and watch my first few sessions (and naturally I agreed.) On the first session, after watching me play through the first couple levels, he asked me something like "you know that this is just a game, and that you're not supposed to shoot people right," to which I gave him the most condescending stare I could muster. After that, I only had to argue with him about the amount of time I spent playing, never about content.
The ESRB wasn't really a thing when I was a kid. It was founded in 1994 and wasn't really a big thing until after Columbine. I don't know that my mom ever checked ratings, and I didn't care myself. I played Doom back in the day and stuff, but I was already a teen and my parents were fine with me watching R-Rated movies (but not porn, because sex is bad), because they figured I could handle it.
Same with explicit music and stuff. I earned my parents' trust and as such they treated me like I was trustworthy.
Now, get off my damn lawn, you punk kids!
Same with explicit music and stuff. I earned my parents' trust and as such they treated me like I was trustworthy.
Now, get off my damn lawn, you punk kids!
My parents didn't care about violence or language, even hinted sexual content was OK. I was a sweet little girl who was never prone to violence - I doubt my parents ever considered, that GTA might make me a hardened brutal criminal.
If some games had pointless and realistic violence (killing innocents, burning people alive), I would turn off the game myself. Don't like seeing people in pain.
Personally, I never saw the point of ESRB ratings. Children's minds are a lot less fragile than people believe - and they are perfectly capable of understanding difference between fiction and reality. Dismembered corpse in a video game is nothing compared to divorcing and shouting parents. The later is going to be nightmare material, the former forgotten in a couple days.
If some games had pointless and realistic violence (killing innocents, burning people alive), I would turn off the game myself. Don't like seeing people in pain.
Personally, I never saw the point of ESRB ratings. Children's minds are a lot less fragile than people believe - and they are perfectly capable of understanding difference between fiction and reality. Dismembered corpse in a video game is nothing compared to divorcing and shouting parents. The later is going to be nightmare material, the former forgotten in a couple days.
I could only play T-rated games or lower until I was literally 17. It was the same thing with R-rated movies. My mother was a hawk when it came to that sort of thing. Dad, not so much, but he always conceded to her will on this, and I can't really blame him, knowing the temper on that woman.
They pretty much only let me play "appropriate" games until my stepsister started sharing her games with me and, well, after that they kind of gave up.
Our mom was a bigger gamer than us in the 80's and early 90's... mostly because she was bigger so she'd get the controller. She didn't have any issues with games, at all. She did have issue with some anime we rented, but when it's on the shelf of Blockbuster and has a nice, normal cover... you just never know. We didn't have a clue either, really. Only once did she ever get up and turn off the VCR and return a tape.
Our family did have a blast with GTA III though. I think mom saw me beating up a hooker and sat down and watched for a few hours to laugh. I must have been in my mid to late teens when it came out, though.
Our family did have a blast with GTA III though. I think mom saw me beating up a hooker and sat down and watched for a few hours to laugh. I must have been in my mid to late teens when it came out, though.
One of the first games I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D on MCDOS. When I was three.
... I'm no expert, but I think that might be a "no".
... I'm no expert, but I think that might be a "no".
Not really. Also, obligatory, 'When I was a kid they had just invented the ESRB, damn Mortal Combat and its blood ruinin' it for the rest of us!'
Me parents (especially me Dad) didn't really care about me watching things with violence and swearing as long as I didn't repeat what I saw (which I usually didn't) but they wouldn't let me watch stuff with sex or drugs.
I remember me Mom not buying GTA: Vice City because of the prostitutes in it but then she moved in with me Step-Dad who's son had Vice City at the time and I played the shit out of it.
I remember me Mom not buying GTA: Vice City because of the prostitutes in it but then she moved in with me Step-Dad who's son had Vice City at the time and I played the shit out of it.