Did your parents care about the games you played growing up?

[Prince Luchini]

Did they actually looks at the rating system or lurk in the cut to see if you were playing some demonic shyt?

I know for a fact mines didn't my pops bought GTA4 for me back when I was 15. He didn't really give a shyt as long as I did good in school

What about y'all tho?

 

[chemicalsword]

Nope. I went to the best schools, great grades, played damn near every sport, Boy Scouts, active in the community, didn't let the streets negatively influence me so parents felt censoring video games, music, and movies were a non-issue...

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

When I was growing up games weren't as bad as they are today. By the time GTA 3 came around I was mature enough to where my parents didn't care as much (I was watching worse in movies). They didn't appreciate the cursing but for the most part, they never really had a problem with the violence. My pops was a gamer before me. When i was young I watched him play Doom, Zelda, Tomb Raider, Mario, and he stopped for a few years after Golden Eye. He picked the controller back up when Uncharted came out. Today his favorite games are the Uncharted Series, the Tomb Raider Reboot, and Red Dead Redemption. He still plays those over and over. Recently I put him on to the Telltale games and he liked those quite a bit but still prefers Uncharted and RDR over everything else. Actually, the only game I can think of that made him cringe a bit was the first time he saw me playing Condemned. He said something like "That game is a little too violent don't you think?" and I just kept playing.

 

[horizon]

No, my dad got me Metal Gear Solid when I was 4

 

[DPresidential]

Nope.

Just how much time I was on it.

 

[Chris Cool]

naw. mom would try to stunt in front of other parents though. my older half bro (not her son) came to stay with us Christmas break when gta 3 dropped. he went and got it but she had to physically buy it because he was only 15. we beat the shyt multiple times over vacation and then he goes back home.




now it's a few months later. friends of the family come and stay the weekend. they bring gta 3, but the father like: "this game is rated mature, i don't know if you should let him play" and my mom agrees. I'm sitting there like: what a p*ssy ass father for bringing that up. and at my mom. literally knew the codes by heart and shyt. they really ain't let me play it the whole weekend.




*fun fact the strict parenting didn't work. his daughter was slutted out on drugs and son was in and out of jail and shyt.

 

[Knowledge]

Nope, mine rented resident evil for me when it first came out and me and my dad teamed up to beat oddworld abes Exodus

 

[Zebruh]

Played everything short of GTA at 10 years old.

 

[Ciggavelli]

My mom (who I lived with as a child) and grandmother (who I lived with in my early teen years) were both very suspicious and aware of video game ratings and in-game violence. I had to save up, take my bike to the mall and hope the clerk wouldn't ID check me when I wanted an MA game (which I had to hide somewhere when I got home). Once I hit 16 though, I could play what I wanted.

My mom and grandma didn't care about PC games though, for some strange reason. I played the most violent shyt possible on PC. It was just console games that got their attention (thanks to Tipper Gore and Joe Lieberman ). I played Doom at like 10 years old with no problem. But if it was Mortal Kombat on a console?.... then hell no. That's probably why I'm a PC gamer primarily now. I grew up with that shyt. My mom wouldn't even buy me a SNES because she thought it would "brainwash" me (yeah, my mom is fukked up in the head, and that's why I lived with my grandma in my early teen years). But PC shyt...I could buy whatever I wanted. I guess a computer is "safer" than a console on a tv

My mom gets sucked in by the media (she's not very well read or educated) and the anti-video game movement in the 90s fukked my shyt up.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Did they actually looks at the rating system or lurk in the cut to see if you were playing some demonic shyt?

I know for a fact mines didn't my pops bought GTA4 for me back when I was 15. He didn't really give a shyt as long as I did good in school

What about y'all tho?

There was no videogame rating system when I was a kid, just the Nintendo seal of quality was all a nikka needed

My mom wasn't about that demonic shyt, so no dungeons and dragons, I wasn't given G.I hoes either.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Nope. I went to the best schools, great grades, played damn near every sport, Boy Scouts, active in the community, didn't let the streets negatively influence me so parents felt censoring video games, music, and movies were a non-issue...

You forgot to add you were molested

 

[THEREALBRAND]

You forgot to add you were molested

 

[Address_Unknown]

Around the time I started gaming in the NES era as a kid, my mom, while knowledgable enough to know the difference between a "Nintendo" and a "Genesis" since alot of older folk back then called EVERY game console a Nintendo back then, knew enough to make sure to cop whatever games for my console (NES/SNES) but wasn't too up on what I was playing, which in retrospect wasn't anything bad or violent. Zelda, RBI Baseball, Metroid, Contra, all that shyt, she just bought and went on her way.

The Snes came out and while me and my uncle (My first two consoles were in his room, which also gave me access to his VHS porn stash.) stayed playing shyt like Street Fighter and Samurai Showdown and what's not, my Mom's first concern about violent videogames got raised when I asked her to cop MK1. Now while the box art wasn't nothing but the dragon on the front, she saw me and my friends playing it one day, someone pulled off a fatality and while we all like "oooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" I look up, she in the doorway like
:AU_Snoop:"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She ain't kick up too much of a fuss about the shyts, outside of some half assed talk she had about how I shouldn't be playing a game where the objective is to rip someone's head off in a fight or some shyt, but I just let it (hype) cool down and continued playing.

I think the last major front she had on this was when I asked her to cop MK2 and the box looked like this.

She watching me like "You see the age limit on this, right? I bet you they got guns and people getting stabbed in this one. I ain't know if you should get it." despite already paying for the shyts and having it in the fukking house. I remember going ape shyt but calmed down when she said that she'd ask my "Father" about it, but my Dad's a fukking idiot and I know his answer would be like "He don't need to be playing no videogames, he needs to be in his 'book'." so I just let that shyt die until my uncle picked it up and I played it down by him.

I started buying my own consoles/games with my own money from hustling/saving lunch money/grocery store change so she ain't really had a say in what I played and never really kept up with it enough to censor shyt like she tried to do with music (Straight up jacked a breh's Crucial Conflict cassette!" but by then I already had my own tv and played my shyts away from her (Grandparent's house) so it was whatever, especially since I never got into any sort of serious trouble outside of regular ol kid mischief.

She grew a bit concerned when she saw GTA 3 in action for the first time 'cause my idiot little brother kept running out into the streets to start fist fights, gather everyone up in a corner and just ruin 'em all with a bat and when he'd get all the bodies on the floor, he'd just stay holding down the punch button and all the bodies would be jumping with the pixelated boxy blood spilling and he'd be laughing his ass off. But then again he was 6 Had to tilt the system when he tried to pick up a hooker and show her that shyt.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Nope

 

[chemicalsword]

You forgot to add you were molested

I did fukk my babysitter...
after college