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Games you probably shouldn't have played as a kid

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CrashPrime

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my parents had every right of disapproving of certain games, but I played anything I could get my hands on and looking back, its fine. nothing hurt me.

I can see my parents not really wanting me to play stuff like BMX XXX or Manhunt, but its fine. I understood enough to not be "educated" by these games.
 
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gaiages

Banned
I played Drakengard when I was like 13 or 14 or some shit

Even censored to hell and back they couldn't hide the implications
 
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antitrop

Member
I was 13 when I played the first GTA.

That was still some tame shit, though. It wasn't like playing GTA V at 13 right now or anything.
 
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Budi

Member
Randy Monk said:
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I was 12 and the only definition of hooker I knew was a Rugby position.
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I was even bit younger than that when I played that game. But I don't agree that it's something I shouldn't have been playing. It's just sex. And the game did teach about protection too! Not to mention how much I learned english, not many 10 year old finnish kid knew the word prophylactic. Not sure if many adults know it either tbh.

But what had a negative impact, atleast in a sense it affected my sleeping through nightmares. Phantasmagoria

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That's not strawberry jam either what is about to get fed to her. And as you can see it's FMV so bit more realistic to watch than those Larry pixels :p Oh and the game had a rape scene too.
 
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MissCauthon

Member
Phantasmagoria haha my dad was laughing his head off while my mom... well lets just say if she could shoot lazers out of her eyes she would have burned dad to crisp. I think i remember more my dad really laughing his butt off than the actual game.
 
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GuitarAtomik

Member
I honestly don't think I've ever played one I was too young for. Gaming (well, console gaming) kind of "grew up" just about right along side me. I was like 17-18 when GTA3 came out. Mortal Kombat would be the closest example, but the graphics were so abstract compared to the real thing, and it was played up as goofy so it almost doesn't count.

My perspective might be skewed though since my parents were fine with me watching most R rated movies from a pretty young age.
 
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Reckless Abandon

Member
Duke Nukem. Although I loved it when I was a kid I can now as a parent definitely see how I wouldn't want my kid exposed to that at an early age.

I don't think it's bad enough to prohibit them from playing it until they are 17 or so, but 5 year olds shouldn't be messing around with it.
 
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Nyoro SF

Member
Probably not close to kid... but I was fairly young when I picked up Halo for the first time. I'm sure everyone remembers the section where the Flood appear for the first time and you have to escape; that scared the daylights out of me. That and the part afterwards where you have to move through pitch darkness to get to the Covenant airship. I probably should have waited to play that until I was older. Maybe.

I should also mention that I'm a huge wuss when it comes to horror elements and this may have had an impact on my psyche.
 
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-MD-

Member
Too many to count. I was playing Resident Evil, Conker and Duke Nukem at like 7-8 years old. Bought my own copy of Manhunt when I was 12.

Don't regret any of it though, I have nostalgia for all of those games and still revisit them.
 
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ChrisD

Member
Had a super-sheltered, Christian-parented childhood that almost prevented me from even playing Smash Bros Melee because it was rated Teen. As a result, I dont think there was anything out there that I played too young. Lots of stuff I missed out on because it was "bad" though; like the Harry Potter mentioned the OP, lol.
 
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Shivershorts

Member
Fix-It Felix said:
Conker's Bad Fur Day when I was seven. My mom hated the game, but my dad was okay with it and figured most of the jokes were going over my head.. which they were.
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DayEnder said:
Conker's Bad Fur Day. It was a great game, but I probably didn't get most of the jokes at the time.
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This is definitely the one for me. After recently thinking back on the game and realizing how absurdly crude and inappropriate it is, I bought it on eBay to relive it through adult eyes. Worth it.
 
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Peltz

Member
I don't think I played a single game that wasn't age appropriate now that I think about it. I really can't think of one.
 
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Hux1ey

Banned
I was 11 years old when I got GTA III with my PS2.

Mum didn't like when I asked why my car was rocking when I stopped it with a lovely lady inside.
 
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Poltergust

Member
For the longest time I had a weird relationship with House of the Dead 2 where I was deathly afraid of the game whenever I walked past the arcade at the local theater, but I couldn't take my eyes off of it.

I finally worked up the courage to just play the darn thing after several years.
 
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PillarEN

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heckmanimation said:
Virtual Valerie 2

Sex Tetris

LSL series

and

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I guess Mortal Kombat, BioHazard 1, and Doom weren't good to see either
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What kind of sorcerer is that kid that he couldn't cast sexy magic on that butterface on the left?

I never really tested my parents with out of bounds games. I do remember being surprised when I got Mortal Kombat 3 for Christmas. Thought that was pushing the bounds. You get lucky sometimes.
 
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Doominated

Member
Surprised I'm the first to mention Postal. I was like 5.

Also played Diablo 1 when I was 4 or 5, gave me nightmares but still wanted to play.
 
ThatStupidLion

ThatStupidLion

Member
PillarEN said:
What kind of sorcerer is that kid that he couldn't cast sexy magic on that butterface on the left?

I never really tested my parents with out of bounds games. I do remember being surprised when I got Mortal Kombat 3 for Christmas. Thought that was pushing the bounds. You get lucky sometimes.
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hey man! dont knock the pixel art, this game is probably older than you!

i wasn't the one requesting any of these games from my parents, i was only exposed due to having significantly older brothers. same reason i was made to watch Childs Play when I was 4 or 5.

virtual valerie i was probably like 12 or 14. so i was already a horny teen looking at porn
 
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Z..

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zephry said:
It would have to be Duke Nukem 3D for me. Strippers, porno movie theater, etc was just mindblowing for a game when it was released.
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This. I was 9 at the time and it was the first videogame I ever played for more than 5/10 mins (videogames were essentially forbidden but this came pre installed on my dad's new PC at the time and he never noticed it). Played it over and over and over again because it was all I had until a friend gave me a floppy disk with a GBA emulator and Pokemón/Harvest Moon ROMs on it about 3 years later.
 
kraspkibble

kraspkibble

Permabanned.
GTAIII. I was 10 when that came out and i remember my mum going crazy about it and my dad jokingly saying "i'll just play it. you're too young. you'll need to wait until you're 18".

GTA had such a positive influence on my life and not negative like the media would have you think. It got me so interested in exploring and made me want to travel the world. i love exploring real life cities to this day because of it.
 
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C.Mongler

Member
The first game I ever played that I probably shouldn't have was Turok when I was 7-years-old, but that game wasn't too bad I suppose. The first game I really shouldn't have been playing was Second Life at 13-years-old. I did the whole sign-up process to the point of just needing a credit card, so my mom didn't see the giant 18 PLUS ONLY warnings that preceded, and I just explained to her that I just wanted to use 10 dollars of my money to play this cool new game, which she didn't question. A year later I was sticking my virtual dick into all sorts of virtual ladies while pretending I was 23, as a real-life 14-year-old.
 
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Thatanas

Member
My cousin is 7 years older than me, my oldest brother is 5 years older than me. Needless to say, I saw (and played) a whole lot of games they were playing which were not suited for me. Doom, Half-Life, Resident Evil, Deus Ex and more are not games a <10 year old kid should be in touch with I don't think.

Didn't hurt me though.
 
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PillarEN

Member
heckmanimation said:
hey man! dont knock the pixel art, this game is probably older than you!

i wasn't the one requesting any of these games from my parents, i was only exposed due to having significantly older brothers. same reason i was made to watch Childs Play when I was 4 or 5.

virtual valerie i was probably like 12 or 14. so i was already a horny teen looking at porn
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Had to check but no. I'm older than it. Love some great pixel art myself.

Interesting enough, if you wanted to relive this game it's available to play in browser according to the bottom of the wikipedia page.
 
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mike6467

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Budi said:
I was even bit younger than that when I played that game. But I don't agree that it's something I shouldn't have been playing. It's just sex. And the game did teach about protection too! Not to mention how much I learned english, not many 10 year old finnish kid knew the word prophylactic. Not sure if many adults know it either tbh.

But what had a negative impact, atleast in a sense it affected my sleeping through nightmares. Phantasmagoria



That's not strawberry jam either what is about to get fed to her. And as you can see it's FMV so bit more realistic to watch than those Larry pixels :p Oh and the game had a rape scene too.
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Wow, yeah I started watching the Giantbomb playthrough of that game, not sure if they ever finished it, but I never saw that part. That's brutal, actually that might stick in my head even now and I'm a fan of horror. I guess certain topics are worse then others though...

I've never really understood the panic when kids see nudity. I remember my Mom being concerned when my Dad got a gift from a friend, it was a really nice, custom portrait of a women who happened to have an exposed nipple. Like, super classy, and the nipple was barely visible and undefined. It took awhile before she'd allow it in the house. I'm not sure what she thought would happen if I was around it regularly. If kids are seeing explicit, hardcore, very contextual sexual acts that appear to be (or just flat out are) demeaning or violent, THAT is a problem. Seeing genitals though? That's what's going to send them on a dark path?

So yeah, parents were conservative, but when it came to games my Mom generally trusted me and kind of acknowledged that games were helping me make friends, so she didn't step in too much. My Dad gave zero fucks either way. I do remember both Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot being suspect when I was 15 or so. Especially Everquest because we still had a landline and I had to ask to get on the internet, so they knew how much I was playing (and it inconvenienced them, even after we got a second line). After EQ was DAoC, which my Mom brought to me when it came in the mail, she was concerned because it looked like there was evil magic on the box. She just told me to watch what I put in my mind. And oh how I did, that game was amazing in a lot of ways.
 
eso76

eso76

Member
Parents thankfully didn't believe any videogame (released between 1976 and 1994) could harm me.
And most movies, for that matter.
They were right.

The only videogame my mother questioned was Double Dragon arcade: "so, you're this blue eyed, blonde guy beating up black guys (most enemies she saw were black)... beating them with baseball bats. I'm really not sure about this" and she thought we had to talk about it before letting me play it again.

I only remember being shocked by Dragons Lair. Back then, cartoons were that safe space where nothing bad could happen, nothing too violent or scary, not to the main character especially.
Seeing a Disney movie hero die (or slash enemy creatures) in gruesome ways when i was 8/9 was the scariest a game has ever made me. It gave me nightmares for days or weeks.
I also loved it though.
 
petran79

petran79

Banned
When I was 10 years old some teen with an Amiga booted Party Games

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=2853

You just had to waggle the joystick in order to play short hardcore porn clips.

But the game that had the most impact was this:

It was available on arcades in public places for kids to see. But nudity scenes and games were so funny. At an era where everyone was caught by surprise to enforce editing.

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NSWF

http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/arcade/03/165.htm

Had also Pocket Gal and Lady Killer

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As for violent games, Amiga was full of them. From cartoony to horror comic style.
Weird Dreams was the first game that creeped me out though. Especially that scene. Had a wasp phobia too as a kid due to various stings by that unpredictable insect.

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goddspawn

Neo Member
I remember going to bars with my parents and most of them had this Megatouch arcade game console with a bunch of touch screen games. One of the categories was Erotica I'd always pick when they weren't looking. :)
Some versions had the category locked by a passcode, which was almost always something simple like 0000 or 1234
 
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PlayALLtheGames

Banned
I remember when I was like 11 my grandma got me Mortal Kombat on Amiga and then I saw the "16 and up" or whatever it was symbol on the box and I told her about it like, "Can you believe that? That's so stupid!" and she was horrified and said we'd need to take the game back and I cried.

We never did take it back though and I was able to enjoy many more fatalities...after they loaded.
 
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