Topic: Games you weren't allowed to play in childhood.

My parents did not care or did they know really what type of 8 and 16 bit games I played as a kid.

there's been a scandal here in brazil and the dumb reporters are saiyng it's assassin's creed fault....if you want to convince your dad don't let him see foreign news! XD

I could never play a T game until i was 13. The game that i wanted and couldn't get was smash bros melee. I played it at a friends house and loved it but i couldnt convince my parents to let me have it when i was 10. But brawl came out a few days before my 13th birthday so that worked out well!

LOL, delightful. It's all relative, my friend.

For a few more specific stories, when I was really young I couldn't play Star Wars: Battlefront and Medal of Honor European Assult and Frontlie for the PS2, my older brother owned them, I watched him play them quite a bit. I remember, the day before I turned 8, my parents let me play Battlefront, I was so happy that day. A few years later I was allowed to play Medal of Honor.

For a while, basically anything rated over E. Other than Smash Bros.

Anything considered objectional in my childhood was near mythical. 'Rumors' on the playground of dirty Atari games out there somewhere was the extent of it. I wasn't aware they actually did exist before the internet came around.

When I was five I played educational games, bloody, gory RPG's, and FPS's. I outgrew those by age 7.

I am 15 so i can't play rated m games( yet i can watch others play things like resident evil), my parents aren't like most and won't let me play them but i wouldn't anyway, they all bore me. I am a nintendo fanboy and proud of it. I was always allowed to play T games though. I find it really stupid that people think that way about pokemon it's a classic franchise and one of my favorites. My best friend's parents are super Christian but aren't against those types of games.

Some dino game for the Genesis, can't remember....think it was Primal Rage or something. Mainly because it had blood in and all that...yeah this was back then as a kid. They don't care what I play now, just as long my sister isn't around when I play the M-rated games. (which is rare anyways)

I've been able to play M games since I was 11 (I'm 14), but the only M games I own are Turok (2 64 games, 1 GC, 1 360), Perfect Dark 64, and Shin Megami Tensei IV. However, my brother is the stereotypical "gore=hardcoreeee" type of person who buys every COD and M game h sees. T or E is too kiddie for him...

I wasn't allowed to play T games until I was 13 and couldn't get M games until I had a job (as I paid for them myself). I didn't mind.

I think the most controversial game was my dad's copy of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, but even that I was allowed to play if they were watching.

As a little kid, I just played whatever they got me for Christmas or my birthday (I never actually asked for games, or looked up info on them), so there were never any conflicts of interest. Mostly got stuff like Pokémon, Mario, Kirby, WWF, and the like, but my dad actually got me two N64 Turok games for some reason one year.

It wasn't until I was 11 or 12 that I really started looking into games myself, and since I never got into trouble & always had good grades, they had no problem letting me play "T" games. They never even looked at the descriptors (the rating on the front was all that mattered to them). I never actually tried buying an "M" game though, as I was getting big into JRPGs & DBZ fighting games at the time, which are by and large an "E10+" - "T" territory.

I'm an adult now, so they don't care one way or the other what I play.

My parents can barely understand English. I could play whatever I wanted.

wtf ewww

I don't recall ever running into a situation where my parents would tell me I couldn't get a game because of its age rating, and I can only think of a couple of times when it came up with movies. Neither of my parents were particularly restrictive about what I could read, watch or play.

It probably helps that I only occasionally gravitated towards games with "M" ratings, and that in-game blood was largely pixelated and/or cartoonish for most of my childhood anyway, so it wasn't really an issue that had to be tested all that much. Had I been, say, 8 when Resident Evil 4 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas came out instead of 16/17, I probably would've had a tougher time getting my hands on them.

^ Johnny Depp's finest moment.

My grandpa is Christian and very religious (he always is trying to get me to read the bible or preaching Christianity to me) but hes completely fine with me playing pokemon or any other games.

When I was little I wasn't allowd to play ocarina of time on the n64, but I was 3 then so I guess its understandible

lol When I was 6 o 7 the Forest Temple scared the shizniz out of me, so that's a bit understandable.

Okay. Anyone want to know why Pokemon is shunned by many Christians? Here's the guy who seemed to have started it all.

Now, clearly there are so many darn misunderstandings by this man, it cringes me to think how this happened. My first guess would be that his kid was playing the new video game "Poh-Kee-Mon", and told him to tell him what he was playing. Perhaps the child didn't quite understand what was happening on the screen and said it was "magic", and the Pokemon gave him "magical powers" to kill others in battle. Now I'll have you know, this is before the anime came out, or at least he has not seen the anime, otherwise he'd realize what Pokemon REALLY do (in the context of fiction).

Even though the uploader added clips of the anime into the video, I highly doubt the pastor knew about the anime. That kind of misinformation probably could only come from a child and/or 8-bits (which might be incomprehensible to some people).

Pokemon does not regularly contain any magic, dark powers, and it is not made by the devil, it was made by Gamefreak. There a few Pokemon whom have creepy powers, magical skills, and its design may reference something hell-bound (like ghost-types and Houndoom), but the ones that do are usually culturally based, not biblically based unless the Bible characters has made it that far in culture to become a Pokemon.

I had Christian parents, I went to a Christian private school. My parents let me play Pokemon. In fact it was one of my favorite video games, and imagine how awkward that would be in a Christian private school. I don't know if my parents heard the myths, or just thought those myths were silly. The only thing close thing to disaproval was when my mother told me "Don't physically fight others for fun like Pokemon do".

Look at me, windbagging again.