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For a few years I want allowed to play GTA 3 through Vice City, dad allowed it after seeing it, mom saw the news and forbid it.

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always allowed to play everything (but still had a rough childhood). i chose not to play gta.

I probably wouldn't have been allowed an M-rated game, but there was never a specific one that I wanted and was prevented from getting.

My mom wasn't crazy about Melee, though.
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The only game my dad didnt want me to play (alone) was Scarface for the ps2.

GTA3 and other similar games were fine.
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Mortal Kombat. So went over to my friend Richie's and played it on PS1 there.
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Mortal Kombat, I think.

By the time GTA3 was out I was old enough to where it didn't make a difference (I was 14, my parents weren't paying attention to what I was playing by that point).
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Only one I can think of was Manhunt 2 because it was up for actual banning and my parents thought I'd be arrested for having it lol

I remember showing my dad Primal Rage and being worried when he was shocked. He just thought it was cool and was shocked video games could show stuff like that. He ended up being mad that the special moves were so complicated to pull, even with a move list.
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MasterGakke posted...

I remember showing my dad Primal Rage and being worried when he was shocked. He just thought it was cool and was shocked video games could show stuff like that. He ended up being mad that the special moves were so complicated.

That is a common complaint about the game.

Supposedly PR2 has better controls.

FUN FACT: There is not a single arcade-perfect port of the game because of the complicated DRM that it uses that no one's ever been able to work out.
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I never had my parents forbid me from playing a game. They were pretty clueless about video games though and had no idea what I played.
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by the time real mature games existed I was old enough I could play anything I wanted. but I remember one time as a kid I wanted to rent Castlevania. and my mom said it would give me nightmares. that was the only time I ever got banned from a game. she even later like maybe just a couple years later, let me rent Castlevania 3, I remember

They were oblivious, but my grandfather saw Vice City on the news and mentioned it to me. All he took away from it was that it was a murder-simulator where you kill Haitians. I don't remember how the conversation went but he didn't care that I played it, he just thought they were gonna take it off the shelves.
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I wasn't allowed any M rated games until I was 16 (even then, my first M game was Persona 3, which isn't all THAT bad in terms of why it was rated M). I also wasn't allowed to watch shows like Family Guy until I was around 15.

Because of that, plus being homeschooled for 4 years, I was rather sheltered and this led to me being bullied frequently when I finally went back to school.

Thanks, mom and dad.
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I remember my dad's brother married a super religious woman and she didn't allow her family to watch the shows we watched as a family like The Simpsons, The X-Files, NYPD Blue, and ER because they were promoting Satan. She also would try and convince my parents to not watch those shows and instead read the Bible as a family. My parents would mock the shit out of her behind her back at every opportunity.
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When I was 12 my dad got me GTA 3 for our PC. But my mom really did not like that. Lol
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My aunt bought us this SNES fighting game called Weaponlord or something, but my mom forbade us from playing it because it was rated T and we were too young.

I don't think I ever did play it even after I came of age, and I have no idea where it is now.
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None. My parents knew that I knew better.
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I've never been banned from playing a game.
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I was never really banned from playing anything. Hell sometimes my parents would surprise us with game rentals and let us go nuts with it. We'd even find them playing it. The one video game the whole family loved playing was toejam and earl
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I was allowed to play Postal 2 before GTA, odd I know haha.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

none, my parents didn't care enough to check what kind of games i played. they don't even know what the ESRB is.

This. I used to play Duke Nukem 3D on PC and they never noticed.
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