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Did your parents adhere to age restrictions on products?

Yeah but it was super inconsistent so I voted other

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They were pretty cautious about games and movies, but they also had a special exception which is that if I got something as a gift from a family member I was allowed to keep it. And that's the story of how I got Mortal Kombat 2 on the Genesis.

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If it didn't have nudity, my parents didn't care.

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Villain posted...

Yeah but it was super inconsistent so I voted other

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Umbreon posted...

If it didn't have nudity, my parents didn't care.

Also this. My parents didn't care about video games a lot because nudity wasn't really a thing in them when I was a kid (class of 2004 here)

They did opt for a restricted Blockbuster card so I couldn't rent R rated movies until I was 18 which was how old you had to be to get your own card.

They didn't bother with the V chip or any internet filters but that's due their lacking of tech at the time.

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When I was in 4th grade my mom weirdly didn't want me to read a Remo Williams The Destroyer novel because it had profanity and sex in it. It was really strange because I'd already seen sex in movies and heard every bit of profanity ever not just from entertainment but from friends at that point, because nothing else was ever off limits to us. I remember once my parents left Mad Max for us to watch around that age when we had a babysitter, and the babysitter even told them there was sex in it and they just shrugged it off. I pointed this out and got to read the book, of course. It wasn't even that good.

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No, my mom had almost zero restrictions on what I watched. She took me to see R-rated movies like Terminator, Starship Troopers, Predator, Alien(s), etc. Bought all the gory games with no problem. Bought me CDs with "explicit content" (hell, we'd jam out to those songs). Only thing she would do is make me close my eyes when some boobs came on the screen, even then it wasn't all the time and she probably knew I was peeking.

They kind of did for movies, within reason. Games, they never cared. I even explained that rating system to my mom when it first came out, because I felt like it was a move in the right direction for parents to know what their kid should, and should not be playing, and she didn't care at all.

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My parents didn't care at all what i played/watched.

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Not really

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Game ratings werent really much of a thing until I was 16 and had a job and just bought whatever I wanted game-wisealthough I would try to hide stuff that was M rated just to be safe, or put a sticker over the rating or something, lol.

They were fairly strict with movies growing up (again, until I was 16 and could just go to whatever movie or rent or buy whatever video) but they would let me see actiony PG13 movies when I was 11 or 12ish. Like Jurassic Park and such. But they didnt let me see R rated stuff at all.

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The only time they cared was when my dad wouldn't let me watch Species in sixth grade.

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They had a bias against movies. True lies strip/dance scene = bad while rest is ok, porn = obviously bad, full metal jacket = bad due to language only
Meanwhile here I am playing conker's bad fur day, manhunt, GTA 1,2,3,VC,SA, Silent hill series and the only bad thing about those games is when the caveman lady says 'boner' in bad fur day.

Seriously, out of all those things the mention of boners is suddenly where it becomes bad?

I don't find it surprising anymore considering the whole 'skin is sin, but violence is ok'. They had some skewed wackadoo rules anyways, like how I couldn't watch keenan and kel because they were black, only in more choice words. Meanwhile I can watch war movies/shows with people getting shot up.

I still don't understand their ruleset after 20+ years.