Did your parents ever pay attention to ESRB or PEGI ratings or were you allowed to play anything you wanted?

No
Mum bought me Vice City

CEET
MARP

>>713510312 (OP)
I didn't tell them what they meant lmao

>>713510312 (OP)
Yes. Mom would. She would even hang out for the first hour or so to monitor and would talk to me about the game and themes. Nothing profound but stuff along the lines of
>You know killing people is bad, right?
>Drugs can and do ruin lives.
>Please don't pick up those swear words.

A few games she even showed a bit of a passing interest and wanted to know a little more about the story. I can't really remember anything too specific bit I do remember talking about video games quite a bit with her. Dad got super into the first Diablo too and we would play it together on his lunch break.

>>713510312 (OP)
dad got me mortal kombat when I was 8 after I showed it to him in a gaming magazine

Is there any real distinction between M and AO?

I was not allowed to play mature game before high school, because there was an infamous incident in my class where a special needs kid forced his little sister to suck his dick and my parents were absolutely convinced this only happened because games like GTA had corrupted his mind.

>>713510778
m is halo, ao is literal porn games

>>713510312 (OP)
CEET MARP can suck my dick
PEGI GANG

Back when I was a 14, I wanted to get Halo 2 and the fat neckbeard manning the store refused to sell it to me without ID (looking back I think he was just mad a kid wanted to buy Halo)
Came back the next day on the weekend with mom in tow to buy it, and the guy literally tried to convince my mother not to buy it with every little trick he could (it's too violent, we have another game just as good, etc).
I ended up getting it, but it permanently soured my opinion on that type of person.

>>713510312 (OP)
I was never allowed M-rated games, R-rated movies, etc. It made me even more of a social outcast than I already was, not being familiar with anything the cool kids talked about like Resident Evil or South Park.

>>713510312 (OP)
>says CEET MARP
>is actually eCE10+ET MAoRP

What did he mean by this?

>>713510778
Yes. If a guy implies he masturbates it's M.
If a girl implies she masturbates it's AO.

Walmart carries games rated M. They do not carry games rated AO. Having your game rated as AO is a death mark.

mother did a classic karen bit the first time she saw me playing GTA at my uncle's, but wasn't against it. Then again, never really knew much about gaming in general.

>>713510615
id be worried if you had to. the label is pretty self explanatory.

Not for literal years until one day in elementary school when I said I'd shoot a kid with a PP27 (James Bond pistol) out of anger and then it was bye bye to access to M rated games for like, 2-3 years but they eventually caved and went back to not giving a shit.

>>713510312 (OP)
No. My mother did not care for me at all and often left for weeks. Father was not present at all.

>>713510312 (OP)
My parents let me play stuff like GTA and Mortal Kombat but didn't let me have Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.

The only rating I will use for my kids is if its based (B) or cringe (C).

>>713512679
and since then ill bet youve cultivated a flourishing career and have contributed a lot to society

>>713512771
So you're not allowed to visit them?

>>713512782
Have (You)?

>>713512671
Not if you're ESL and have ESL boomer parents

>>713510312 (OP)
Yes, my mum was one of those "violent games cause violence" type of people and was anal about the PEGI ratings, I wasn't even allowed Brawl or Twilight Princess because I was 9 and they were rated 12+. By only allowing me to play bing bing wahoo she basically turned me into an autistic tendie and even now when I can play whatever I want I still gravitate towards Japanese weeb shit almost exclusively and completely avoid western games. Maybe I would have been different if I were allowed to play Cowadooty and GTA like everyone else

>>713513038
Anon I'm gonna be honest, you were always going to be an autistic retard.

>>713510312 (OP)
Game rating organizations didn't exist back then and my father had nude pinups on the walls of the computer room and didn't care if I played Strip Poker on the Atari 800.

>>713513038
>>713511138
It's really funny reading posts like these. I was playing Brawl at 6 on launch after having played extensive amounts of Melee and by the time my cousin was 14 he had played Halo for many years and would let me play whenever I came over (starting from ages 4-5). It's really weird to picture a teenager being treated like a little kid. The only thing my parents were weird about was me watching South Park but by the time I was 10-11 they didn't care. That must suck to be treated like a little kid into your teens when you're well into puberty (like I was).

>>713510312 (OP)
>be 9
>walk into toy store
>see gta san andreas for 10 euros
>take it to the till
>dude looks at it for a second
>"you shouldnt do this irl, you know that right?"
>"nah i wont"
>"cool, thatll be 10 euros."
Literally no one cared

My parents bought me the AO version of San Andreas when I was 8 and didn't give a single shit but they'd go ballistic if they found out I was playing a game with literally any form of online whatsoever because they thought I'd give out my home address and pictures of my asshole to strangers if I spend even 5 seconds online unsupervised.

>>713510312 (OP)
I paid more attention to the ratings than I probably should've.

burp

>>713512426
i don’t think any games are AO unless the contain pornographic material. the only one i can think of that doesn’t is Hatred.

>>713510312 (OP)
Yes, they were extremely anal about it and whats worse it wasn't PEGI but USK

>>713510312 (OP)
When I was a kid, video game ratings didn't exist.

>>713510312 (OP)
My parents already exposed me to shit via fantasy novels and their weird 80s movies so video games were fairly tame. By the time legit hardcore M games like Manhunt were hitting I already filtered myself from it because it just wasn't my thing.
I do remember getting ID'd for Left 4 Dead though, that was fucking weird. Of all the games I've bought in store THAT was the one the clerk raised an eyerbrow at.

Remember when the ESRB ratings had these weird pixels around the letters?

>>713521340
>the ms paint spraycan aesthetic
kino...

>>713510312 (OP)
no and thank god for that. thank fucking god
dad still snapped my GTA SA disc when he found out I hated a nog npc (the one that mysteriously always drives pickup truck and always, always rams into you). also did the same for bully because he found me going apeshit on the nog jocks (I hated getting hit for no reason)

>get new console
>set up parental controls
>this prevents mom from setting up parental controls

>>713522351
that's actually quite clever. a good way to get whipped for being a smartass
too bad it wouldn't work today since they'd just format it, or contact support to have it unlocked

>>713510312 (OP)
CEETMARP