Which game did you play way too young?

[Deleted member 924886]

Back then, getting hold of age-restricted content wasn't so easy. There was little to no internet, no key shops, no Steam. Back then, unless you were 16 or 18, or the stores didn't care, you needed someone to buy GTA, CoD, MoH and the like for you. Which game did you buy way too young? For me, it was definitely Turok 2. We had an N64 in the early 2000s. Back then, you could buy a surprise game from one of the big mail-order companies for, I think, 20 £. You basically had no idea what you were getting. That's how I got Turok 2, at the tender age of 7 or 8. Completely over the top blood and brutal the game captivated me with its atmosphere. The swamp level, in particular, really scared me. Ironically, I got significantly further in this game than in Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Back then, my Dad always had something to say whenever he sees me playing Bloody Roar 2 and other games with blood for that matter. Yet he let me watch him play the classic RE games when I was young.

 

[Vreeves]

Definitely GTA Vice City and Carmageddon 2.

 

[Tonberry]

The introduction to Max Payne 1 messed kid me up so bad I just had to up and leave my friends house and went home crying.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I shouldn't have been gunning down foreigners at 6.

Oh! You meant video games!

Seriously, Wolfenstein 3D and Alone In The Dark reached me way too young.

 

[Urpazurpa]

i tecnically didn't play it, but my parents used to play Re2 infront of me. they used to tell me that the zombies where ensunrance selleres

 

[Deleted member 924886]

The introduction to Max Payne 1 messed kid me up so bad I just had to up and leave my friends house and went home crying.

Max Payne is a brutal game. I think it's not suitable for children.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

I'm gonna go a different route with this and say Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI on PS1 lmao. I rented it when I was like 7 and had no clue what the hell that type of game was. I was too dumb to figure it out lmao

 

[random0nonsense]

The original Leisure Suit Larry. My friend's teenage brother bought it when we were approximately 10 & 11 and we managed to launch it when no one was home. We didn't really get it, but I do remember the death animation from paying for the prostitute.

 

[Graw]

Probably way too many. I played Duke Nukem 3D at like 8 or 9 years old and Diablo 1 around the same time. My dad was kind of lax with that kind of thing. I played probably most of the M rated n64 games that existed in the same age range. Games like all the Turok games, Nightmare Creatures, Resident Evil 2, Duke Nukem Zero Hour, Doom, Quake, a bunch more i can't even remember and for some reason my dad thought it would be a good idea to get me Conker's Bad Fur Day for my birthday the year it came out. Apparently he missed the giant warning label on the front of the box. My mom was pretty pissed off about it but I ended up being allowed to play it anyway.

 

[Kovlak]

The OG Resident Evil 2.

It made very young me like

for a while.

 

[draigodon]

Hoo boy i get to say it after decades now and it feels good telling it. Resident evil 2.
You can blame the lack of parentage at the time(not that it was ever there really) i was egged on by one family member to play re2 on rentals. Now bearing in mind that this rental never came with a manual so imagine the surprise i had being placed in the middle of Racoon's barbecued roads littered with zombies only to ask one question.

"Wait how do i shoot?, HOW DO I SHOOT? HOW DO I SHOOT???"

Yeahh beyond being given a self crash course with tank movement, my young eyes really were not ready for seeing poor leon and claire getting eaten and if you've seen that blood splatter followed with "You are dead" it leaves a hell of an impression. That had me in tears. I cried.

Never stopped me from coming back and finally learning how to aim and fire. Taking Kendos shotgun, shotgunning that licker in that corridor 1st time was nerve racking but god damn it felt amazing...my 1st baby steps before getting my feet wet in the likes of RE3 Nemesis, Dino Crisis, Parasite Eve and Silent Hill.

And after going back to RPD in RE9 I cried again, I heard those familiar keys and i sobbed, not out of fear anymore but because i came back home after decades and i remembered again.
Video games were my teacher and horror games taught me to be brave

 

[solnK!]

Oooff, too many to count
GTA games and Bloody Roar are a must have on any latinoamerican childhood.
A lot of N64 titles like the Turok games and Shadowman.
It seems like RE 2 was a canon event for many of us here.

 

[wetformommy]

its either vice city or lula inside i forgot which one i came across first

 

[Vardalis]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was probably my biggest one. Granted, I had zero idea what was going on for the most part until playing it again later in life and probably did very little aside from driving around and using cheats, but I absolutely should not have been playing it. The same goes for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas when I got that on launch day somehow.

To a lesser extent I'd say stuff like Resident Evil games or Silent Hill games, but that was more from a horror perspective than mature content.

 

[χKai]

Leisure Suit Larry when I was 4 was cool

 

[Vexicrypt]

My dad bought us Silent Hill and Parasite Eve but didn't allow me to play them until a bit later. However, he would let me watch him play. And I gotta tell you, that nightmare sequence in SH and the rat transformation scene in PE are still living in my head rent free. Good memories though.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

I loved blowing off the heads of grannies in san andreas when I was 9

No matter how spastic the new age restriction laws get, and how wimpy modern cartoons get, kids here are still browsing shorts, reels, tik toks and tic tacs where they spam Fuck every 5 seconds; and read manga with boobs n blood heh

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I played Duke Nukem 3D when i was 8 .
Was scared by the aliens .

I played Resident evil 1 with 12 .
I've overcame my fear towards horror games.

I played Thrillkill with 14 .
I was disturbed and disgusted .

Man what a journey i had from friends and their burned ps1 CDs and alot of free-time .

 

[Deleted member 924886]

I can remember a moment when I played Silent Hill 1 for PlayStation 1, my mother came into my room and I had just shot down some monsters. She asked me, "Where did you get this game?" It was only borrowed from a friend, but of course I didn't tell her that. But still, I got in trouble because it was a game rated 18+. I just kept thinking, did she really have to come in at that exact moment when I was shooting monsters?

 

[zombie100379]

i played what i wanted to play - my parents didn't try to stop me because they knew i could separate fantasy from reality , also watched countless horror films as a child , i viewed it as entertainment and was fascinated by how the effects were done.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, used to play it in those XBOX arcades you could find anywhere bad in 2003, when we finally got a proper PS2, that was the my siblings played too, we also played Twisted Metal and Resident evil

My age then? 8

 

[Lee__Kanker]

By the way the thing were you need an id to buy an 18+ games was never a thing in italy, not that it mattered in the good old days, most games youd just get them off the street from a moroccan anyway

 

[χKai]

They didn't start caring til Night Trap.

 

[Lokgamer]

I was about 7 when a had my first psx and I played and finished several times games like Silent Hill, Bloody Roar, Resident Evil 1-3 and Twisted Metal. A few year later, I got my first ps2 and played games like Silent Hill 2-4, Fatal Frame 1-3, Devil May Cry 1-3, God of War 1 and 2, Manhunt 1-2 and many other games I shouldn't being playing being a kid. Mom and Dad never supervised what I was playing XD