/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10517806
When I was 11 and my brother was 13, my mother saw us playing 007 goldeneye and took it away from us because it was so violent. She bought me the at the time brand new Conkers Bad Fur Day to make up for it, and then promptly ignored us again and somehow never noticed how much worse it was. It had the cute squirrel and that was enough for her lol

>>10517821

The "bad" games I had, i just bought myself and didnt play infront of my mom. Those included Metal Gear Solid, Conker BFD, Duke Nukem 64 and a copy of San Andreas i bought off a friend. My mom didn't like me and my dad playing Interstate 76 and I remember one time she said something when i was playing Clayfighter on N64 and Boogerman says "you suck" which she heard(which is ironic cause she swears like a sailor)

>>10517806
>There was no problem with me watching Robocop, but anything with tiddies was out.
So you never saw Robocop then? Because that had a mixed-sex locker room scene with tits.

>>10519212
we didn't notice.

>>10519243
Shame, it's one of my favorite scene-setting shots in the movie, along with Lewis getting made fun of for taking so long to subdue her suspect in the PD. The two work to show the Detroit PD really does not give a shit what their officers are, as long as they can do the job. Which helps explain how everyone on the force adapts to having Robocop around so quickly.

>>10519243
I noticed

>>10517806
no. but i was already 17 when i could afford to buy "mature" PSX games on my own.

>>10517806
Exact opposite. I watched nudity scenes with my parents but no violence. They said because nudity is a positive natural part of humanity, while violence is a negative .

>>10517806
I live in the land of piracy, bootlegs and burned discs were the norm so nobody gave a shit

>>10517806
>be playing gta2
>mom comes into room
>step out of car and walk around without shooting people until she leaves the room

>>10517806
Not really but mum refused to get me San Andreas when it came out despite Vice City being allowed for some reason. She's not even the slightest racist either.

Not morality related but I was obsessed with vidya as a kid and my parents (correctly) recognized it would stunt my physical and social development. I was well behaved and got good grades so they mostly obliged me but my punishments were ALWAYS having my games taken away from me. I'd come home from school and my dad would have hidden the controllers.

However, my dad hated RPGs...I remember renting Final Fantasy II and blabbing about how it was an RPG (very excited about this since I had never played one before). Well dad gets really pissed about this for some reason and bans the game from the house. Mom told me later it was because dad had seen some news story about how DnD or RPGs had caused some kids to kill themselves (or something) or more likely, my athletic dad wasn't jazzed about his only son becoming an RPG-playing poindexter lol. I spent a year or two dreaming about playing RPGs daily lol. Then I just realized my dad couldn't tell Final Fantasy from Super Mario Kart so I asked for Secret of Mana for my birthday.
Also remember playing Final Fight 3 with my dad him excitedly asking if you could knock the tops off the female enemies lol he rules.

>>10517806
My father saw me playing legend of Zelda link to the past on SNES and he took it away and forbid me from playing it because he said it contained magic and witchcraft.

>>10517806
>>10520878
When I was 7 years old and Vice City had just came out, I visited my uncle's house and he had the game and thought it would be funny to make me play it. He was telling me to go in this yellow marker which was actually the door to the strip club, at which point my grandma (his mum) went crazy and made him turn it off. She told my mum who then phoned my uncle and proceeded to scold him about having let me play such an adult game.

About 3 years after that, I was at a friend's house and he had San Andreas, and we played it for hours and I thought "this is the best game ever, I NEED to get it". I went back home and very meekly asked my mum if she'd buy me the game, thinking she'd yell at me and say no, but for some reason she was totally fine with it and bought it for me like that weekend. Don't really know what changed between the ages of 7 and 10 to suddenly make it ok for me to play GTA, but I wasn't complaining.

>>10517806
Not too much. My mother had a "rule" where their couldn't be corpses. If the bodies faded away or disappeared (Neversoft Spider-Man is a good example) that was fine, but if dead bodies stayed around that was a no-no.

>>10518004
Remember when "sucks" was a swear and Simpsons was edgy for saying it?

>>10517806
As far as I can remember, no. My older brother and I were good kids (well, my bro was more rebellious, but AFAIK he never did anything truly bad) and generally trusted us, so they let us express ourselves and didn't much care what we played, though they did wish we played less video games and studied more in general. I wanna say GTA3, when my brother bought it, may have raised an eyebrow, but ultimately they knew we weren't going to go out and act that shit out. And once I was like 10 or 11, they didn't make any effort to hide nudity or sexuality in movies and such from me.

>>10517806
Got Killer Instinct for my birthday in 1995. I was 11. The fat neighbor kid comes over, see what I received and talks about Orchid's finisher where she flashes her boobs within earshot of my parents. As soon as he left, my parents confiscated the game and I had to spend a couple days convincing them that this move wasn't in the game (lying I know, but how could they tell?).

My dad saw my cousins becoming addicts to games in the early 80s and didnt want me getting into them. Except, he pretty much instantly stopped caring about that rule because he got SUPER hardcore into flight sims in a way my ass could only dream about becoming addicted to a game. He was constantly buying new PC hardware and joysticks and those pack-in software with sticks and graphics cards were some of my first games I got to play outside of an arcade or my LCD handhelds. And many of those games later ended up being shooters or things like MechWarrior.

>>10521056
yes
even "crap" caused some triggering back then

>>10519285
Your parents are probably Adamians lol

>>10517806
It seems like parents were always in one of three categories back then re: games
>a. Didn’t care at all
>b. Religious objectors
>c. Helicopters worried games will rot kids’ brains
Mine were solidly in category c. My mom only let us play games on the weekends and only for an hour at a time. For some weird reason, none of those rules ever applied to PC games, though. Weird but good times.

>>10517806
Sort of. My sister was a feminist-lite in her late teen years and became a real bitch about hassling my parents when I played a video game that had sexy girls on the cover.

Do any Spaniards here remember "el chico de la katana"? Also the thing with drugs and metal gear solid kek

>>10517806
No I am European, we do not have a moral panic. People here are rational and secular.

>>10523185
>I am European
>We do not have a moral panic
>People here are rational

LOL

>>10519285
>conservacucks
>violence yes, nudity no

>shitlibs
>violence no, nudity yes
Why are you all like this?

>>10523185
>>10523198
In Europe, we're not afraid of nipples either.

>>10523185
>europeans are rational and secular
Denmark recently brought back blasphemy laws alhamdulillah

>>10520953
Incredibly Based and RedPilled

>>10520953
It literally does

>>10517806
13 yr old me was able to buy a copy of MK2 for the snes without issues (I really don't know if the PAL box mentioned any age restriction or not). Store didn't check anything.
Also parents didn't care what I played.

>>10517806
Mom let me play GTA so long as I didn't kill anyone.

>>10525180
For every wanted star I got, I had to wash a neighbour’s car

>>10519278
I noticed the dick on your girlfriend Scott. It didn't raise any eyebrows but my lunch came back up

My mother didn't want me to play GTA2 because of the 18+ rating until she saw the actual gameplay and graphics.
>That's it? Well have fun then anon.

>>10517806
My dad confiscated me Crash Bandicoot when I said to him that it was that game that inspired me to give 20 cents to a lady in the pool while saying "Shake it baby"

>>10517806
Did not have this problem because I only ever played colorful platformers for the most part

>>10525180
>"but moooom i paid the hooker i swear!"

>>10517821
Boobs joke not funny tho

I got in trouble for playing doom on a shareware disk because "it's a bad game where you get points for killing people"

they put a bios password on the family computer