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Post by anayo on Jan 26, 2019 20:00:27 GMT -5
In 1999 I begged my Grandma for 007 Goldeneye for the N64. When I received it and she saw me play it, she was appalled. She said, "This game's all about killing people." I replied, "Yeah, cause if he doesn't the bad guys will kill him. That's what James Bond is about." She said, "I thought you were asking me for Jane's Pond or something."
Thankfully Mom and Dad didn't care so I went on playing it. That's the only one I can think of right now. I might add more if I can think of them. Does anyone else have any others in the meantime?
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 26, 2019 20:35:36 GMT -5
- Wanted to rent Ocarina of Time once, but the back of the box must have said something that made my super religious grandpa say no. Saved up my allowance one summer and bought it with my parents instead one day. At the time they were extremely religious too, but didn't care about Zelda.
- Couldn't play M rated games, but one of my dad's best friends just randomly bought me Perfect Dark when it came out... can't exactly turn down your best friend and my non-blood related uncle right? Hehe.
- Still technically could not play M rated games until I was 18... but I just took my mom to Gamestop to buy Metal Gear Solid and stuff. Yeah I was that kid sometimes, mom wasn't as strict as my dad. Didn't even bother "hiding" them, since you can't see the rating label when they're nicely in the shelves with only the title showing. That said, there was like a random time or two in my life when my dad would stop by the TV and watch or ask what I was playing, so I did try to be careful and play parts in secret or whatever.
I'm sure there's more, it was a losing battle for them. I played everything at numerous friends homes growing up. Doom when I was 5, Resident Evil 2 and Metal Gear Solid at some point in grade school along with Turok and anything else that was popular in the 90's era, etc. Good times. Same deal with movies... it was such a joke sneaking into other movies with friends and watching R rated stuff.
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Post by Ex on Jan 26, 2019 21:21:48 GMT -5
She said, "I thought you were asking me for Jane's Pond or something." So she would have been okay with this then: I'm afraid with this topic I'm going to have to just sit back and read others' tales. It seems a fair amount of you had very censored sheltered overprotected managed childhoods - but my own was not, at all. My parents did not care what I played, nor how much I played, whatsoever. The only thing my dad ever caught me watching and made me turn off, was the Nazi death rape machine scene of Urotsukidôji II: Legend of the Demon Womb.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 26, 2019 21:59:46 GMT -5
I typically self-policed, because I knew I'd be in trouble otherwise. I didn't even want to touch Mortal Kombat, and that mostly carries over to this day. I also remember being worried when a friend gave us Syphon Filter 2, as it was an M-rated game. The sad part, of course, is that I would have been 21 at that point... ...but still, just the way I was at the time. I remember finally buying my first M-rated game in Metal Gear Solid. I also remember getting the stink eye from my Dad when he happened to catch Barret cursing up a storm in Final Fantasy VII. I think the only game I was stopped from buying (dang it!) was Castlevania III, and that was from the subtitle, "Dracula's Curse". Dad wouldn't let us get it for that reason. Of course, I'd already played a good bit of the original Castlevania, so I wasn't going to mention that at the time. I'd also played games that were tangential to D&D, which also didn't find much love in our household, like the Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy games. Ironically, at some point they let go of a lot of that. I remember getting Lord of the Rings, being somewhat concerned they'd be troubled by the magic and stuff. Nope, Dad's response was, "Those are great books. I read them in college." Yay! I get why they did what they did, they wanted to make sure I was thoroughly grounded before I partook in potentially problematic entertainment. And they were much less restrictive than some other parents I knew, so I think, unlike most that might have gotten the "sheltered" tag (although I was indeed that), they didn't go overboard and make me resent it all. I look back and actually feel an appreciation for it, no matter how right or wrong I might have thought individual decisions were at the time. I'm sure I'll overreact if I ever have kids to something as well. I'm going to screw some things up, just like everyone does. Also, Ex , I was thinking about James Pond myself. That mermaid doesn't leave much to the imagination, does it?
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Post by Ex on Jan 26, 2019 22:16:43 GMT -5
That mermaid doesn't leave much to the imagination, does it? It's misleading, the ladies in the game are a bit different...
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Post by Sarge on Jan 26, 2019 22:31:43 GMT -5
How disappointing!
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 26, 2019 23:41:25 GMT -5
It's funny how clueless parents were. Despite trying to put a ban on some stuff, I find it hilarious that I owned Super Ghouls n' Ghosts when I was 5 and even around that time (I can picture the same duplex we lived in shortly around this era), I played through ALL of ActRaiser with my dad reading the text for me... so that one is even more bizarre since he's straight up reading about you being God and stuff. Maybe he thought it was a Christian game? lol And Super Ghouls is a rare one my dad actually played with some friends of his own, so he certainly had to have seen some of the the crazier looking levels. I remember one of my friends thinking it was "demonic" and kind of sacrilegious to play this game. And anyone who's heard the music knows how (awesomely) evil it can sound in some levels. My dad also liked Lemmings around that time too... I remember being shocked with this level, Tricky 14 "Menacing" I think. Apparently other ports cut this level out, but it was in the SNES version.
Loved the music:
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Post by toei on Jan 26, 2019 23:47:52 GMT -5
I feel like we did this thread once or twice before.
I've held that James Pond box before, but I never noticed the hyper-realistic mermaids in the background. What a weird choice, considering how cartoonish James is.
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Post by chibby on Jan 27, 2019 21:49:10 GMT -5
Rather than go down the very long laundry list (which includes things like Pokemon), I thought I'd remark on how, for some reason, my folks were okay with us playing games on the computer, but gaming consoles were a no-no for quite a while (my first ever gaming console was an N64 that Anayo gave to me circa 2004 because he'd collected a spare. I'm still playing that very system now). To this day, I haven't the foggiest idea what made them draw this distinction. That being said these were people who believed, in earnest, that Cabbage Patch Dolls would bring demons in your home, so even if I managed to get the actual answer, I'm sure I would be just as confused
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Post by anayo on Feb 15, 2019 6:19:04 GMT -5
My parents gave Goblins! for MS-DOS the ban hammer because an evil wizard uses a voodoo doll on the king in the opening cut scene. Although honestly now that I rewatch this as an adult it is kind of eff'd up.
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