Parents and banned video-game related stories?

[SNKnicotine]

I remember when i was 7 I got a PSX with Ridge Racer, Resident Evil, and Destruction Derby. I played all of the games unsupervised, My mom walked in on me Playing Resident Evil with my Older sister [the part where the crows are eating Forest] and went off the walls because of the graphic cutscenes and the gore ridden rooms with corpses be revived and killed in some of the most insane manners.My mom took the game and hid it until I got to 5th grade (love my mom!!)

[fastbilly1]

My only real rule was no games on Sunday without permission or being sick. Now my parents would not buy games they did not agree with - like Double Dragon. But we were free to play them at others houses.

[Damm64]

I got home, and I remember my Mom just seeming annoyed that I got Mortal Kombat, but I got to keep it and everything.

I remember when i was 7 I got a PSX with Ridge Racer, Resident Evil, and Destruction Derby. I played all of the games unsupervised, My mom walked in on me Playing Resident Evil with my Older sister [the part where the crows are eating Forest] and went off the walls because of the graphic cutscenes and the gore ridden rooms with corpses be revived and killed in some of the most insane manners.My mom took the game and hid it until I got to 5th grade (love my mom!!)

Is just me or most mothers don't like videogames?

My mom used to say "You're violent because of that killing game you play" (whatever moment i have a disussion with her... im my early teenage years). Now she seems more okay with videogames but once in a while she says "You're not a bit older for games?"

[RyaNtheSlayA]

My mom thought violent video games would turn my crazy.

My dad was more reasonable than that.

Interesting fact. My first M rated game I bought myself was Halo 2. Blockbuster (lol) had a used copy pretty cheap just a few months after the game came out. I had played the game at my best friends house a ton. 4 player multiplayer was awesome. I convinced my dad to let me buy it. My mother was not happy, but she never took it away or stopped me from playing it. She just never took gaming as a serious media. She loved Pac-Man and Galaga back when, but to her, that's all games could ever be. (Edit: She gave me the whole "aren't you a bit old" bit right up until her death as well. Apparently 14 years old is too old to have video games as a hobby.)

That certainly wasn't the first M rated game I experienced though. I had Dino Crisis and Doom on my shelf long before that. Probably as early as 6 or 7 years old. I don't think I really had any others besides those and Halo 2 until I aquired Call of Duty 2, Oblivion, and Dead Rising around the launch of the 360. I probably had a few but I certainly don't remember them. My earliest memory of an M game is probably Doom or Metal Gear Solid (I had a demo disc with the first level on it IIRC).

But no, I never had any real banned games or games taken away, or anything like that.

[ExedExes]

I don't know if this really fits the thread, but one of the major reasons I didn't get an NES till Christmas of 1989 had something to do with the 71 Atari 2600 and 7 Atari 7800 games (which I still have to this day) and the fact that my folks felt that not being able to play all those games and to rebuild a new library would be a waste of money. I had to push and fight and convince just enough to finally get one.

[J T]

This is kind of an embarrassing story, but once when I was little and my mom had taken me to the grocery store, I spied a copy of Mr. Do! in the front of the store. I asked my mom if I could have a quarter to play it and she said "no". I then tried pleading and she said "no". I tried begging and she said "no". I tried incessant obnoxious whining and she said "no". I eventually threw a full fledged hissy fit (I was not typically this kind of child) and I said that I was going to hold my breath until she gave me a quarter to play Mr. Do! I plopped down in the middle of the grocery store floor on my knees. I held my breath and I built up pressure in my head so my face would turn bright red and veiny. In my little kid mind I was thinking that I was throwing down the gauntlet. She had to choose whether she loved me or her quarter more. She chose the quarter. Mom didn't give a fuck and I got dizzy and pretty much passed out. I never got a quarter and was mad as hell. At the time I hated her because in my mind she would rather watch me die from lack of oxygen than give me what I wanted, which was only 25 cents. As an adult, I obviously understand her motivations differently and know that you can't just give into your kids every time they freak out and act like brats, but I really resented my mother for the longest time because of that. And that's the story of how I almost died from not being able to play Mr. Do!

[Luke]

gauntlet.

Ohhhh! Thank you thank you for reminding me to play all sorts of Gauntlet games.

Are any of them beatable?

[Retrodude]

The arcade game isn't because the levels are randomly generated and the game only ends when you die or it generates an unwinnable level. The NES game is because it's only 100 levels.

[fastbilly1]

Ohhhh! Thank you thank you for reminding me to play all sorts of Gauntlet games.

Are any of them beatable?

I highly recommend getting some buddies and giving Legends on the Dreamcast or Dark Legacy on the Xbox a good couple of nights. Youll need beer though.

[Luke]

Ohhhh! Thank you thank you for reminding me to play all sorts of Gauntlet games.

Are any of them beatable?

I highly recommend getting some buddies and giving Legends on the Dreamcast or Dark Legacy on the Xbox a good couple of nights. Youll need beer though.

Dark Legacy is in stock *wooooooosh!*