What were your parent's rules on video games?
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?I am the parent, I make the rules.
Play good stuff. Mostly not simple addiction trigger games.
Growing up I had no limit since my parents although caring didn't follow the game development as I did.
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They tried, but I don't think they did a great job.
I was limited by time and duration. I wasn't allowed to start playing games until like 3pm, and wasn't allowed to play after dinner. (If I went to someone else's house, the rule didn't apply. If someone came to my place, video games were also allowed, but my parents didn't like people coming over). I also had to finish all my homework first. I remember just watching the clock on the weekends waiting for it to tick over to 3pm, then dashing up the stairs to the games.
For some reason, I was allowed to watch as my TV as I wanted. I'm old and tv was limited, and we didn't have all the channels.
What ended up happening is I would lie. I would say I had finished my homework when I hadn't to get that sweet, limited video game time. I would say I was watching TV in the basement but I was playing games with the sound down.
This trashed my school habits. I was doing all my homework the morning it was due. I was a smart kid so everything was still getting done well enough for me to get B's, but this wasn't great. When I got to college I had no study habits or learning stamina.
To this day I kind of find tv and other passive watching unsatisfying. I never watch anything on my own. Only with someone else.
I don't know what would have worked better. The clock based limit felt terrible though. Really hated that. Maybe if they had explained "if you put all your stat points in video games now, when skill ups are cheap, you're going to be underpowered later" it would have landed.
RELATABLE, I destroyed my study habits for the same reason, though, I'm much better at studying now.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?I grew up with a gameboy advance sp that was a gift from my grandmother and we got a family Wii when I was about 12. I don’t think my mom knew much about the ratings but we weren’t allowed to play much besides mario kart and Wii sports.
I started playing more when I moved out at 18. -
I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them to let me play monster hunter when I was 13.
They let me.
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We don't buy games in this house, we pirate them.
One day they will figure out why they can't connect the Nintendo Switch to the internet and why they have so many game options.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?wrote last edited by [email protected]My parents were reasonable. They were a bit wary of me wanting M-rated games as a kid, although they'd at least take the content warnings into account. The only game I remember them having a problem with was a Mortal Kombat game, though that was more from my 4-year-old brother wanting them to buy it for him. They were perfectly fine with buying me Halo CE when I was 7. Oh, also, my grandmother bought me Conker's Bad Fur Day because she thought the squirrel on the cover was cute.
It was my sister who was strict about whatever media I'd consume. When we got an Xbox for Christmas, she turned on all the parental controls in the name of "protecting" her little brothers. She thought I was "too young" to play GTA when I was 10, even though she's barely a year older than me. This domineering of hers extended to the TV as well, at least for a day, until my dad wanted to watch King of the Hill and the screen blacked out.
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I am the parent, I make the rules.
Play good stuff. Mostly not simple addiction trigger games.
Growing up I had no limit since my parents although caring didn't follow the game development as I did.
Based.
I'd probably get my children a 3ds or something. Plenty of good quality games on there
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?The only rule was I had to get them myself (unless it was a special occasion) and not to disturb the house while gaming.
Most of my PC games were from the win95 and MS-DOS era. But I do remember getting half-life 1 and eventually 2, and all the crazy mods that came out for those.
I remember playing the leisure suit larry games and not understanding any of the jokes haha.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?Surprisingly there weren't any rules around video games, it was everything else they had a problem with. TV shows, music, movies, Pokemon cards, too much time on the internet... Everything was "satanic", and yet I could game all day and no problems there. Maybe my taste in games was just never seen as an issue to them, or it was too much work to audit the content of them.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?I don't remember my parents having many, if any, rules for games, probably because I was the final child by that point. They didn't really have to worry too much about me getting into games too mature for me ( probably the worst I could remember when I was still little would have been Turok on n64 ), so I was fine either way.
I do remember on weekends, though, my dad specifically trying to get me, someone who doesn't like to eat breakfast in general, to eat before I'd play games. That was around middle school when that would happen.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?Only one hour a day initially. And my mom hated any games with guns, so no games with guns. Creating an absolute bloodbath in Age of Empires was completely okidoki tho. At some point I wanted to buy GTA 3. My mom obviously said no (and fairly so, I was like 12 or something). But my dad, in an absolute chad move, said "oh I know that game, it's fine". I tended to play at the houses of friends who had less strict rules. I remember playing GTA Vice City on the original Xbox some time before I was allowed to buy GTA myself.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?No rules, except that they weren't paying for anything, so I play a bunch of free-to-play games and (maybe) learned the ways of Captain Jack Sparrow
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I mean, my parents didn't even care if I shoplifted as long as I don't get caught. (I don't shoplift, but if I did, my parent would be more worried like "did they see you take it" more than the morality/legality implications.)
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My parents weren't very restrictive. But one time, to get me to stop asking for a new game, my Dad said I couldn't get any new ones until I beat the last game I got.
I think about that a lot still. I think it would have been a good rule, outside of some edge cases like games that were endless or too easy.
But it was off the cuff, he didn't remember saying it. By the time I finished some game and brought it up, I think he said something like "well don't you have other games you never finished?"
I had a very similar situation with my parents but it was involving computers. I wanted a computer quite badly, and for whatever reason my parents thought it was only to play video games. So they bought me a laptop-shaped educational toy with a bunch of inane mini games and said I could beat all of them, they'd buy me a real laptop. I beat them all and they went back on their promise. Crushed. Just say no, folks, don't make your kids jump through hoops for nothing. Unless I guess you want them to get a taste of working adult life early?
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?Not exactly rules on content (though they were in charge of buying me games until I was old enough that it no longer mattered, so they stuck to family friendly games for the most part.)
However they initially refused to buy me another console other than the NES that I was gifted when I was very little. Some years later, my older brother took pity on me and got me a Genesis (they did not appreciate it.) The only other time I was bought a console was my mom got me a Nintendo 64 as a pity gift for a lot of terrible things that happened to me that year.
I remember them saying they didn't want to have to buy another console every year, with new games, etc. In hindsight, they were definitely predicting the future market haha.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?Nothing over PG (and sometimes it even that) and only allowed to play 1 hour a day at most.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?We had no consoles, I saved all my money to buy a Gameboy color and Pokémon crystal.
Which mother then said I had to key my twin use as well
Annoyed as fuck over that. They could have bought their own damnit
Mother looked at the games I bought for the color but I only really played crystal, donkey kong, that sort of thing.
The computer was edutainment games only, but me and twin liked Oregon trail 2 and Amazon trail and the like.
Once the internet arrived they didn't realize I found a place to download like rpg maker games.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?The only thing it could get an m rating for and still be allowed was government approved violence, like if it was a war game or sports fighting.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?Computer games and handheld games were allowed, but no video game consoles ever until we were adults.
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?My mom was really against cursing and of course anything sexual, but the rest was pretty much fair game.
An exception would be Manhunt, but I even got to play MGS3 as a kid (which ended up being my favorite game of all time.)
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I was talking with a coworker about what games my parents allow me to play, and what they let their kids play. My parents were fine with most things bloody things, like Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead and Gears of War, mostly because you were fighting like aliens or zombies. They were fine with military shooters too, and got really interested in the Modern Warfare storylines.
The game that they really had a problem with was GTA, of course, but later, when my little sister started playing it, they got invested in GTA 5's story, so eventually we could just play whatever we really wanted.
How bout you all? Did your parents have any weird or strict rules in games or movies?I had rules until I started getting an allowance and could guy my own games. That was around the time of GameCast.
Rules
- Nothing M rated
- Only 1 new game per year, so choose wisely
- We could rent from blockbuster, but I couldn’t rent the same game more than once, so I better finish that game in 3days, 5 days if they were feeling generous that week.
- I was allowed to borrow games between friends, but since I had like 4 games to trade, they never wanted to let me borrow their games.
