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Did your parents "censor" your videogames and media when you were a kid?

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When I was a kid I was very jealous of friends whose parents would let them watch adult cartoons like Family Guy or play +18 games like GTA or COD, because my parents didn't let me kek. Until I was 11 or 12 I had to play San Andreas or other violent games hiding. I also remember "smuggling" +16 and +18 games in my Nintendo DS R4 card because my parents didn't check it. They stopped caring at 12 when I got an Xbox 360 and most of the best games were +18
 
Yup took me a lot of convincing to get black ops 1
 
I remember a friend that had it even worse, his parents didn't let him watch WWE
 
Not games but my mother didn't want me to watch sexual movies (American pie type of movies) when i was 9-13 years old. She also forbid me from watching queer eye for the straight guy, that show with the faggots.

Now as an adult i'm proud of her effort to keep me away from degeneracy. Too bad she couldn't stop me from watching porn and all that when i got my first PC at 14-years of age.
 
nah, idk if they even knew how violent some videogames are
 
My mom was freaked out when she saw me playing moral combat, turned the blood off.
 
My mom still complains when she finds out im gaming
 
MasterOfSadness
 
A childhood friend couldn't even play minecraft because "killing animals bad" and "zombies are demons"
 
No, but I always has nintendo consoles so it didnt matter
 
No, I played the Devil May Cry series when I was 7
 
yes they did with media, not much with vidya because i only played "appropriate" ones to begin with, but because of this i never shared what music i liked with my parents because i knew they would prevent me from listening to a lot of it if they found out
 
My parents didn’t want me to look at sex scenes in (non-porn) movies when i was under 15 or so
 
Not really. Started watching porn on my iPod when I was like 11 lmao.
 
no, but they were too poor to even buy videogames when I was 7-8 years old
 
Yes

Cockblocked me from playing Team fortress 2
 
I was playing grand theft auto III and yelled ''I just killed this guy here hahaha'' my grandfather just broke the disk in front of my friends
 
My mom didn't even let me have a console, all I could use was her old pc with no internet that had these dos-games
 
I went to see blade 3 to the cinema with 8 years old. And I watched lots of +18 horror movies around that age. So they didn't cared tbh
 
yes yes yes, what you said was very relatable
 
Yes. I was the one fucking kid who had parents like that while all my friends enjoyed Grand Theft Auto and other mid-2000s hits on their PS2s and PS3s. At least I enjoyed some comfy old computer games that I still enjoy today, but still, kinda fucking blows that everyone else was enjoying some great hits, while my parents thought that the original Xbox and PS2 were for "adults." Remember talking about the NFS games with my friends like 13 years ago, yet only being able to play the DS ports, and was also able to play them on the McDonalds GameCubes and at my neighbors'/friends houses. They lifted my restrictions once I kept being found out playing M-rated games behind their back, so they just stopped caring. The first game I remember playing that was popular at the time was BO1, until my mom made me take it back after she caught me killing fuckers during the Vietnam mission.

Their first mistake was letting me use a PC since practically the day I was born. I started playing pirated and free M-rated games since I was very little, and I first used 4chan when I was 7. None of their asinine restrictions did anything in the first place.

My dad would always let me watch adult shows (though not games), and we would laugh at stuff like Family Guy. He even had some satellite thing connected to his 1980s TV that he had in the master bedroom, and I remember that I either watched Hussein's execution live or I watched a replay of Hussein's execution on some Arabic TV station when I was super little, and my dad was right there.
My mom didn't even let me have a console, all I could use was her old pc with no internet that had these dos-games
I also grew up on DOS/Windows 95 games, that was legitimately the only good thing about my upbringing video games wise.
 
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Yes, no R rated movies or M rated games even when I was in my teens. I wasn't allowed to read or watch Harry Potter either (b/c witchcraft). This ostracized me from my peers.
 
To some extend, but my mother would cave in if I begged persistently enough. Even then the only 18 rated games I played and owned at that stage were the GTA series. I didn’t play any FPS games which I kinda regret since those were what most of my peers played.
 
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My parents didn't giva af. Probably because they don't understand English well and I could blag them.
 
After like 11 years old my parents stopped giving a fuck at all and my dad let me play GTA my mom prolly doesn’t know I play nor does she care. Life was fun Cuz I had friends from school play on Xbox with me until I had to go to highschool and everybody left
 
Nope. But I wish they had done it. Maybe things wouldn't have been as bad as it is right now.
 
Hell no, I grew up watching Adult Swim, playing Halo, and watching anime.



Hell, one of the first films I remember watching was Fritz the cat, one of the worst things that you could expose to a kid lmao
 
TV yes. Games no.
They lectured me to make sure I knew games are games and not real the first mature rated game I ever got.
TV though they would not allow anything too vulgar.
By the time Family Guy existed though, I was already old enough to watch that.
 
They let me play whatever and watched whatever I wanted thankgod ngl
 

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