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 was never much into video games, but my first real interest was for Doom and then for StarCraft. I was also heavy into C&C… I was already an adult and fixed my own rules, deciding on what I wished to spend my time and waste my money.
The first video game I played as a kid was some kind of Pong version, on an Atari console. So, yeah… not much video games for me as a child. With the other kids, we played cards, board games, we played outside too (it’s great), we played chess and checkers, we also played doctor, we read a lot too. And there was no real need to set rules or limits (even less so on what we were allowed to read), not even when we played doctor, mind you—not even to tell us what was then obvious but that seems very much forgotten by too many nowadays, to not be a dick, because acting like one would warrant instant karma feedback from all the others players/participants involved… and that was kinda very quickly formative ;)
My dad really likes arcade games, he would always challenge my brother and I to Galaga, since there was a Galaga cabinet at a restaurant we would frequent. He loves C&C, specifically we would play Tiberian Sun and Generals Zero Hour together.