Have you ever been denied vidya as a child, /v/?
eh once cashier asked id when buying hl2. but i went to another cashier who didn't ask
>>736294825Not much. But I do once remember a incident where I was a supermarket and they were selling a copy of Sonic Adventure DX for the PC. I wanted to buy it, but my mom thought it looked very childish and declined. I'm pretty sure I was like 6 at the time.Honestly, PROBABLY for the best.
>>736294825My mom let me buy GTA 5 on release day when I was 13 :D
>>736294825One time me and my dad were at toys r us and buying manhunt or gta vice city (can’t remember which) and he tried to tell my dad “umm this game has lots of violence and crime and stuff like that I don’t think it’s appropriate for kids” and my dad just said “yeah whatever we know” and we went home. I was maybe five years old.
>this little weasel OH NO THIS SICK FUCK DID A GOOD THING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA KILL ALL CHUDS!!!
why are moralfags so upset by boys seeing boobs or blood
>>736294825I never had that issue, but I remember getting my first Marilyn Manson album in like 95, and the clerk was like "THEY BE SATANIC OH LAWDY LAWD THEY'S NAMED AFTAH DA SERIAL KILLAZ MY STARS!"My mom still bought it for me, though.
>>736294825my mom never cared. games in a brick and mortar store are hardly ever sexual and we're american, so violence good, sex bad. i was already an adult when gta5 came out though, where does the time go.
When I was 16 I wanted to get Persona Q because I was a fledgling SMT fan who started with P3P and just finished Golden. The Gamestop guy wouldn't sell it to me though because I was too young.It ended up working out though, because I managed to find somebody selling the special edition on eBay for $40.
>>736294825Mom was convinced by the cash register drone that Mass Effect 2 was a sex simulator so I had to buy it off an older sibling's friend instead.
i had the opposite experience>be me at 6>playing with a little girl across the street>go in her basement see her dad playing PS1 >hallway before Psycho Mantis>stare in fucking awe at the scenes and fight and start of the wolf section, forgetting the girl even exists>go home, drop to my knees MOM I NEED YOU TO BUY ME THIS GAME RIGHT NOW PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE>go to Toys R Us>moms looking at some endcap a couple aisles over while I'm in the game section>employee comes up "can i help you with something little man?">point at the MGS1 i can't reach>woah there i'm not sure that ones a good idea for you>yeah? well my mom is going to buy it for me so you might as well just get it downi was such a smug piece of shit to that employee cuck when my mom came over and bought the game for me
Lol No. I was allowed to play pretty much any game I wanted. GTAIII and a PS2 for Christmas was legit.
>>736294825I don't believe so. My parents kind of didn't care. My dad was distant and worked a lot, my mom was very permissive (though we were generally decent kids). If we could AFFORD it, then we could get any game we wanted. I was playing M rated games as a 10-12 year old, but I myself was actually not a huge fan of gore. I didn't like Mortal Kombat 4 because of the fatalities, so my parents didn't have to prevent me from playing it. Also, my brother is 5 years older than me, so he was already getting to the age where he was able to play those games.
>>736294825>be 13 y.o me>really want to play Doom 3 on Xbox>early Xbox 360 era, so Eb Games is starting to clearance out og Xbox games>Find Doom 3 for like $5>bring it to the counter>clerk says I can't buy it because I'm not 17>insist with the clerk my mom won't care about it, she's at the other side of the mall, im not gonna bother walking across and back to get her to buy the game for me>The clerk eventually hesitates and sells the game to meI wonder if that guy ever got in trouble for doing that
your mother cucked you and stunted your development if she wouldn't buy you cool games or let you watch certain movies or porn
hate zoomers so much it's unreal
>>736294825All the time. My mother hated the idea of me having any kind of fun, after school was farm chores she didn't want to do despite choosing to buy a farm and a bunch of animals for it, weekends were literal 9-5s where I'd be kicked out of the house to go clear fields "stick picking" she called it. The only reason I got to game at all were the very rare moments of weakness she had, other family members buying me games and the cd burning ring we had at school. Gaining the independence to use my leisure time and actually having leisure time however the fuck I wanted was a pretty heady experience.
>>736294825>be me>in bj's with my parents, couldn't have been older than 5 or 6>see a double pack containing pac n roll and pac pix for the DS>beg my parents for it, remembering the pac n roll trailer from a nintendo power dvd>they say no>leave feeling sadI eventually found a copy of Pac n Roll in FUCKING GAMESTOP about a year or two later, it was fine.
>>736295608you got permission from your mom to watch porn? when i was a kid it was about sneaking the hidden porn stash when your parents left you alone at home.
>>736294825Similar thing happened to me. I remember I was at Toys R Us with my dad and we were going to get Dead Rising 2 on the 360 for my birthday. The old lady unlocking the glass case turned to my dad and said something like "You know this is an Adult game, right?". My dad said "Yeah, it's for me". So weird
>>736295796That sucks. My mom would straight up buy me weapons and show me gore stuff.
>>736295541I have a Doom 3 related post myself in that my dad rented it for me when I was like 7, like he just brought it home and told me about Doom being a cool older game. I needed the cheat codes to even stand a chance at playing it but I ended up getting heavily into classic Doom wads on PC by the time I was barely 10 because of it. Dads are cool.
>>736295925You watched Kill Bill young too, huh?
>>736294825> I was 12> GTA 5Oh, God....
>>736294825My uncle denied me a naruto volume once because it says 15+ or whatever in the book and I was only 12. Faggot ass nerd, his son ended up being a bigger autist with less social skill than me, karma won for once.
>>736295184probably? have you seen the state of adult sonic fans? your mom saved your life
>>736295868my mom knew but didn't really care except tease me about the computer having big boobs and stuff in the browser history
>>736295940I don't like Doom 3 as much as I used to but its still absolutely one of my guilty pleasures. Playing it that night after getting home from the mall was a kino gaming experience. I remember catching up with my mom at the mall after buying it and she was just like that's nice anon.I remember when I'd play it I'd always close the door to the playroom. I thought the gore and demonic shit would have made my parents flip out
>>736295409The clerk saw this cover and thought it was too "old" for you? lol
>>736294825Based Clerk actively protecting the youth from brainrot.
>>736295428cool story, but how did your relationship with the little girl evolve later on?
>>736294825No, but i wish i did because my mom bought me Silent Hill 1 on PS when i was 9. Terrible mistake
>>736294825lol little faggot got pwned
I never tried to buy anything before I was old enough. Any games or movies that I was too young for, my parents would either watch over my shoulder or play it themselves for a bit first. I was reading shit like Flowers in the Attic when I was 9 though, so they never said no to anything anyway.Dad did tell me off once when I was killing marines for no reason in Halo:CE though. >>736296090I thought I was smart printing porn out to hide in my room and clearing the browser history. Then one day my dad told me the printer has memory as well and laughed at me. Think that's the first time I experienced panic sweats.
>>736296251we played as little kids but she got ugly and weird around middle school desu. her dad that was playing MGS1 still lives across the street from my dad 30 years later and we shoot the shit sometimes when i visit
>>736296152Not that anon, but I currently work with a guy who used to work at gamestop. I told him that when I was 17 he denied me from buying MGSV because I didn't have an ID and he said they can actually be fired for selling an M rated game to someone without IDing them and his boss was probably somewhere within earshot that day.
At Gamestop once, many years ago when they still sold PS2 games, I saw a kid with his mom go up to the register to buy Black. His mom asked the cashier if you killed people in it, and he said yes, then the mom turned to the kid and went "You told me it was aliens!" and she dragged him out without buying it. Good try, kid.
>>736294825>gta 5 is 13 years old what the FUCK
>>736296271Thats crazy lol. I shat my pants playing resident evil 3 when I was 8. That shit really effected me.
>>736295827Damn they wouldn't even get you games after you gave them BJs? What a lopsided transaction, you need to get the law involved.
>>736294825>lost a sale on purpose to 'own' a literal kidWhy are americans so petty?
>>736294825My mom bought it at 12 too, this time she couldn't have known about the drugs and sexual content because I bought it online :)she probably would have bought it anyway because I asked
>>736294825> denied vidya as a childthis is unironically based and was a great filter/ skill check. Nowadays you have literal hordes of black/brownoids with retarded parents that are either too stupid or can't speak a lick of english or both buying their future scientist kids GTA and the kids are unironically turning into absolute degenerates because of it.
Once, yes>Gamestop circa 2003>Want to buy RE1 for PSX>Clerk tells me I'm too young (13)>Put game on shelf>walk to my mom standing right outside the store>hand her money>she walks in and buys itThat was it
One time I was with my dad at GAME and embarrassed about asking the employee about a game, so my dad started asking in my place and I kept pulling on him so he'd stop bc I was so embarrassed, so my dad slapped me hard and I started crying and the poor employee just looked away awkwardly
>>736296791It's a fireable offense.
nah, but a grown man sold me a mortal kombat game when I was 12 without an adult, and that made me feel really cool at the time.
>>736296812Based, I'd have smacked you harder.
>>736294825I pirated my own games since i was 13. Never had to ask shitnothing to anybody
>>736296836Every Gamestop I've ever been in had 2 employees present at MOST, who's gonna tell on him?
>>736294825>I was 12>GTA 5
>all these fucking zoomers shitting up the boardI hate you fucks like you wouldn't believe
>>736295343>>736295368>>736295409>>736296498
>>736296802it's cute picturing you guys doing this all sneaky-like when she could've told the employee to fuck off and that she's buying the game for you, kek
>>736294825My dad was fanatical about blocking me from any media where a woman had any role beyond being silently in the background as a prop. I was relatively on the smaller side so I couldn’t really get M rated games from GameStop without getting stopped, so I had to use him as a proxy to get a few games. Halo 2, Legacy of Kane, no problem. I remember trying to get Dead or Alive 4 and he started shit talking me in public, much to the obvious discomfort of the partially obese GameStop worker.
>>736296812Your dad is an asshole.slap him when he is old and on a wheelchair.
>>736296694My parents were usually abusive psychos, but for some reason one weekend when my sisters were away they let me rent Black and ignored the chores I had to do. Thinking about it now, it was probably a distraction so they could fuck.
>>736296889>>736296980The dichotomy of /v/
>>736295237>My mom let me buy GTA 5 on release day when I was 13 :DAnd now you spend your time on 4chan :D
>>736296980We already punched each other as adults a year or two ago and I didn't feel too good about it so idk I don't think I will, but yeah him being completely defenseless would be closer to the reverse situation.
during the pandemic i stole a pokemon omega ruby for the 3ds from gamestop even though i have never owned a dsit was easy because of the facemask bullshiti still have it
>>736294825this kid has been waiting for GTA6 for most of his life
When Drakengard 3 came out I asked my dad to bring me to FUCKING gamestop and as we were waiting to check out he took the case out of my hand and looked at Zero being sexy on the cover and said "Heh you're gonna have to let me play this one, bud. heheh"
>>736296920Management when an adult calls to complain. Also cameras are present in the store.
>>736297089fuck that kid i've been waiting for my team to win a super bowl for 34 years and you don't see me crying about it
>>736294825Whenever I asked for games, my parents just told me to pirate them on the computer, does that count?
>>736297125based dad
>>736294825get owned lil nigga lmaoooo
>>736296152>M ratingwhat in the worldthe pantyshots in that game must be that good eh
>>736295168This
>>736297132>when an adult calls to complainComplain about what? That a cashier warned them that a game contained sex and drugs before they bought it for a child?>camerasYou think the managers were watching back 10 hours of 240p footage with no audio every day to check for misconduct? They aren't looking at it unless there's a complaint, and see answer A for why that won't happen
>>736294825I used to buy cds from supermarket racks as a kid, but nobody cared about the ratings.
>>736297312Smt games are literally just rated M for Mara
>>736294825>when i was 12>GTA 5 launched 13 years ago on PS3 and Xbox 360FUCK ME
>>736294825My parents told me I was too old to watch mlp
I had a Hollywood Video with an attached Game Crazy within walking distance of my house as a kid, i think i was between 8 and 10 or something when i started walking or biking there by myself it's probably because i had came there for years and my parents always bought or rented me rated M games but for as long as i went to those stores neither of them ever hassled me about buying or renting any game i wanted. absolutely comfy fucking times before my city was unrecognizable
>>736297509They were right.
>>736297509If you were young enough for your parents to stop you from doing something, then you probably dodged a bullet there. That wasn't really the best fandom for a child to get into.
>>736297509based parents. you're a fag for ever wanting to watch it at any point past the age of toddlerhood however.
>>736294825not really, my parents were very hands off, my dad's idea of uninstalling my games was to delete the shortcut on the desktop
>>736297448the dick chariot demon, right? kinda based they didn't change his design for persona given it has a seemingly wider appeal compared to smt
>>736294825I remember that in my early teens I was allowed to play halo but not call of dutyreally weird, but I didn’t care that much
>>736294825Some poofter tried to deny me a Slipknot CD when I was 11 and his entire reasoning was "it's Slipknot". There was no parental advisory sticker on the case so he had to sell it to me. Put the CD in the bag, wagie.
>>736294825The retard at gamestop tried to tell my mom that Oblivion had nude mods when she asked about it, thankfully another employee asked him why he was even bringing it up since it was a 360 copy and called him a moron
This almost happened when i had to drag my dad along to buy Kingpin in 1999 but it didnt take a whole lot of explaining that shit was da bomb.>"the controversy led various retailers to not stock the game, including Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us. Xatrix team member Greg Goodrich would claim later that "If it wasn't for Electronics Boutique, the game might have never seen the light of day in North America."I remember it being a bit controversial in the uk but had no idea it was in the us. Probably the most disturbing thing in it was the shrieks the hoodlums make when you light them up with the flamethrower.
Honestly my old GAME store was strangely nice while conversely, I was a piece of shit.>sold them a PS2 that couldnt read blue discs anymore>also traded in multiple controllers with issues that would not be apparent from the less than 1 minute test the staff would do>bought extra copies of multi disc games, swapped the discs around to make one good set and refunded that fucked set>blatant return policy abuse to "rent" new games before actually buying one to keep
My mom bought me AC Brotherhood knowing it was rated M and basically told the clerk she didn't give a fuck when he piped up about it.
>>736298007>KingpinMy grandad had that. One of many he'd let me play on the condition I didn't tell my grandma he let me play it.
>>736294825>visit my friends house in grade school, maybe 8yrs old>he has vice city on his ps2>holy shit this is awesome we can just do whatever we want>go home and beg my dad for it>he says no way its got drugs and sex and shit>gets me a ps2 at least just refuses any gta>parents get divorced, split custody>mom gets me an xbox and first game is vice city>dad's pissed, mom dgaf "He knows its just a game get off my back"Hell yeah that divorce sucked ass and fucked up my childhood but it let my mom's layed back attitude shine through for me at least
yeah and it was one of the most humiliating things in my life.Some Rainbow Six game, never touched a RS game ever again.It`s crazy what the youngsters can buy digital nowadays, all the anxiety and humiliation are gone...must feel great
>>736298284tell the story you cunt
>>736296086The weird autistic Sonic fans are the ones that grew up with the Genesis games, anon would’ve been fine
>>736294825No I even had them buy me FFX-2
>>736298447starting this game with my mom, dad, and grandparents in the room is still one of the most embarrassing moments of my life
>>736296937Based thougher, doe
>>736294825based
>>736295318I have recently come to the ineluctable conclusion that moralfags are simply inhuman. I believe that there is some sort of spirit/monadic essence that defines consciousness (whether this essence is material or immaterial); moralfags seem to have been created without it. They are wholly incapable of rational thought or empathy - I wish them grave and unending ill.
>>736295318Guilt for enjoying things still exists in people that are religious but they hate themselves so they get mad when other people enjoy things too
>>736297754Yep.
>I was 12>GTA 5
>>736298447>Yes, I would like to buy the game with the 3 sexy girls on the cover.Your parents were almost certainly incredibly relieved.
>GTA5 came out 13 years ago
I had the opposite happen. My mom took me and my cousin to GameStop to buy him a game for his birthday, and he picked out Resident Evil 4. Me, being a little shit, wanted it as well. My mom picked up a used copy of Resident Evil Zero and brough both to the counter. The guy at the counter convinced my mom to get me RE4 as well because Zero sucked, according to him.
>>736294825Can someone explain to me the appeal of GTA past IV? The open world thing is old hat and there are tons of shooters that do everything else better. Is it literally just dick jokes on the radio that keep coming back to this series?
>>736294825Yeah I was denied Halo 3 at a Gamespot when I was 16 and I already had the receipt for it. I hope that faggot gets killed by niggers.
>>736298942what a legend
>>736294825I bought hitman silent assassin for pc at a game store when I was 12. the guy at the counter said it's an awesome game.
>>736298957GTAO is the only reason hasn't been in the same slump as Duke Nukem for the last 13 years
>>736294825No, I had based parents in that regard so one of my first games was Mortal Kombat 4.
zoomie seethin' bubblin' fumin'
>>736294825nope. remember having re1 when I was about 5-6 and dad got me gta san andreas on release date when I was 9.
>>736296628ratings agencies also send auditors to test stores randomly and see if the ratings are enforced. and they will get the guy fired if he slips.
>>736295318power trip same thing with discord/reddit mods banning people for the smallest bullshit.
>Probably around 12 years old>With my mom trying to pick up an innocent fighting game with some mild violence in it with money from I won from a math contest at school>At checkout the Toys R Us cashier points out the game is rated T>Mom goes "oh no, you can't buy that.">I point out that I have several M rated games such as Resident Evil>She short circus as woman often do logic and reason are no longer factors >End up with some licensed shovelware dogshit insteadI'm still mad decades years later. Shit like this is why you end up in a retirement home.
>>736294825The opposite of this happened to me.>be in Walmart>want to buy Rainbow Six Lockdown for Xbox>employee who looks like some big authority monster says to my dad it's an M rated game>dad says "Yeah it's for me">could see the look of seething rage on her face knowing damn well it wasn't actually for him and he was going to let me play it
>>736298957what i dont really get is the production cost, making a dude drive a car and shoot around with some cutscenes in-between really excuse 3 billions in cost? feels like a giant laundry scheme but the big hype makes people believe its justifiable.
>>73629882590% of the population of earth think its weird to find cartoons attractive
My mom wouldn't let me buy The Sims 2 because the ESRB label said Sexual Themes
>>736299359>>736295897Are the employees trained to tell parents it's an M-rated game if they have kids with them? So they don't get sued or what?
>>736294825A 12 year old should not play GTA. He was happy to maintain the status quo. A dick but the action was justified.
>>736298697Without morale you end up like some nigger hood in NY. It's really important and every white man has it in him.
>>736299353Hey that's the famous game that started "furries"
>>736299462yes, it's a requirement in most stores
>>736299437Tell that to disney pixar furfags
Nah. I still remember my dad looking at the back cover of Fallout 2, shrugging, and buying it for me anyway despite the mention of pimping out your wife. I think I just grew up alongside games as they became more realistic and adult oriented, like I was 14 when GTA III released, so I never had to deal with the Jack Thompson scare (there are /v/irgins posting rn who don't even know who or what this is, fuuuckkk)
>>736299502Furfaggots were unfortunately around before that
Went to Walmart to get the GTA xbox collection and Manhunt, Walmart worker started telling my dad (unprompted)!all about Manhunt and why nobody should be buying it for their kid. Dad made me put it back, but the worker didn’t say a single thing about GTA so I got that at least. I wanted to argue how stupid the logic was but that would involve detailing what was in GTA and the result would be me getting no games so I stayed quiet. idr how old I was but in my teens at this point so I was more pissed with my dad not respecting me than I was with the walmart employee.Couple years later, same Walmart, I was 16 so I could drive myself there but not old enough to buy Dead Rising so I asked a random guy in electronics if he’d get it for me if I gave him the cash and then meet me outside and he did; cool guy.
>be happy 6 year old me>playing GTA 3, running around driving a car>brother browbeats me over the fact it's an M-rated game>never touch a GTA game again until I'm 14>mfw playing the shit out of Mortal Kombat 4, Battle Realms, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Half-life 1 and 2, Team Fortress, Ricochet, Company of Heroes, Metal Gear Solid 2, Zone of Enders, Bioshock, Crysis, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Assassin's Creed, and a gorillion other M-rated games growing up
>>736299782no posting mai waifu
>>736299502really nigga
>Parents let me play Twisted Metal and Destroy All Humans!>Told I couldn't play Fable (they never explained why)
>>736299795Mitsuba is a fat pig, not you're waifu.
>>736299813Never played Fable 1, but Fable 2 let's you have sex, do drugs, have kids etc
>friend isn't allowed to play zelda because it has magic>i'm not allowed to play mortal kombat 'cuz of blood>he plays zelda at my place and i play mortal kombat at hissnes was good times
>gta? i dont get it, sure, why not.
my parents didn't care what games i played but i remember my uncle burning me copies of Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP, and The Eminem Show but wrote Linkin Park on the discs so my mom didn't know
>>7362988152013 was 19 years ago bro
>>736297059You and me both <3Don't do GTA kids
>>736298942You stupid little niglets. Just share the fucking disk?
>countless pure psychopaths in this thread>"i played tons of m-rated games as a kid and it didn't affect me on bit!"
A wagie refused to sell me Doom: Collector's Edition back in 2001. What a tragedy.
>>736299830Fat girls are stellar tho
>>736300283I was a "psychopath" since as far back as I can remember it sure as fuck wasn't GTA that fucked me up lmao
I remember when Game Crazy was shutting down, the fat dude working the register let me have a Diamond and Pearl pokedex guide book for free after it wouldn't ring up correctly lol. My dad also went there a few days later and bought a bunch of PS2 and PS3 games for dirt cheap.
>>736294825I remember going to my local video store with my friend and renting Night Shift Nurses back in in 2002 when we were 13 and the employee who was like some college age women looked at it and was like "this looks cool" and let us rent it.
>>736294825my grandma bought me Goldeneye and my mom made her take it back because it was rated T.
>>736300371Literal slampiglet.
>>736300718This is lust provoking please stop
I tried to get my mom to buy me Disgaea 1 when it came out, but because there was a big-booba demon on the cover she refused. I had to show her the gameplay on Youtube before she agreed, and then she watched me play for an hour before she either got bored or decided it was harmless enough.Little did she realize how Etna would ruin my taste in women forever. I can't believe that was 23 years ago.
>>736300623Rated T for Tranny
>>736300269He lived an hour away from me at the time, sharing like that wasn't really practical.
>>736294825not really but I didn't let my little brother play Mafia 2 because of that stabbing scene
>>736300831>boobs bad>flat little demon girl in a bra and miniskirt good!Your mom is literally Laharl, anon.
Reminder selling PEGI 18 rated games to a minor is criminally comparable to selling tobacco or alcohol.
>>736294825My parents were reasonably lax about age ratings, they decided I was a sensible kid and they let me play games from the next bracket up a few years early. I remember I was allowed to play 15+ games from at least around 12 years old (which being in Bongland meant quite a few games that are rated Mature in the US, at the time vidya age ratings were done by the same body as films and they were surprisingly lenient - the first Mass Effect was rated 12 for example). They were fairly strict with 18+ games however, I wasn't allowed any of those until I think I was most of the way to my 17th birthday.I think they were right to handle it how they did, those age ratings do exist for a reason and seeing all those kids being given shit like GTA V when they're ten years old developing into retarded degenerate wrecks has only reinforced that opinion. In the unlikely event that I ever have children of my own I'm going to play it the same way.
>>736300964Etna is pure sex. Same that "Dis gay, yeah?" sucks.
>>736301107In gay America lmao
>>736301181We don't have BEGI for a PEGI in the USA, and there's no laws regarding MPAA or ESRB ratings, nor a requirement to have them, communist.
>>736300964She was right, big boobs are bad.
I tried to rent RE3 at Blockbuster when my grandma took me and the guy behind the counter spent 10 minutes telling her about all the content ratings and how harmful it was to children. He was an old guy. I just went back a few days later with my mom and rented it when he wasn't working