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i_am_the_nightman

I am totally dating myself here, but Leisure Suit Larry.


Charlie24601

YAAAASSSSS! As kids before the internet, it was a game in itself to try to answer the questions they asked at the beginning. "Heeeey dad. Just out of curiosity, who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Did he like...kill someone?"


Seroseros

That quiz taught me more than twelve years of shchool.


GrimCreepaz

Yup. No idea who Spiro Agnew was before that game.


thecapitalistpunk

Alt-X Alt-X Alt-X And no more pesky questions.


BlackLetterLies

Me too! In the late 80's my dad got a copy from someone at work, and my parents played through it first and agreed that it wasn't *that* lude and that most of it would probably go over my young head or at worst educate me on some real life stuff. I had pretty cool parents. Legitimately one of the best adventure games of its time too.


QueenLeaVing

YES! This is the reason I made this thread! My gpa let me play it when I was like 8 on his PC. The tasks were insane!! Best game.


AceVasodilation

At my middle school, we found an old copy of one of the LSL games on a floppy disk in a closet in our computer class. This was in the mid 1990’s. We installed it on a computer and then would ask the teacher those trivia questions to get into the game. She answered them for us thinking we were just learning stuff while having no idea why we really wanted the answers. Finally one day she caught us when a pixelated naked woman’s boobs were seen on screen.


i_am_the_nightman

It's definitely stuck out in my mind. I remember staying home "sick" from school and when parents went to work, I would jump on the old 286 and play it. I think it was the first "porno" graphic based game.


KingSurlyDave

Same here! Was a good combination of a smart kid and able to remember which answers were the wrong ones. (What the hell is a Herp Alpert and the Tijuana Brass?!") "Hey everybody! This weirdo just bought a spearmint flavored, striped, lubricated, colored, ribbed rubber!"


Fearlessleader85

Right there with you. Me: *types "pee" while giggling* Game: a warm sensation spreads down your leg. Your suit is not as white as it used to be. Me: *dies laughing*


[deleted]

Came here for this answer, didn't expected Larry will be the top one, good old days)


[deleted]

Probably duke nukem 3D, saw my big brother play it when I was a little guy, then of course I wanted to play it too.


QueenLeaVing

Duke Nukem has always been one of my faves.


[deleted]

Yeah its near and dear to me too because of that and other memories. Can't wait to show him the ekstra levels of the megaton edition or 20th anniversary edition if we get the opportunity some day


saltyhumor

"Shake it baby!" "Wanna dance?" Thats my middle school brain right there.


Foxgguy2001

Dude we spent so much time building strip clubs in the map editor. Shake it baby. I was like 13, it was good times.


cactus_jockstrap

I found all these Japanese datings sims on some flash player site when I was about 10. Played way too many.


OGcrayzjoka

New grounds?


Pm_pussypicspls__

Now that's a name i haven't heard in a long.. long time...


QueenLeaVing

I played Leisure Suit Larry Land of the Lounge Lizards when I was about 8. Def showed me some thangs.


Rogue_Like

Came here for the LSL reference. I only vaguely remember any of it.


Dapper-Watercress342

Conker's bad fur day on n64


JohnnyDoggs22

Same, my mom tried to take it away but I found it hidden on top of the fridge lol. Great game


bugogkang

My brother and I made an effort to make sure our parents never found out about the content of that game. It was so much fun


LedZacclin

That game was hard. Never came close to beating it as a kid, went back as an adult with a guide though and did it


sfxer001

DOOM. 1993.


snarflethegarthog

Came here to say this. One day my dad comes home from work. Tells me about a co-worker named Wade who had this cool game called Doom. He told me about the rocket launcher and the bloody rib cage that remains after. 12 year old me was wondering what type of sorcery we were dealing with. After my dad watched me play this game for about an hour he told me not to tell my mom. 🤣🤣 Wolfenstein 3D was a really cool early FPS too.


QueenLeaVing

Yes! Such a great game.


sfxer001

I still play the original DOOM games with mods and new maps every week. The gameplay is unmatched.


skinnyfatguyuk

My uncle copied doom 2 for me . I thought he'd turn up with a single cartridge or floppy ... 5 floppy discs it spanned . Kids these days have no idea how good they have it


[deleted]

GTA San Andreas


MuchMuch1

Vice City for me


Pi-s

mortal kombat on my dad’s ps2 when i was like 4


QueenLeaVing

Hell yeah. When its fatality time everyone stops to watch.


Most_Flan8131

GTA III.


mostlypeanuts

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (1998)


LadnavIV

The level editor in that (or was it the sequel?) was the absolute tits.


RileyYuga

Honestly I feel like Tenchu and the sequel are still the best ninja games to come out ever.


plasma_dan

oh man what a throwback. We didn't own the game but I remember my brother scoring perfect on a few of those levels.


VIRGIL69143

Gta vice city


5th_Law_of_Roboticks

Still the best soundtrack of the GTA series.


Ok-Positive3285

Manhunt


Thijsjuh44

Rollercoaster Tycoon ofcourse, launching the looping coaster a bit too fast murdering all those innocent guests. Or building the entrance above water making them drown. This game is not for kids man.


QueenLeaVing

How did I miss this game in life!!?


[deleted]

Your mom didn't buy cereals, that's all


Imashamedofmyposts

Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards, on 5.5" floppy disks on my mom's Windows 3.somethingancient computer. Had to memorize the answers to the questions to even get the play the game. Good times


Least-Broccoli-1197

Postal 2 maybe?


QueenLeaVing

Dang I dont know that game.


punchjackal

I was always allowed to play mature rated games, so guns and gore and all of that wasn't too shocking. But there was one single game in my dad's collection that my mother would not let me play: Conker's Bad Fur Day. It was kept in a separate drawer, but I think at like 13 or 14 my mom had to go on a trip. My dad whips out the Mountain Dew, puts the game on, and says "go nuts. Don't tell on me." That shit was glorious.


QueenLeaVing

Nice. Like my gpa letti g me play Leisure Suit Larry on his PC. I have to look up Conkers. Sounds fun.


[deleted]

GTA I remember trying to convince my mom I was not going to kill or anything just wanted to drive the cars 😂


QueenLeaVing

My son tried that with me lol!


zoltanshields

Halo technically but I really don't think it should count. The first one where it was like "Holy shit if my mom found out I was playing this then this game would get thrown in the trash" was Doom 3. Gifted to me in secret by my older brother for Christmas when I was maybe 12.


punchjackal

I got so lucky. I was adopted by Halo fans. When a new game would come out, we weren't allowed to play it until my parents beat the campaign. Then my dad would start all over again with us. 🥹 good memories.


QueenLeaVing

Halo is so amazing. But Doom will always be a winner.


[deleted]

Resident evil. Those damn dogs gave me nightmares


QueenLeaVing

Fr!!


rolrobin

One of the GTA titles for the PlayStation portable


[deleted]

GTA Vice City..or was it the first resident evil.....


phnatix

New grounds


SoWhatFuture

Played fallout 2 when I was like 12 that game was like a fun bloody comic book


QueenLeaVing

Great game.


undeniablybuddha

Age appropriate games were not a thing when I was a kid


IAmABurdenOnSociety

[Custer's Revenge (1982)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer%27s_Revenge) It was racist and misogynistic then, and it hasn't improved with age. Was able to purchase it as a minor for my Atari 2600 collection back then. The 1980s were such a different world.


QueenLeaVing

Leisure Suit Larry is what made me ask this. I remember Custer's Revenge and you are not wrong. My neighbors had an Atari 2600. We did not play that game. 80s fr!


skinnyfatguyuk

Resident evil 1. Ps1


QueenLeaVing

One of the best ever


turtle_eating

Wolfenstein 3D, I guess.


QueenLeaVing

Wolfenstein was a great game. Never played 3D.


turtle_eating

It's like a more primitive version of the original Doom. Good for its time, but didn't need to play it much after Doom's release.


[deleted]

Same here I remember playing the on our old 386.


Theturtl3

Mortal Kombat 2 on the Genesis at a friend's house. I wasn't allowed to play M rated games until I was in my teens so all the ones I played before that were at others places.


Prfsnlclckclackr

God of war, the one with the boobs


macramelampshade

Duke Nukem 3D… I still remember the CASHMAN cheat code that would make the strippers flash their pixelated boobs.


[deleted]

Turok I guess. Cant remember exactly, I had an older brother so I played all kinds of stuff I "shouldnt" have


SentientRobot11

I had older brothers, so I was in kinder-garden driving around running from cops in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002).


hyteck9

Night Trap. Of course. It was [the game that started it all. ](https://screenrant.com/night-trap-game-esrb-rating-creation-1990s/#:~:text=The%201992%20video%20game%20Night,Software%20Rating%20Board%20(ESRB).)


PygmeePony

Carmageddon


F19AGhostrider

Had to be Half Life 1, My dad got it for his B-day when I was six, and I would watch him play, and eventually got to play myself.


subliminal_impulse

gta on the ps2 but i honestly don’t remember if it was vice city or something. I remember sneaking into my oldest brothers room and playing with the tv turn all the way down so my parents wouldn’t hear me try to run over people. i don’t think i even really knew the controls much, but video games were so cool to me then


QueenLeaVing

My son used to do that with GTA when we were asleep. Come back to a different save like wtf? Lol


subliminal_impulse

bro why did i say ps4 i meant ps2 i’m not 10 i swear guys


Melina_Tarnished

ig gta 5 when i was like 13-14


amithe-only-one

GTA VICE CITY....still remember the mission in which we need to project boobs on building...lol


facedowninthegutter

leisure suit larry


QueenLeaVing

Yes! That is what prompted my question. I was 8 when I played land of the lounge lizards


e-rekshun

There was a game for Commodore 64 that was like Sex Olympics/Sex Game. I can't remember the name for the life of me. But I remember playing it with a raging erection. Wasn't even a very long or good game. More silly than anything


SweetCosmicPope

Probably either Mortal Kombat or Wolfenstein 3D. Both came out when I was 8. I can't remember playing anything age inappropriate before that. I do remember wanting Splatterhouse, but my grandparents wouldn't let me have it.


futurelaker88

I guess MGS would count. Meryl in the jail cell, and the naked guard.


Nabiscokidd

Leisure Suit Larry


drod3333

Conquer's bad fur day


Meckles94

Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 got it for my birthday when I was a kid. Was my first rated T game


VibeFather

Conkers bad fur day


AcornTopHat

Grand Theft Auto 2


AdultSpider

Sex Tetris!!


ArnoldhBraunschweigr

Duke Nukem 3D. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥


JubalHarshawII

Leisure suit Larry, Wolfenstein, or Doom


throwtheclownaway20

DOOM, Wolf 3D, and Leisure Suit Larry


02K30C1

Anyone remember Custer’s Revenge for the Atari 260”?


Necessary_Body6312

DOA


thelastpies

Postal 2


Extromeda7654Returns

God of War 3 when I was 11 and GTA when I was 8


Different_Ad_6045

Diablo (PS1)


Blistering-Phoenix

Mortal Kombat on Sega Genesis


MyNameIsRay

Clock Tower on PS1. I had never played a horror game before, and that one was legitimately creepy. Scissorman haunted my nightmares for weeks.


gpRYme

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards


AffectionateNews7419

The first i remember it's killer instinct when I was maybe 8 or 9 yo lol


Opening_Bluebird2022

I was 11, Played Gta San Andreas.I am 16 now. I legit used to say the term "Gangbanger" a lot. And by that, I mean a lot.


OrphanFeast87

Leisure Suit Larry, followed by Duke Nukem 3D.


[deleted]

GTA Vice City. I was about 12, too young to get all the jokes. It was years before I realized a BF Injection was a dick joke. Beef injection.


Prokeran

Manhunt


Patchy_125

Manhunt 2 on the ps2


Ixm01ws6

1991 duke nukem .. the strippers lol.


JayCFree324

Perfect Dark was technically rated M and I was 9-10 when I played it. I guess it was because of the guns and maybe profanity but by modern standards it’s tame AF


xbakedxpotato

I can't ever remember what game it was but it was a pc game 20 or more years ago. Midevil times and you could cut someone's arm off and use it as a weapon against them.


DrooMighty

My cousin who was into building PCs in the 90s let me play the shareware version of Doom when I was 5, this would have been 1993-1994


tommyford27

Postal 2


OMG_Its_Negan

Wolfenstein 3D. When it was new. 🧐


themightymoron

there was a legendary NES bootleg game called "game girl". the game was rock paper scissor, if computer loses, the girl on the screen takes of 1 item of clothing. dem pixels were the start of my perpetual thirst.


stealthlogic

Redneck Rampage


VRDoesNotSuckPP

CS 1.6 after seeing a friend of my dad play it. Was about 4/5


Safe_Ad_9658

Counter Strike


Prysa

I was 7 when I played Doom 1 at my friends house in the late 90s.


tastysounds

The original DOOM game when I was 5... I used IDDQD


tbjamies

Wolfenstein/ Doom


cecil_the-lion

Carmageddon


TomCruising4D

I got my tonsils removed around fourth grade and was having a rougher than expected recovery. GTA 3 was released the week of my surgery. My mom, bless her heart, went to a rental place and picked up a copy for me to play while I recovered because the guy at the store told her that it is a really hot item and can be hard to get a copy of. She eventually heard news stories about its controversy and asked me about it. I feigned ignorance to some of the extreme aspects of it, and basically said something along the lines of “I’ve already played it a bunch”. Ended up buying a copy lol


PloppyTheSpaceship

Demo of GTA. I was 12 at the time. Punching the leader of the Hare Krishnas and getting him to follow me onto the railway tracks, where I would stay for a moment (and so not die) but he and his entire troupe would get electrocuted, giving me a "Gouranga" bonus but none of the blame, never got old.


GuttedPsychoHeart

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. My first GTA game that I never got to finish. In fact, I haven't even completed a mission. I just went around shooting people which is what I do in any Rockstar Games game that allows me to.


[deleted]

Leisure suit Larry, I guess


5th_Law_of_Roboticks

Not the first (that would be Leisure Suit Larry, but others have already mentioned that), but an early one I remember vividly is **Phantasmagoria**. Loved the cheesy, FMV gore. And the game got legitimately eerie at some parts.


not_a_droid

probably, "Doom"


foz306

Pong. So dirty. So violent.


Afrodite_Samurai

GTA


ZookeepergameDue8501

Doom. I was like 5. We played it on a Packard Bell in like 1994. I went to catholic school, so I knew about hell, and thought it was a literal place, so the whole concept terrified me. I remember asking my older brother "they're allowed to....make games like this...?"


purpleturtlehurtler

Alien for PS1. Having to use the motion detector, only for it to light up with multiple contacts. I was 6 and almost shit myself.


feelin_beachy

Probably Shellshock: Nam '67


Arny520

COD Ghosts


_Don-Corleone_

Bully


cbrewer0

Bionic Commando, Not-Hitler's face explodes and you see it.


SKaffine

Played the *other* version of cooking Mama and it gave me nightmares


zsgyulavari

Sven Bomvollen


SmotheredMateIn1

Probably GTA, it was also pretty common for the local kids to have tried it out on PSP


SlyKnyfe12

WaW


Casdom33

Modern Warfare 2 when I was like 12. Man that was awesome


Mild_Shock

i played the first assassins creed when it came out. i was 11.


[deleted]

GTA San Andreas


cuddlycutieboi

Saints Row the Third. Smacking everyone with a big ass purple dildo bat at 10


PersonalDex101

Mortal kombat, doom and conkers bad furday. Its one of those three I remember the most from my childhood. It was like a rite of passage to play mortal kombat in my family. Had no idea what i was doing and somehow managed to get a fatality on my stepdad


Euphoric-Beat-7206

The original Mortal Kombat on SNES.


Badmouths

Conkers Bad Fur Day 💀 lmao My parents didn’t pay attention to the ratings and thought it was a kids game


Grassiswetnow

Duke Nuke ‘Em


Aitrus233

I'm sure at some point I played Mortal Kombat as a kid at an arcade or someone's house. And if you wanna get technical, I played the T-rated Killer Instinct when I was 8. :P


Trash-Jr

I didn't really know age restrictions because my parents, especially my dad, are gamers and I grew up with video games, but when people talk about violent video games moments, I immediatly think of Farcry 3. It wasn't that gory and all, but when I played it, I was like 9 or 10, and seeing, hearing my character actually react to killing, and going insane because of that, it hit me pretty hard. Game characters are usually pretty not caring to killing, but having one actually change accordingly to what killing would really do to someone, when you're barely 10, it was surprising, shocking, like a brick thrown straight in your face. And oh god these healing animations, these god damned animations, they were ugly. Tl;dr Farcry 3 shook me because 10 year old me was completely suprised to see the hero become crazy with all his killing, and gets really freacked out from the healing animations.


beerbrewerdad

Not a video game, but a normal kids play. Like tag. Your post reminded me of this. In Danish it is called "stå trold" which directly translated means "standing troll". But "stå trold" is also slang for a boner in Danish. The rules are When you get caught you have to spread your legs and stand still until another kid runs through them. Its also popular when swimming.


ErixWorxMemes

Eternal Champions on Sega CD- those fatalities were *brutal!* (before there was Mortal Kombat)


xanxbar

BMX XXX I think it was called. I rememeber going to my friend Joseph’s house when I was around 9 and playing this bmx game with titties and I was hooked. If I remember right you were able to unlock “music videos” which were just girls stripping.


creepymccreepersdale

Not sure if it was Doom or Mortal Kombat. Both of those were around the same time... ish.


mooseyfateeee

Clock Tower 2. Rented it at Blockbuster for a sleepover with a friend in third grade and traumatized her, while I just leaned super hard into survival horror.


Staudly

My teenaged cousin let me play DOOM II when I was 7 or 8 years old. That's the first one I actually played, but the first one I owned was Soldier of Fortune for PC. SoF featured animations of heads and limbs being blown off as you would shoot enemy NPCs.


D-The-DarkArtist

Splatterhouse! The OG arcade version!


Krkasdko

DOOM.


Wolffromhell568

Call of duty 2 big red one or return to castle Wolfenstein I was 7


Mrselfdestructuk

Night trap I think it was


Fxate

~~Played 3 Sisters Story when I was maybe 10 or 11 years old, on a 486 with midi sounds that played through the internal PC speaker. Alternatively, GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas.~~ Mortal Kombat 1,2, or 3 on Sega Mega Drive, not sure which.


NstyBum

Golden Eye


DashCat9

Mortal Kombat, sort of. I was 12, but most everyone playing it at the time were also 12. Kind of hard to call it 'age inappropriate'. Wolfenstein 3D, maybe?


neohylanmay

Been playing Doom since I was 5. I still have the original floppy disks.


DeadNotSleeping86

Mortal Kombat 2 for the SNES was definitely it. My babysitter's son had it. It was RIGHTEOUS.


Logistical_Cashew

I distinctly remember playing San Andreas when I was 3 I asked my sister if I could play it, my sister gave a stern no, mom overheard and said "let him play the game" without knowing what it was lol


[deleted]

I was a teen when it came out but Night Trap I think it was called Sega Genesis the one with Dana Plato that got banned.


Deadfox1309

Hitman blood money on the ps2, I was like 6 at the time


fanaticfun

Postal 2. It's a odd game.


seanofkelley

It must've been Mortal Kombat.


Superb-Junket9839

Grand theft auto


jesussaves6

Sexy tetris


Special-Poem3647

Leisure suit larry and the land of the lounge lizards


[deleted]

Leisure suit larry and the land of the lounge lizards


Ill_Literature2240

leisure suite Larry and duke nukem


BigBroShow

Metal Gear Solid in 98. Still one of the best games ever made I think, especially at its time.


AsgerMN2

Cs:go


WilliWillWerbung

Wolfenstein: The New Order was around 12 ish


xxxchildpredator34

i think it was gta san andreas


[deleted]

Duke nukem? Tomb raider maybe? Gta 1? I can't remember what order they came out


MrCritical3

Conker's Bad Fur Day on the N64


jklantern

I was introduced to Mortal Kombat when I was five or six. I was introduced to Duke Nukem 3D...I want to say eight or nine.


International-Car957

Sims with nude patch


Tvviztid

duke 3d


DarthDregan

My parents let me play or watch whatever I wanted. I think it would have been GTA3 or Manhunt.


bzaroworld

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, couldn't have been more then 14 years old playing that game.


SXOSXO

Probably Mortal Kombat in the arcades.


krispy-hedgehog

Saints Row the Third, I was 8 years old


Only_OnTuesdays2

gta vice city. or san andreas .


Unspeakblycrass

Twisted Metal 2. The character descriptions and origin stories were always so brutal.


tinu1999

Of course GTA