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[DryvBy]

For me, it was Die Hard Trilogy. That beautiful M-rated logo. That R rated movie it was based around. My parents may have let me play MK games and Wolf3d/Doom, but I thought this was pretty epic when I was pre-teen. Now you look at it and it's such a soft mature game. I had to sneak this into the house on my PC, so I thought. My dad saw me playing it later and didn't care.

 

[Genesis Knight]

When I was very young I thought Samurai Shodown on Genesis was edgy bc of the blood and the way Charlotte shouts 'BASTARD!" (I think?) during one attack

 

[Kings Field]

I still remember the virgin at the EB GAMES refusing to sell this to me so I went and got my mommy from Kmart to come purchase it. I was standing there and he was rambling about how the game is rated M and this and that blah blah blah. I thought I was the cool kid amongst my friends and the game sucked buttermilk straight from the source.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

Big box PC edition double pack of GTA+ London. Compared to what was to follow... it seems kind of tame now.

 

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Tomb Raider I, II, and III.

 

[amigastar]

Big box PC edition double pack of GTA+ London. Compared to what was to follow... it seems kind of tame now.

I loved the music in GTA + London. But yeah my pick also goes to GTA.

 

[diffusionx]

I still remember the virgin at the EB GAMES refusing to sell this to me so I went and got my mommy from Kmart to come purchase it. I was standing there and he was rambling about how the game is rated M and this and that blah blah blah. I thought I was the cool kid amongst my friends and the game sucked buttermilk straight from the source.

At a certain point you weren't allowed to sell M-rated games to kids. I think it was more PS2 era though.

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

More mind numbing than postal. It was... the edginess wore off for me even then after playing it for like 5 minutes. However, those first five minutes did make me feel like really did "effed around"

 

[BennyBlanco]

I remember I had to get my mom to come with me to buy Conkers Bad Fur Day. I guess there was a talking poop boss, and some furry bikini girls. It was really nothing.

Same with Leisure Suit Larry.

 

[Spiral1407]

Assassin's Creed 2. And you BET I kept the blood on

 

[jshackles]

Tomb Raider I, II, and III.

SPICY

 

[No BBC=Anger]

I loved the music in GTA + London. But yeah my pick also goes to GTA.

It's on point. The whole series is pretty good. No one really brings up the art of the originals too often. 70s style in this poster.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Duke Nukem 3D, I guess. It's all pretty innocuous.

 

[BlackTron]

All this does is remind me of when I rented Turok and then after I got home my mom noticed the rating and took it away.

The whole thing was so preposterous with the N64 level dinosaurs I had to try not to laugh when I was 12

 

[Generic]

Hentai games on Newgrounds.

 

[poppabk]

Mortal Kombat

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[AJUMP23]

Mortal kombat was considered edgy. But I still played it when my mom was in Walmart.

Leisure suit Larry would be there too. But I have never played those.

Doom was edgy for the violence and devil. Still played it.

 

[intbal]

 

[Magic Carpet]

Toejam and Earl is not a game about buying drugs.
At least I hope not because that was a conversation I remember.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

I suppose early South Park games on the Nintendo 64 and such would be very tame compared to current the South Park games.

 

[Ceadeus]

I felt like a criminal doing illegal stuff when I played Thrill Kill on the original Playstation. Because it was a controversial and unreleased game and I could get my hands on a burned copy.

 

[DryvBy]

I remember I had to get my mom to come with me to buy Conkers Bad Fur Day. I guess there was a talking poop boss, and some furry bikini girls. It was really nothing.

Same with Leisure Suit Larry.

I actually bought it with my own money. In my household, this would have been banned if my parents knew the content.

 

[The Pleasure]

I still remember the virgin at the EB GAMES refusing to sell this to me so I went and got my mommy from Kmart to come purchase it. I was standing there and he was rambling about how the game is rated M and this and that blah blah blah. I thought I was the cool kid amongst my friends and the game sucked buttermilk straight from the source.

It's your own fault for buying an acclaim game.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I used to think this was basically a porn game at the time. I mean, you had to answer a quiz to access the game so it didn't help that assumption. It belonged to my friend's dad, and I remember we tried to get into it multiple times, and finally did. We were blown away about typing things for him to do, and him doing them, lol. Looked exactly like that bottom image at the time. So funny to me. I think I was about 8 or 9 years old? Lol.

 

[ReBurn]

I don't think my preteen years had edgy games. I guess the Atari 2600 porn games, but I didn't know anything about them until I was older.

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

Nah, all the M-rated games I played as a young boy were pretty "edgy" during its time.

- I laughed when you can run over pedestrians in GTA3. I was disappointed that Driver on PS1 didn't have that feature, so I was pleasantly surprised when GTA3 had it.

- Parents rented Conker's Bad Fur Day from Blockbuster, with the save-file right before the Sunflower lady getting plowed by the King Bee.

- Got in trouble in class drawing a squirrel soldier from Conker, saying all kinds of shit no kid from Grade 5 should be exposed to.

- South Park on N64 was fucking awesome.

 

[CLW]

Night Trap I mean it did get pulled from the shelves

 

[DrMano]

This is the only game I've ever played where my dad legit got concerned and angry that I was becoming violent because of playing video games.

I was angry and violent because I was a disrespectful and sheltered little shit.

 

[Clintizzle]

Fortnite

 

[Kings Field]

It's your own fault for buying an acclaim game.

Brother, all I cared about was EC fucking W at the time. Was my favorite wrestling organization and 13 year old me was hyped for it. Looking back at it, it was a mistake but memories nonetheless lol.

 

[kevboard]

I mean... even as a 12yo, I already had multiple games that were banned or unrated in Germany

like Manhunt for example, the guy who sold it to my grandpa (who bought it for me) literally committed a crime by importing and selling it...
so I don't think I ever was under the impression that games that aren't edgy are edgy, as my family was pretty chill about this stuff.

 

[Boneless]

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

What was the name of that cel shaded ps1 game with the 2 lesbian spies?

Edit: Fear Effect!