What was the first rated M game you played? [Archive]

Rather Dashing

01/15/2011, 05:11 pm

The ESRB has only been around since mid-1990s, I don't know of "M-Rated" really covers that much of some of our member's game history. For example, one farther-back example that I can remember of a "violent" game that I played was Doom, though that didn't carry any rating because no such rating existed.

Gman5852

01/15/2011, 05:12 pm

Come to think of it TF2.

Unless watching random family members play a wierd gta where cars fall from the sky counts.

SunnyGuy

01/15/2011, 05:13 pm

A Mortal Kombat game I guess, actually owned though, MGS The Twin Snakes.

Woodsyblue

01/15/2011, 05:19 pm

Would have been Doom for me too, as long as we are counting that as M rated. If not then it probably would have been GoldenEye.

doodo!

01/15/2011, 05:24 pm

Probably Doom if not a game like Prince of Persia...don't recall what games were rated. Maybe Street Rod if that was rated M...no clue.

Giant Tope

01/15/2011, 05:45 pm

RE4, if I recall correctly. Only for a few minutes though. Silent Hill 3 was the first I completed.

anonima

01/15/2011, 05:56 pm

if you don't count TF2, it would be lugaruHD (if it is M)

Remolay

01/15/2011, 06:04 pm

Lugaru would be E10 if anything

anonima

01/15/2011, 06:06 pm

so TF2

Secret Fawful

01/15/2011, 06:07 pm

Either Halo or Conker's Bad Fur Day.

JedExodus

01/15/2011, 06:14 pm

Mortal Kombat? Or GTA1, I dunno. We have different ratings over here. Both were rated '18' which is as high as it gets... well GTA was anyway, I can't mind tbh

GuruGuru214

01/15/2011, 06:36 pm

Wow. I had no idea TF2 was rated M.

I wouldn't swear to it, but I think my first M rated game would be Resident Evil 4. If the rating had existed, it probably would've been the original Mortal Kombat, but then RE4 would still probably be the first M rated game I played very much of, much less completed.

I wonder, though, if Guerrilla War for the NES would've been rated M. I played the hell out of that game when I was little, never knowing that the American version of the game was originally titled Guevara in Japan, and that it was actually a game based on Che Guevara's exploits and the fall of the Batista (with the second player being Fidel Castro). Of course, I had no idea who the hell Che Guevara and Fidel Castro were back then, so who knows if I would've cared anyway.

DrRocketGenius

01/15/2011, 06:42 pm

Team Fortress 2 for me also. :p

divisionten

01/15/2011, 07:06 pm

Wait... GoldenEye was M? I loved that game in elementary school. Totally tame by todays standards, eh?

Jennifer

01/15/2011, 07:44 pm

The first M-rated game I played was Mortal Kombat. It was rated MA-17 on Sega systems which was Sega's rating system before the ESRB came about with their rating system. I have no idea what the first game I played that was rated M with ESRB ratings was.

TomPravetz

01/15/2011, 07:48 pm

Redneck Rampage... :D

I should mention I was 4...

Meta Ray Mek

01/15/2011, 07:53 pm

Parasite Eve.

Mom had heard about it from one of her co-workers back when she worked at Borders. She knew I liked Final Fantasy 7 and since they were made by the same people, well, hey. No harm in it, right? So, she let me rent it.

I was twelve.

GuruGuru214

01/15/2011, 07:59 pm

Huh, if GoldenEye is rated M, then I'm not sure. I hadn't thought about it, since I borrowed it so it's not on my list. I'm not sure if I borrowed that before or after I got RE4.

I should mention I was 4...

So last year, then?

Remolay

01/15/2011, 08:03 pm

I should mention I was 4...

Still got you beat by 4 years.

redm

01/15/2011, 08:04 pm

uh Turok 64? I think I was 9

DoctorCello

01/15/2011, 08:58 pm

Goldeneye is not Rated M, you guys. It's T.

Anyway, my first was, uh... hmm. Either Silent Hill 2 or Metal Gear Solid 3, but I can't recall.

Tromeritus

01/15/2011, 09:07 pm

Either DOOM or Mortal Kombat. Whichever came first.

mgrant

01/16/2011, 01:23 am

Mortal Kombat was my first. Then I think Eternal Darkness was the next M game that interested me, but if Sanitarium was M rated, I played it before Eternal Darkness.

GeorgeC

01/16/2011, 01:28 am

Not too sure, either carmageddon or GTA1

Farlander

01/16/2011, 03:29 am

Leisure Suit Larry 7, I guess. I was six or seven years old when we got it (we bought LSL7 along with Full Throttle). Don't know what all those moral guardians are worrying about. I mean, I haven't become a sexual pervert or anything, and I'm sure most normal people wouldn't too :p

The Gentleman

01/16/2011, 04:36 am

Doom.

der_ketzer

01/16/2011, 11:20 am

Half-Life

jeeno0142

01/16/2011, 11:32 am

Debbie82

01/16/2011, 02:01 pm

Doom for Sega 32X. And I was only 12 years old then, only 5 years away from being 17 at the time.

GeorgeC

01/16/2011, 02:15 pm

I don't know whether they are 'M' rated or not, but my first 'rude, violent, and gore' game was Duke Nukem 3D. I was about 8 I think. I just remember that my primary school teacher wasn't impressed that a girl my age was talking about games like that. :p I was also playing Doom II and Heretic and what-not around that time.

Ahh, I remember that game very well. Did you ever get nightmares about those weird tiger looking things with machine guns for arms? I don't know how to describe them.

http://www.cultofmac.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/duke_nukem_monster.png

Here, this thing. Does it look like some kind of cross tiger/alien to you?

Captain Mickey

01/16/2011, 04:02 pm

Mortal Kombat. Granted I didn't play it on it's "official" release in '93 (more like '96) but hey, good times all around. I somehow was always able to do fatalities with Raiden. I loved Raiden. I loved his hat of death.

jeeno0142

01/17/2011, 03:34 am

Ahh, I remember that game very well. Did you ever get nightmares about those weird tiger looking things with machine guns for arms? I don't know how to describe them.

http://www.cultofmac.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/duke_nukem_monster.png

Here, this thing. Does it look like some kind of cross tiger/alien to you?

I don't think any of the games ever gave me nightmares. My brother and I had too much fun co-oping to be scared! Without that picture I wouldn't have known what you were going on about, but yeah. Tiger/Alien does seem to be the only way to describe it!

Icedhope

01/17/2011, 03:36 am

Doom for the SNES.

Irishmile

01/17/2011, 05:39 am

Either Lethal Enforcers or Wolfenstein 3D

wefeelgroove

01/17/2011, 01:21 pm

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. I was 12 and most of the, erm, adult themes went right over my head.

Irishmile

01/17/2011, 02:23 pm

Leisure suit Larry are the first real game I felt like I was getting away with something while playing....

Epic Kiwi

01/18/2011, 10:21 am

Dino Crisis. Never ended up finishing that game, I kept getting bored with it. :S

doodo!

01/18/2011, 10:32 am

I played Doom before I did Wolf 3D...I think.

Mr Nutt

01/18/2011, 11:57 am

If my memory serves me correctly (I seriously got to stop watching Iron Chief) my first "M" game was Doom.

SammenMacks128

01/18/2011, 06:22 pm

Half-Life 1, although I do recall being at a friend's house while they were playing a PS2 era GTA game.

DAISHI

01/19/2011, 05:07 am

Megaman X2. First time I ever saw the word "Damn" in a video game. I thought it was mindblowing.

Debbie82

01/19/2011, 08:04 am

Megaman X2. First time I ever saw the word "Damn" in a video game. I thought it was mindblowing.

Mega Man X2 is not an M-rated game, you know.

Rather Dashing

01/19/2011, 03:10 pm

http://i.imgur.com/7SerF.jpg

K-A. The equivalent of the more modern "E".

Jennifer

01/20/2011, 12:49 am

Megaman X2. First time I ever saw the word "Damn" in a video game. I thought it was mindblowing.
It's funny how you think that something so simple is such a big deal when you're a kid. I remember thinking the same thing when Razor said "damn" after she broke the piggy bank in Maniac Mansion. :)

VeronicanPlay

01/20/2011, 01:29 am

Pretty sure it was Doom.

Symbermine

01/22/2011, 10:54 am

I think it was Mortal Kombat or Killer Instinc.

StrongBrush1

01/26/2011, 02:01 pm

Halo. I was a newbie at the time.

Alcoremortis

01/26/2011, 02:19 pm

Halo. I was a very, very late-comer. Like...four games late.

henkebjorklund

01/26/2011, 02:47 pm

Hmm, I have no idea what sort of rating is labeled on any of the games I've played. But Wolfenstein 3D was one of the first games I played ever so if that one fits the bill it's probably the one.

The first time I remember playing a game with an outspoken "for adults only"-label I was 14 and the game was Phantasmagoria 2. I got the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnjZoVokb80)from a cd enclosed with a Game magazine. I thought it was among the coolest things I had ever seen at the time. Those were the good old days. :D