Do your parents care about age ratings?

well im 16 now so I can buy any films I like.. If i wanna buy an 18 I just order them online with my card :L


They never used to be strict at all, I was always allowed to watch the age rating that I wasnt allowed to watch so when i turned 12 i was allowed to watch 15.

The only game my mum doesnt want me playing is manhunt. i wouldnt really want to play it anyway.

I remember when she used to feign shock when i played gta 1 when i was 5.

i remember the only other media i wasnt allowed was kevin and perry go large until my 6th birthday :).

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Originally Posted by Apple

I see a lot of people played GTA when they were younger despite it being rated 18, I think what was so good about it when we were younger (and still is) is the fact that you have a world that you can do anything you want, you have the freedom to drive cars/boats around and fly planes/helicopters or go around on massacres with your gun like in films you have seen. I wouldn't be surprised at all though if GTA has caused many young pre-teen players to do silly stuff like try driving cars irl.

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Only the real impressionable, naive or plain dumb :P The sort who can't tell the fictional/imaginary from reality. The sort you wouldn't hit round the head with a pillow because you'd be worried about doing major damage :P

Not in the slightest, but everytime i do something bad she used to bring it up, but now im older i havent heard her mention it in a while. I think i got GTA 1 when i was like 7 or 8 or somethin

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Originally Posted by Moh

I don't understand age 15 rated games - what 15yo is going to have ID?

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Don't know about anywhere else, but in Scotland we get given ID; the 'Young Scot' card, when we're 12.


My mums never really cared, but my dad did.
I think the first 18 I asked for was GTA: Vice City when it came out, after I'd seen my friend playing it at his house, I was like 10.
I had games like Doom before that, that I'd gotten when I was even younger, but I was too scared to play them :P

When i was younger they were fairly strict, i think i was 13 by the time i had my first 15 rated game (Destroy all humans) but when i reached 15/16 they really mind what i played watch. and now i'm 17 they just leave it up to me

Would probably have been a little dissaproved of playing an 18 4 years ago, but still allowed and not really thought of. Age rating is more a maturity rating, or a mental age... or mental ability to differentiate between a game and real life.

They used to when i was like 15 trying to get a 18 but after i said i could get someone else to buy me it they baught me it next time we went into town. So yeh, I don't think so

Got GTA 3 when I was about 8, wasn't allowed Vice City though due to the name, "Vice" meaning sex which is where my parents draw the line. However from about age 13 I was allowed anything.

I had GTA when I was like 7 for the PSX. Which carried on with Resident Evil, etc. So nope :P