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Nickkchilla:
My parents were reluctant to pay for any type of internet service.

They were concerned about us kiddos seeing adult material and weren't particularly internet savvy, back during the days of WebTV.

I remember when we first got WebTV, there was an adult filter they figured out how to put on, and the settings blocked me from just wanting to view Nintendo's official website and Pokemon. I just wanted to figure out how to get Pikablu and Yoshi in my copy of Pokemon Red man.

I'd imagine for them back then, internet was only good for news or sexy times.

I guess they're not wrong, lol.

bizzgeburt:
My Mum didn't want us to play any Beat'em'Up or FPS till we were like 16 years old, ... but we bypassed her controls via friends  8)

By the age of 11 I was literally addicted to playing GoldenEye007 for N64.

theflea:
The only media I was not allowed at a young kid was Horror movies.
So my brother and I used to create our own by drawing comic style books in our notepads.
Then when I finally got to see a horror movie I was disappointed because they went as F'ed up as what we drew. lol

Warmsignal:
Pretty much just explicit music or anything with a parental advisory warning on it. I believe they bought into the whole "explicit music brainwashes and turns kids violent and deviant" panic that was going around since the 80s into the 90s. They didn't really seem to grasp the ESRB indicators, but on a few occasions when I'd want a mature game you'd have an asshat game-store associate give a spiel about all the "bad stuff" in a game they were about to buy for me. They'd always give in, but who the hell are these do-good'ers who think it's their job to stand there and guilt trip a customer over buying their kid some video game smut? Pizz off register jockey, it's not your place to grill people on what they buy.

redblaze57:
Closest talking to I got was that my grandfather didn't want me listening to rap/hip-hop. The song that was being played at the time he brought it up was "Burnt" by Del the Funky Homosapien which was on the Tony Hawk's American Wasteland game and the only song on the Rap/Hip-Hop list I actually enjoyed and had in rotation on that game.

Would of been funnier if it was his song "If You Must" back on THPS3 though

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