What was your first M rated game?

[William Blazkowicz]

I'm pretty sure most of us have played an M rated game in our youth. It does not matter when you played it, however, but what was your first M rated game you ever played?

As for me, the first M rated game I played was Mortal Kombat on a controller that you plug into the TV.

[45th Parrallel]

Doom

[DoomUK]

It was either Mortal Kombat or Night Trap (that awful interactive movie thing for the Mega CD/Sega CD). I can't recall the order in which I played them.

[MFG38]

Doom 3. No surprise probably.

[Doominator2]

If I can recall my first M rated game was Perfect Dark on the N64 when it first came out.

[Avoozl]

Probably Mortal Kombat 3 on the Sega Megadrive, the game was rented and it was my brother who owned the Sega system.

[Mr. Freeze]

Doom.

[Kontra Kommando]

I'm pretty sure for me, it was Mortal Kombat back in 1992.

[MajorRawne]

There's no M rating in the UK, they used 12, 15 and 18 back then. Doom was either a 15 or 18. I think it was the first take to carry such a rating, so that would have been it for me.

[schwerpunk]

Doom for the SNES. I remember very specifically, because of how dismayed I was when my parents forbade me to rent it. They changed their mind shortly after, without any whining on my part, and I was forever changed.

[Technician]

Doom.

[Platinum Shell]

Using my amazing skills of deduction, my first memory of Doom would have to be Odyssey of Noises, Map 29 of the Plutonia Experiment. My grandpa was on the roof top of a brown building in the level and if I recall correctly, the sky was red? (I haven't played through all of TNT or Plutonia yet partly because of all of the amazing content this community makes)Anyway, back to the story, my granpa's dog at the time, Bobobo, got loose and my grandpa left the game in a flash as my mom and him went chasing after the dog. I was left alone to look at the screen, and after about three seconds a revenant (I can't believe how vividly I remember it) came around the corner and started punching Doomguy to death. I laughed.

EDIT: Yep, the sky on that level is indeed red!

[Kirby]

Doom I suppose. Never realized it had an M rating. More significant to my memory of M games thougj was the fame that followed shortly after - Duke Nukem 3D

[chungy]

M didn't exist at the time, but Doom.

[geekmarine]

I think my first M-rated game was Mortal Kombat. I may have played something else before that, but my memory is a little fuzzy. Funny thing is, I hated Mortal Kombat, so I really wasn't into it anyway, but I was at a friend's house and he wanted to play it (I'm not good at fighting games anyway, and I thought the controls sucked).

[Krispy]

Platinum Shell said:

Using my amazing skills of deduction, my first memory of Doom would have to be Odyssey of Noises, Map 29 of the Plutonia Experiment. My grandpa was on the roof top of a brown building in the level and if I recall correctly, the sky was red? (I haven't played through all of TNT or Plutonia yet partly because of all of the amazing content this community makes)Anyway, back to the story, my granpa's dog at the time, Bobobo, got loose and my grandpa left the game in a flash as my mom and him went chasing after the dog. I was left alone to look at the screen, and after about three seconds a revenant (I can't believe how vividly I remember it) came around the corner and started punching Doomguy to death. I laughed.

EDIT: Yep, the sky on that level is indeed red!

Heh wrong thread. You lose.

[Technician]

chungy said:

M didn't exist at the time, but Doom.

Good point.

[Kontra Kommando]

Not to derail the thread, but I'm very grateful that my family didn't give a shit about content ratings when I was growing up.

[Seeker_of_Truth]

sgt dopey said:

Doom

[hardcore_gamer]

Doom is the earliest I remember, though there is some slight chance it could have been some other one I don't remember.

[Shadow Hog]

First M-rated game I played was probably Halo: Combat Evolved on the original Xbox. I mean, I might've played a demo of something M-rated earlier, and I'd certainly seen bits of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom beforehand, but Halo is the first one I can think of myself putting a good deal of time into.

First M-rated game I bought for myself was probably Unreal Tournament 2K4, because I could turn most of the violence off. (Of course, I don't bother to do that anymore, but I dunno, it was a selling point for me at the time.)

First M-rated game I bought for myself after turning 17, though? Doom. This compilation, specifically.

[Chopkinsca]

I have to say Doom as well.

My first game that actually had an M rating was Turok. I was at the game rental store and picked it up. My dad was with me and just told me to make sure the violence wasn't real.

[myk]

I played a bit but not much of one of the earlier Leisure Suit Larry games, maybe the first or second one, at a cousin's house.

[Phobus]

Doom was the first game to get an ESRB rating at all, IIRC - in fact, I believe the ratings were actually introduced because of Doom. So obviously Doom was my first 18 rated game. Followed by Doom II and Duke 3D, all by the time I was 7 :P

[printz]

Diablo, the Lord of Terror, and Leader of the Three!!!

[Nomad]

For games that have been retroactively given ESRB ratings, probably Doom, Rise of the Triad, or MK2. Not sure which one of these I actually played first.

[Kontra Kommando]

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/07/dayintech_0729/

Since it was established in September 1994, I guess the first M-rated game I bought that wasn't retroactively given that rating would be Mortal Kombat 3.

[Koko Ricky]

Doom, which would have been M-rated had the standard existed in 1993.

As for games with the official rating, Quake.

[Du Mhan Yhu]

NARC (NES)

[Remilia Scarlet]

I think it was either Wolfenstein 3D or Lethal Enforcers.