First M-Rated video game you played?

[wildojinx]

What was the first video game with an M rating you played? Doom 2 for me.

[chrom]

Tenchu Stealth Assassins

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Doom? Or did it pre-date the ESRB? Or Which Mortal Kombat home release was the first with an ESRB rating? Maybe that.

[Mecca]

I played Night Trap before it was banned so there!

[darbus alan]

Either Mortal Kombat 2 (I can't remember if it had an M rating at release, but it did get retroactively M rated in later re-releases) or Doom 2.

[The Legend of Groose]

I guess Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis would count? It was MA-13 or whatever at the time. It's also the greatest game ever made. Not like Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong sucks!

[tirtefaa]

Either Doom or Mortal Kombat. Just the amount of controversy surrounding those games made any child want to check it out just because of that.

[Denny Zen is Cooking™]

I can't remember for certain, but if I had to guess it was probably Duke Nukem 64.

[pinja]

I guess "Splatterhouse 3". Was great fun, but I never beat it. Actually, it's hard to tell, because that was the time I was introduced to many Mega Drive and Mega CD games not meant to be played by elementary school students.

[Push R Truth]

I'm assuming the Leisure Suit Larry games we played back in the before time would have been rated M/AO if the rating existed then. The first "Actually Rated M" game was probably Doom.

[WoodStoner1]

NARC I guess would retroactively count as one?

[Savage Gambino]

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. My uncle owned a copy.

I was quite disappointed the first time I came across the classic MK3 arcade game in Canada and found it ninja-less.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Dec 19, 2023 14:31:31 GMT -5 Savage Gambino said:

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. My uncle owned a copy.

I was quite disappointed when I came across the classic MK3 arcade game in Canada and found it ninja-less.

Same but my parents bought it for our SNES.

[hashtagdaley/JudasDay]

Resident Evil 2. The good people at Wal Mart let a 12 year old me purchase it without a second thought.

[Duke Cameron]

Saints Row 4. I stuck to mostly sports games before that.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Mortal Kombat II, since I had a SNES and the first one wasn't M-rated, best I can tell.

[Timeless Hayterade]

Pre-ESRB? The PC port of Doom.
After the ESRB was established? Mortal Kombat 2.

[darbus alan]

Dec 19, 2023 16:17:39 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Mortal Kombat II, since I had a SNES and the first one wasn't M-rated, best I can tell.

First one is one of the reasons the ESRB ratings were invented, yeah. Though the SNES version might've been rated T if it did get rated because of all the Nintendo of America-mandated censorship with blood becoming a gray "sweat" and the fatalities being really toned down.

[Celexa Bliss]

Surprisingly, I don't think I've ever played an M-rated game lol Maybe the Game Boy port of MK2, that my cousin loaned me when we were 11?

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

resident evil director's cut and i somehow beat that without any help as a kid. good shit and still one of my favorites