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1H a day. After homework

I don't remember my parents having many, if any, rules for games, probably because I was the final child by that point. They didn't really have to worry too much about me getting into games too mature for me ( probably the worst I could remember when I was still little would have been Turok on n64 ), so I was fine either way.

I do remember on weekends, though, my dad specifically trying to get me, someone who doesn't like to eat breakfast in general, to eat before I'd play games. That was around middle school when that would happen.

The only rule was I had to get them myself (unless it was a special occasion) and not to disturb the house while gaming.

Most of my PC games were from the win95 and MS-DOS era. But I do remember getting half-life 1 and eventually 2, and all the crazy mods that came out for those.

I remember playing the leisure suit larry games and not understanding any of the jokes haha.

"Use your common sense. You know what's appropriate and what's not."

No rules, except that they weren't paying for anything, so I play a bunch of free-to-play games and (maybe) learned the ways of Captain Jack Sparrow 🏴‍☠️ 😉

I mean, my parents didn't even care if I shoplifted as long as I don't get caught. (I don't shoplift, but if I did, my parent would be more worried like "did they see you take it" more than the morality/legality implications.)

Nothing over PG (and sometimes it even that) and only allowed to play 1 hour a day at most.

I was never much into video games, but my first real interest was for Doom and then for StarCraft. I was also heavy into C&C... I was already an adult and fixed my own rules, deciding on what I wished to spend my time and waste my money.

The first video game I played as a kid was some kind of Pong version, on an Atari console. So, yeah... not much video games for me as a child. With the other kids, we played cards, board games, we played outside too (it's great), we played chess and checkers, we also played doctor, we read a lot too. And there was no real need to set rules or limits (even less so on what we were allowed to read), not even when we played doctor, mind you—not even to tell us what was then obvious but that seems very much forgotten by too many nowadays, to not be a dick, because acting like one would warrant instant karma feedback from all the others players/participants involved... and that was kinda very quickly formative ;)

Computer games and handheld games were allowed, but no video game consoles ever until we were adults.

I was playing mortal Kombat when I was 9-10. They didn't do due diligence, and if I thought they'd have a problem with it, I would just lie about it. I'm still playing mortal Kombat but compared to everyone else in the world, I suck ass now. Same with call of duty. From 19- 28 or so, I was awesome. Quit playing when they announced advanced warfare because it was getting too corny and the maps kept getting worse and worse for making plans, and all about chaos and random encounters. Got MW2 with my PS5 for nostalgia, and I again found that I wasn't as good as I used to be. Oh and all the stupid skins like santa running around in a warzone was fucking stupid. They should've left that to fortnight. These days I mostly play racing sims (thankfully I'm still really good at GT7) and RPGs which is funny that as I got older I wound up playing more family friendly stuff.

None

They were watching it, there were some time restrictions, sometimes, and I didn't want to play bloody games or FPS anyway, so there was never any discussion about getting or not getting them.

But I did get a gameboy at 6, which helped greatly with learning to read, because guess what, if you read slow, the story and progress is slow.

I wouldn't say "weird", but there were rules.

I think my parents looked at the PEGI logo, or whatever it was before, and respected it until I was 13 or 14. But I was a sensitive child so I didn't want to watch violent movies or killing zombies.

I loved video games as a kid. They didn't limit the content. I just wasn't able to play video games during the week and I could only play an hour each day. I think that mindset backfired. Also, it didn't stop me from going over to my friends house to play video games. By the time I could afford my own, they gave up.

No specific rules on content, although I'm sure a game would have been retroactively banned if our mom saw something gory. The rules were on time spent playing. 30 min per kid per school day, only after schoolwork and chores were done. 60 min per kid on weekend days, again after chores were done.

Minesweeper was not considered a game, for some reason. So we were all hella fast at minesweeper on the highest difficulty.

I don't remember rules about video games. My house was chaotic and unpredictable, and my parents don't understand boundaries. Besides, video games back then were primitive and family friendly. They were seen as just another toy.