Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
Although it was rated M retroactively when the ESRB started eating games, I do remember playing Leisure Suit Larry on the PC when I was a young ‘80s kid and the parents were asleep.
Fable 3 was not only my first mature rated game, but also the first game I played on a home console not called the Wii. My mother and sister were in the room for the first session, including a scene where you choose who dies between your love and a group of peasants(got spooked and allowed the decision to lapse, condemning them all to die). About a decade later and I sure should've put Halo in the disk slot first
First one I can think of that was obviously no holds barred rated M was Splatterhouse in the arcade. Played a bunch of other "violent" games before that but this one was a fucking gorefest.
The first one I can recall is the original Silent Hill, but I shadowed my Dad, so that was a half and half effort.
First one I played entirely myself (I actually played two at the same time) - Leisure Sweet Larry: Magna Cum Laude and GTA San Andreas. Some intro to M games - Sex, violence, drugs, bad humour, gangs, crimes... Baptism by fire.
Resident evil 3 nemesis and gta 2 (this was a few years before 3 was even in beta testing) that i swiped from a family member's house and took home to play on my own ps1. those were the days
Mine was GTA3, I played it at my uncles and asked my mom if I could have one too. She said no since there are hookers in the game, I was sad but my uncle came by a week or so later with a shiny copy of GTA3 and handed it to me with a wink.
GTA San Andreas on PS2. I lived in Vietnam back then and there were places where people set up multiple PlayStations in their homes and you pay them to play multiple games copied on to a disk.
In Australia we have MA-15+ (which is what games like call of duty and shit get rated) and R-18+. I can't remember my first MA-15+ game because I played a ton of them on my dad's PlayStation but my first R-18+ game is probably Grand Theft Auto V or The Last of Us.
When I was on a shopping trip with one of my friends and his family around the age of 14-15ish I managed to persuade his mom to take a used copy of Bioshock 2 for the Xbox 360 to the counter and use my money to buy it because my mom would totally be fine with me playing an 18 rated game. I played that game to death, and my mom surprisingly didn’t really get mad when she realised that I had it several months later, presumably because I was a good kid and clearly hadn’t been turned into a school shooter by vidya violence. She still wouldn’t buy me 18 rated games herself, but if I managed to accumulate them by other means (like Games with Gold or a friend giving me their copy) then she didn’t get assblasted about it or anything.
Although back then, even the mildest reference to death would send parents up on arms. I remember doodling a picture of Death Tower from the non bowdlerized version of Flashback, and my friend's mother found out and ratted me out to my mother. You can spot the censored logo below.
Another time, my mom got wind of Arcade's Revenge and forbid me from playing it again. That game wasn't even violent, but the manual mentions Arcade's past as a hitman.