My first violent game has too be streets of rage on the megadrive, awesome game, although before that i did watch my dad for a lot of the time playing doom when i was around 8

I played Duke Nukem on my dad's PC when I was in kindergarten.

The first really violent game i played was GTA3. The part i liked the most was taking a rocket launcher and blowing up big groups of people. Thats not strange is it?

Crashtestretard:
The first really violent game i played was GTA3. The part i liked the most was taking a rocket launcher and blowing up big groups of people. Thats not strange is it?

Would GTA sell so well if it was?

Well, Jill of the Jungle featured some blood, that was early on. Then later, there was Corridor 7: Alien Invasion, which had pleasant blood-spurts, floating mutant skulls, and other things, which was a good bit more hardcore. This was long after sort-of-but-not-quite filtered violence on the TV, naturally, I think by that time I'd seen The Road Warrior and a good many other films of an R-rated nature edited for TV. Truly graphic violence, I'm not really sure; I'm aware I'd seen a few maulings of one kind and another when I saw the Patriot but it still made an impression on me.

Regardless, I have one of the highest gore tolerances in my family but don't go out of the way for it.

Goldeneye on N64 was my first violent game experience...violence in general would be watching the original Jurassic Park when I was like, 5.

I did watch my dad play on Tetris, bad stuff. Seriously though mine was probably Carmageddon and then GTAI,II & III when I was about 9

Knocking out my 10 year old brother with a cricket bat when I was 6, oooh fun day lol

I remember as a kid making "home versions" of Hogan's Alley. Not even anything like the game, but for some reason, that's what I called my version.

I'd draw a picture of a bad guy on a sheet of notebook paper and place it on the ground. I'd take my compass and hold it over the picture (probably four feet off the ground) and let it fall. The compass would poke holes in the paper and if I hit the person I drew, I'd use a red marker and color around the hole, making a blood-like effect.

I'd make scoring systems for each time I played. The number of drops I get, location point ranges, etc.

Hmmm... Reaching pretty far for this one, but I'd say Quake II at 9 if that counts, Unreal Tournament also at 9 otherwise, and Half-Life at 11 if you're a real stickler.

I remember kicking my dad's ass at those too.

my brother was playing Mortal Kombat 4 on the Playstation, and you know when you got that continue screen right? Weeeeell.... my brother had no more continues and fell into the spiky pit below, and worse, i saw the WHOLE THING. I remember screaming so loud.... Eh, i guess it toughened me up a lot.

Hmm, I can't remember the first violent videogame i played, but it was at around 8/9 years old. Full throttle sounds violent (i raced people on bikes, whilst attacking them with chainsaws, tire irons, chains, concentrated fertilizer *snicker* and the like.) but wasn't. i think it was either heretic (what an awesome game) which always would creep me out a little, or virtua cop 2. But also played stuff like quake 1, duke nukem 3D, doom, GTA 1 e.t.c at the time (as well as the all-mighty and super addictive civy)

I now regularly bash peoples faces in with fire hydrants and rape people (a penny to whoever guesses what film i had to watch in film studies)....i jest. I'm fairly normal (again probably a lie, but i don't have psychotic violent tendancies)

wow, i do use to many parenthesis

SteampunkWench:
DOOM, or at least I think it was. I was 7 and my (now boy)friend showed me a level where you can continuously shoot at the dead body of Commander KEEN (anybody here remember those games?). I tell ya, seeing my little gaming hero being repeatedly raped by shotgun bullets has left a terrible scar in my mind!

I remember Commander Keen, I never bought it but played the first free levels of a couple. Oddly enough I preferred the ancient Rogue until Castle Wolfenstein came out - that's when violent video games (shooters, at least) hooked me.

I remember the end of Bionic Commando had Hitler saying "You Damn Fool" and then his head blew up. I think I was like 12 I remember thinking it was awesome.

Don't know if it was Mortal Kombat or Moonstone on the Amiga. Or possibly some crappy game for pc. Can't remember but you had to smack a lot of drug dealers. I was probably 9 at the time.

Anyways, form there I went on to Wolfenstein 3d, Doom (2), Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3d, Quake (2), Kingpin, Soldier of Fortune, all GTA games, Resident Evil etc. I think I've played just about every violent gory game I've come across.

Have been in one fight in my 26 years (outside a brothel to boot :)), but it lasted for 5 seconds and enden when one of us got hit. It was really lame. But anyhow, one and only one fight, despite the fact that I lived most of the time in a city famous for random violence and street fights. People getting stomped on the head till they get brain damage. That sort of family entertainment.

Most of the people that did that were big, strong, illiterate morons who probably haven't played a game in their life. My ex used to date a another guy, but he got to spend some time in jail for slashing a random dudes face with broken glass in a bar. The other dude spilled his beer.
Oh, and I've not been holding back on drinking and partying myself (or doing a spot of drugs), but beating some dude into pulp holds no appeal to me. Onless it's on a screen...

Quake II.

I'd have to say mine was probably Duke 3D. Albeit, this was a bit before they were really picky about video game ratings, in fact I don't even recall looking at them when I purchased things (and I looked at them even less when I would FTP them off IRC). But...I don't think it ever made ME violent. My dad made me understand the difference between right and wrong and to this day I'm a fairly easy going guy. Have I knocked a kid out? Sure, if he comes at me. Did I hit him a few times too many? Yeah, guilty. But I'm a boy damnit, and I was also taught to defend myself when the time came.

But I still remember the EPIC line of: "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum....and I'm all out of gum." You can't NOT avoid a game with a classy quote like that...violence be damned!

Hmm... I think it was.. Carmageddon 2.. well, the second one released anyway... Nope. Shit, well, it was the one with the fairly decent graphics.
Ah, here we are. Carmageddon 3: TDR 2000. (link: http://au.gamespot.com/pc/driving/carmageddon3tdr2000/) I loved this game back in 2000! I was 4 around that time (ohIsee, you have me age now) and I want to play it again, but I can't. These god damned hi-tech computers wont play it! :(

Oh well.

Anyway, my first "real" violent experience was being knocked down our (my family's) old house's concrete stairs by my FUCKING JEALOUS DOG when I was TWO YEARS OLD. Gah.

God damned bitch. The irony of it all that it WAS a bitch and that it was called JAZZ!
Wait, is that even ironic?

My videogame violent experience was Carmageddon 3: TDR 2000 as previously stated. I loved the game to infinity and beyond and I loathe myself for not having a shit computer with Windows fucking 2000 that can play it.

So. Who else wants to post their first violent experiences?

First, Mortal Kombat when I was about 6 maybe. I didn't care about the blood. Didn't really like the game. If it wasn't Sonic the Hedgehog, it was worth thinking about.

The next was probably Night Trap on the mega CD. I did find the images of a soldier hung upside down and drained of blood a bit disturbing.

It was only with Resident Evil (Saturn) and Tenchu Stealth Assasins (PSX)that I found it worth thinking about. RE for being the first to see blood really gush out in full 3D amongst the brutal killings of the other creatures, whilst with Tenchu, seeing your character rewarded with blood spraying from an enemy's neck after stealthing cutting from behind was probably the first that conflicted with my morals. I would have been about 12-13 at that time.

I'm very much anti-violence, and I prefer games where you're rewarded for avoiding killing - in Dino Crisis, RE and Silent Hill I've always made it a habit to run from or past danger than confront it (more challenge too). I'm currently trying to sell a feature length script that argues for and against how violence in the media contributes to the violent nature of young people.

For me, it's all about education. I watched Natural Born Killers when I was 15 and ironically it was what taught me how the media (especially newspapers, film and television) promote violence, and put many questions to me as to what I though violence truly is and what it means.

For me it would be the first Command and Conquer game. My friends older brother bought and we started playing. Ah the old school death scream

Pac-Man, ate a ghost, it ruined me. The first "violent" game I played was StarCraft, I was shocked over the gore.

LoZ:OoT at age 6 or 7 can't remember. The bosses made me crap my pants, I was nine when i killed Queen Ghoma by my self.

MagnetoHydroDynamics:
LoZ:OoT at age 6 or 7 can't remember. The bosses made me crap my pants, I was nine when i killed Queen Ghoma by my self.

It seems like a lot of games make us face things that scare us. I often find myself wondering how I'm supposed to kill something so obviously dominating. Makes you feel really good when you do. Half-Life 2: episode 2, right at the end? like a seratonin flood.

mortal kombat I at the arcade.

well, that was the first game i ever considered violent

The explosion of the Chimney in the movie 'Mouse Hunt', and the garbage crusher scene in Star Wars 4.

Mortal Kombat for the SNES was the first violet game I played, but it didn't effect me. I mean, I never upper cut anyone until their head flew off and some omniscient voice called out "fatality."

However, when I played Goldeneye for the N64 I realized how fun it was to shoot people. Not that I would do it in real life, but for a game it's a nice rush. Good way to let off steam, shooting Russians.

humm that depends, does sonic count as violence. if so at about 5. Other than that tekken at around 8.

Carmageddon was my first, visceral, violent video game. In my real life, I tried out for UFC back in the mid-nineties. After going two minutes in the cage, got knocked silly to the point that I'm still not cleared medically to fight in an organized full contact event. Have been a student of Kung Fu since I was eight years old (I am 31 now).

The original Mortal Kombat in the arcade back in 1992.

The origional Doom on Pc
Mortal kombat
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primal rage
that was pretty gory at times

i was 6, and as a special treat my dad let me play doom on snes with him, best experience of my life, of course id been watching him play for a few years prior hahaha

the first gory-ish games I played was duke nukem and teh origional doom,
the first violent game I played was Blake...somethingorother. all I remember was that it was like doom wit aliens with 10 floors on a spaceship. oh, and the first aid kits looked like pizza boxes

I think I would have to say Mortal Kombat. I don't know why thats everyones first violent game. It was a great game.