Did anyone else play a video game that was rated higher than their actual age when they were younger ??

Yeah GTA vice city. Probably the case with 90% of gamers

All the time! When I was a kid, my parents wouldn’t let me play some M-rated games, but they let me play Resident Evil, lol. And they’d always let me play T games. When I was a teen, they stopped caring altogether and I played mostly M-rated games, lol. Even before the ESRB was around, they’d let me play violent or scary games like Mortal Kombat and Clock Tower.

GTA III when I was like 9

Literally everyone I know, and neither my area nor my country have significantly higher violence/crime rates than anywhere else; rather, paradoxically, countries like the U.S. were such ratings are taken much more seriously by parents have crime rates several FOLDS higher than our.

Yep. Mortal Kombat. When I was 5.