Before I got into gaming, as a little kid, I never saw commercials for games rated M for mature, I only saw commercials for T and E rated games. I had no idea that the rating meant what age group it is for, I thought it meant for how many players! I misheard T for teen as T for Team, and I thought it meant you couldn't play it with one player, so you had to play with a team! Using that logic, I thought that E for everyone meant that everyone can play it, whether alone or with friends!
A childhood belief about computer games
others believed things like this
- ‘Unadulterated’ meant that something wasn’t rated 18+ and was therefore safe for kids— Evie
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- When I was younger I thought MTV was an x-rated station because I thought M stood for Mature.— Aeris
- I used to believe that boarding school was where people went to play board games.Anon
- When I was a little kid i thought cattle meant a group of cats— It's a group of cows and bulls!
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy