10 Video Games You Had To Hide From Your Parents

2. Bully

Not since Mass Effect was labelled by Fox News as a "sex simulator" has a game been so thoroughly misrepresented by the mainstream press, as - shock horror - Bully wasn't actually about making other peoples' lives a living hell.

It became the biggest factor mounting against what should have been another overwhelming success story for Rockstar, and although it definitely found its audience, the ease in which every screenshot and piece of footage could be twisted and contorted into establishing this as the child-warping anti-christ, made it every parent's worst nightmare regardless of their exposure to it. For those that did manage to check it out, one Jimmy Hopkins' interactions with the other schoolchildren was the stuff of high school escapist fantasy we could only dream of in real life.

Start a food fight in the mess hall, fight back against the jocks who insulted you from across the field, go after a member of the opposite sex (and get them!) and only turn up for the classes you wanted to - it was everything you loved about high school ideology and more.