10 Video Games We All Played WAY Too Young

5. Grand Theft Auto

If you weren’t the nine-year-old playing Postal then you were probably the nine-year-old playing Grand Theft Auto. Any of the Grand Theft Autos will do here, really, but for my childhood let’s call it around GTA 3.

All was well at the family Christmas function until my teenage relative showed me and my brother his cool new game that featured drive-by shootings, gang wars, and drug deals.

Of course at the time kids who encountered any GTA game before they were supposed to thought this was excellent and parents wandering by would usually just see a car speeding down the road or a busy city, oblivious to the drug-riddled missions of underworld dealings and the strip clubs peppering the streets. Only upon having to explain what exactly your current mission was or why you just drove down the sidewalk mowing down a dozen civilians would you find yourself needing to make some hasty explanations.

While the majority of kids absolutely loved it, it certainly wasn’t the innocent ‘car driving simulation’ many expected it to be.