I was a platformer / pokemon junkie for a very long time... so I never really had a ratings barrier.
Until Conker's Bad Fur Day.
But getting around that barrier was pretty easy when you had your friends parents rent it for you every weekend. Great times. 
The only game I've ever had to have someone else buy for me was RE4 when it first came out. Of course, those "someone elses" were my parents, and they knew what I was getting into. So far they haven't regretted it, and neither have I.








