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The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the content rating board for games released in North America, has issued an "Adults Only" (AO) rating for 24 released video games. AO is the highest rating in the ESRB system, and indicates that the organization believes that the game's content is suitable only for players aged 18 years and over.
Games with this rating contain content that the ESRB believes is suitable for ages 18 and over; the majority of AO-rated titles are adult video games with graphic sexual content. There have been isolated cases of games receiving the rating for other reasons, including high-impact violence, and allowing players to gamble using real money.
The AO rating is the only rating that is legally restricted (except in the United States). The ESRB Retail Council “Ratings Education and Enforcement Code” requires that AO-rated games are not supplied to minors, and that M-rated games are not supplied to customers under the age of 17 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. [6] EC
What parents should consider. Parents should start by checking ESRB age ratings for video games their child is interested in, Quinn said. "Not everything is designed for young minds," Quinn said.
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has launched a new ad campaign to let parents know that a.) Video game boxes have big black letters on them and b.) Those letters mean something to ...
List of AO-rated video games; a list of games given the "Adults Only 18+" rating by the ESRB; NC-17 – Adults Only; assigned to films by the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system (MPAA) List of NC-17 rated films; a list of films rated NC-17 by the MPAA; 18 rating (many variants), a common "adults only" rating used by ...
The International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) is an initiative aimed at streamlining acquisition of content ratings for video games, from authorities of different countries. Introduced in 2013, the IARC system simplifies the process of obtaining ratings by developers, through the use of questionnaires, which assess the content of the product.
US Senator Hillary Clinton was one of the senators who wrote a letter to ESRB concerning their rating of the game as Mature, asking the ESRB to re-rate the game to AO, where they described it as "visceral and casually sadistic". [45] In light of the BBFC and ESRB decisions, Rockstar decided to censor the game. Censoring took five main forms. [46]