What is an age rating? What are the difference video game age rating systems in use regionally nationally and internationally? When did they come into use and what caused this?
At some point in the time line of video games it was deemed that games need an a rating system, what games or events in the real world caused action to be taken?
Examples of where age ratings are not taken seriously:
My experience of working in GAME in 2011. If I knew that an game was being bought for a for someone underage I was legally obliged to tell the parent what was in the game, not refuse a sale. One customer got very angry when I didn't accept the money from her child instead of her, as it would have been illegal, even after I explained to her what was in the game she was unfazed that she was buying her 7 year old son an 18 rates game. Some parents however when I told them were shocked that they didn't realise what the game involved. These children rely on their parents naivety of what content is actually in games.
If your parents were naive or laid back then at some point you must have persuaded them to buy you game you were not old enough to buy or play
Examples of 5 year olds playing GTA, their parents think it was a driving game, when the are lots of sexual references.
Night trap had US senate hearing about its controversy of utilising full motion videos of college girls in what can been as compromising positions this game caused American age rating system to be implemented. However this gave developers full rein to develop games targeted at adults for example - carmageddon, and games with strong sexual content and borderline pornographic games. Fahrenheit - in America the game had the sex scenes taken out but people still chose import the uncut European versions.
More education is needed for parents about games, but do games affect children negatively if they play under age? Does it depend on them game? Do games rated high affect people mentally? School shooter Adam Lanza- was he influenced by violent games or were video games used as a scapegoat?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversies
http://kotaku.com/sandy-hook-killers-video-gaming-obsession-not-what-yo-1471421158
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/365190/Killer-Adam-Lanza-obsessed-with-violent-video-games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_%282005_video_game%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AO-rated_video_games
ttp://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/09/should-gaming-age-ratings-be-enforced/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2013/03/26/ftc-video-game-age-ratings/2020719/
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/faq.jsp
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/08/15/poll-should-video-game-ratings-be-legally-enforced-retail#.UptKyOLd5pM
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/UK-PEGI-Video-Game-Ratings-Law,16586.html
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/287
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