ESRB Turns Fifteen Today
source: http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/showthread.php?t=200923
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Today the Entertainment Software Ratings Board turns fifteen. Take a look back at the fifteen years of ESRB history with Wired.com:
1994: A coalition of game publishers presents Congress with its proposal for the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, a voluntary industry-wide standard for age ratings on videogames.
A joint congressional hearing in December 1993 took up the growing concern that the game industry was irresponsibly marketing violent videogames to minors. Spearheaded by Sens. Joe Lieberman (then D-Connecticut, now an independent) and Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), the hearings were largely a response to the popularity of the fighting game Mortal Kombat. The game’s use of digitally captured actors and bloody, violent “fatality” moves caused a stir when it was released in arcades in 1992, and home versions of the game appeared on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis 16-bit game machines in September 1993. http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/showthread.php?t=200923
1994: A coalition of game publishers presents Congress with its proposal for the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, a voluntary industry-wide standard for age ratings on videogames.
A joint congressional hearing in December 1993 took up the growing concern that the game industry was irresponsibly marketing violent videogames to minors. Spearheaded by Sens. Joe Lieberman (then D-Connecticut, now an independent) and Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), the hearings were largely a response to the popularity of the fighting game Mortal Kombat. The game’s use of digitally captured actors and bloody, violent “fatality” moves caused a stir when it was released in arcades in 1992, and home versions of the game appeared on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis 16-bit game machines in September 1993. http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/showthread.php?t=200923
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