Ratings
Culture concept
Most ratings provide a guideline on the included content and suitability for children or other young people. In some instances these are based on what the laws say such people are allowed to participate in or view but in some cases also what the local culture says is appropriate (when there's no actual legal restrictions on it). An obvious case would be the fairly common no porn for minors distinction, where such content is categorized as adult, mature, 16+, 18+, or such.
This is a container group; its children are:
| Australian Classification Board | The Australian Classification Board is a statutory (mandatory) classification body formed by the Australian Government which classifies films, video games and publications for exhibition. Formerly OFLC. | container group | |
| Asociación Española de Distribuidores y Editores de Software | Content rating system in Spain. (too short) | container group | |
| British Board of Film Classification | A british non-governmental organisation responsible for the national classification of films within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and some video games under the Video Recordings Act 2010. | container group | |
| Computer Entertainment Rating Organization | A Japanese non-profit video game rating organization established in 2002-07. (too short) | container group | |
| Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association | Former European computer and video game rating system, replaced by the PEGI ratings in 2003. (too short) | container group | |
| Ethics Organization of Computer Software | One of the content rating boards in Japan. (too short) | 2008 / 2010 | container group 2 games |
| Entertainment Software Rating Association | Video game content rating system used in Iran. Unrated games are considered illegal and thus not sold there. | container group | |
| Entertainment Software Rating Board | A content rating system that is mandated by the ESRB member companies in US & Canada to get games licensed on console platforms or sold at select retailers | container group | |
| Game Rating Board | A South Korean government run video game content rating board, split off from the more generic Media Rating Board in 2006. Publicly available games must have GRB's rating clearly visible/available to be legal. | container group | |
| Game Software Rating Regulations | Video game content rating system used in Taiwan since July 2006. (too short) | container group | |
| Pan European Game Information | A self-regulatory European [i]content[/i] rating system developed by ISFE so [i]parents[/i] can make somewhat informed purchases. Established in 2003-04. | container group | |
| Recreational Software Advisory Council | A content rating organization in USA established in response to existing controversy and possible government enforced regulation. Replaced by ESRB later on. | container group | |
| Syndicat des Editeurs de Logiciels de Loisirs | A content rating system from June 1998 to the arrival of PEGI in 2003, the organisation rated the content of video games in France. | container group | |
| Sega Rating | In-house game content rating system for Japanese games used by Sega from 1994 to 2000. Later supplanted by CERO. | container group | |
| The Independent Game Rating System | An independent and self-applied game rating system that has 3 age ratings with several variable (and optional) content descriptors. | container group | |
| Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle | A German game rating organization. (too short) | container group | |
| Videogame Rating Council | Introduced by Sega of America in 1993 to rate videogames released in the USA on Genesis, Sega-CD, Game Gear and some computer games. Later supplanted by ESRB. | container group |