The ESRB gives it...
For anyone who is curious, the retail version of Sam & Max: Season One was rated by the ESRB:
T
Cartoon Violence
Crude Humor
Mild Language
Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
I found it out in this article:http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=3810
T
Cartoon Violence
Crude Humor
Mild Language
Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
I found it out in this article:http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=3810
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(I thought those jokes were hilarious!)
EDIT: Oh, now I remember. There's the cigarette butts in the ahtrays in episode 3.
i have seen parents buying kids younger than ten GTA games despite the big red 18 on the front of the box (bad parenting). at that age i was playing mario and other apparent children's games
As soon as certain games start being mature in ways other than "OMG BLOOD SWEARZ AND HOOKAZ", I might play something a bit closer to my age.
Highest rated game I've played in ages was Final Fantasy XII (16+) but even then it didn't deserve such a high age rating, and it was rubbish.
As for GTA, I've barely played it myself, don't like it from what I have seen and played, and would DEFINITELY not let my kids (if I ever get lucky) touch it.
Cartoon Violence is funny, especially in the Roadrunner sketches in Looney Tunes!
Poor Wile E. never gets any recognition.
Judging by the example given, they seem to have missed a lot of the language, actually. I mean, I know it's never very bad, but it certainly tops 'ass'.
I've only seen 7 year olds play Halo...
That Vodka is baad. Trrrusteth me! Trrrusteth me!
But wait, where was the tobacco in the game?
Is that close enough?
It was in Episode 3, cigarettes were seen
Maybe it has to do with the main character of Killer Klowns From Outer Space? (Mike Tabacco) :P
I GOT IT!!
The tobacco reference is in Ted E. Bear's casino, in the rubber duck ash trays!!
*Notices that Ooze33 pointed this out a few posts ago*
...dangit.
Whoa!
Well, I suppose it DOES have a significant amount of sex...
I know how strict Australia is though with age ratings though, wasn't Spiderman 2 (the film) rated M / 17+ over there?
Can't remember Spiderman 2's rating - but M is probably right. Harry Potter 5 was also M rated!
but that's not 17+.
Australian film & video games ratings are at www.oflc.gov.au, but in short:
G (General)
PG (Parental Guidance Recommended)
M (Parental Guidanced recommended for those under 15)
MA15+ (Restricted to 15+)
R18+ (Restricted to 18+)
Note also that R18+ rated video games are NOT permitted to be sold, and thus are effectively banned. This is a big hole in the ratings thing, IMO... why can't there be adult only games like there are adult only movies?
Spiderman was rated M (15+) over here. We have two higher ratings MA (15+), e.g. Band of Brothers, CSI, Deadwood, and then there's R (18+), for example the TV series Rome.
MA and R are both age-restricted, i.e. you have to be at least 15 to go see an MA movie. Wtih M-rated material, its just a guide, legally a six year old could go seen an M movie.
Oh, and one interesting point: R-rated video games are banned.
Likely because the stuffed shirts are still convinced that gaming is for children, and game consoles are expensive toys for little Timmy.
Ah, I thought I was a bit off with 17.
I just remembered getting the Spiderman 2 UMD (it was a free offer, I didn't actually pay for it ) and it having age ratings for different regions, with everything being around PG except for Australia's which I could only remember as being around mid-teenish.
That about the age rating Harry Potter film was a bit of a surprise, but the age rating's been creeping up for the series over here too though. What was the age rating for Harry Potter 1, out of interest?
G = G
PG = PG
PG13 = M
R = MA15+
NC17 = R18+
or at least, that's how DVD Profiler interprets things it's mostly the same, but having different ratings/censorship laws in different countries may sometimes mean different cuts (eg no headbutts or ninja stars in UK cuts of movies) and probably doesn't help with simultaneous world wide releases...
Our UK film ratings are: U, PG, 12, 12A, 15 and 18.
After some looking-up I see the Spider-Man movies getting 12, violence (with #2 getting fear as well). Ratings for the Harry Potter movies range from 6 to 12, with Prisoner of Azkaban getting the "unofficial" rating 9. All of them get the fear tag and all except Prisoner of Azkaban get the violence tag. The tv-series Heroes is rated 12, violence, fear.
ours seem so much easier to understand i believe 12 is only for physical releases
and 12a is the cinema equivalent (where you are supposed to be over 12 unless you are with an adult)
EDIT: and for games we also have pegi age restrictions as well as bbfc which are
3+
12+
16+
18+
And 7+. I've never seen the point of that age rating though, I can't see there being anything gamewise I'd put in front of a 7 year old and not a 3 year old.
if so they had
3+
11+
18+
cant remember the other ones though