The Entertainment Software Rating Board or ESRB are an organization that rate many video games in the United States of America. An ESRB rating is a rating for the game to give a legal age limit for people buying the game, and a recommendation for people buying the game for someone else.
Ratings used by ESRB.
The symbols the ESRB uses are stylized depictions of alphabetical letters meant to convey at a glance a game's suitability. ESRB uses 7 different ratings. They are:
- EC (Early Childhood)
- E (Everyone)
- E10+ (Everyone 10+)
- T (Teen)
- M (Mature)
- AO (Adults Only)
- RP (Rating Pending) Note: This symbol only appears on a video game for advertisement purposes prior to a game's release.
- KA (Kids to Adults)
See also
- OFLC, the Australian media rating system
- ELSPA, the former British computer and video game rating system, replaced by the PEGI ratings.
- PEGI, the European computer and video game rating system