Topic: ESRB Game Ratings, M rated games and the Revolution Download service...

[darknight06]

I recall the original MK for the Genesis being rated MA-13.  I'm not sure if that was actually the ESRB's doing or not though.  

[BlkPaladin]

Acually they may fall under a grandfather clause since they were made before the ESRB was founded. They may offer it but it would be like older movies they may of recieved a R rating or worse but since they were made before the government rating came into effect, they don't need to be rated to be showen today on television or in rerelease. The individual publishers might want to get them rated. But unless the ESRB or Nintendo says differently (since the ESRB is industry regulated instead of government regulated) they don't nessarily need to be rated legally.

[animecyberrat]

That was Segas own Ratings system, they had that long before there was an ESRB and Nintendo was against the rawtings system at first until they deided to push for industry standard. Segas ratings were GA (E) MA-13 (T) MA-17 (M) and I think they also used KA for Kids to Adults like ESRB did initially but I cant remember exactly. There was no such thing as AO at that time I think that Playstation was first system to get games rated AO or maybe 3do cant remeebr for sure.

Also what if Sega does agree to release thier old games as well, will they keep their old ratings, or just take the old rating and apply it to ESRB, like GA games which was Segas term for E will they change to E by default or will they keep thier old rating and have their own description?

and what about Wolfenstien 3-D, it was edited or censored what ever term you prefer, by Nintendo, will it be released as SNES roms or will they uncensor it and rerate it I wonder, thoughst anyone?

Sorry for um getting off on the MK stuff like that but Mortal Kombat is and will always be my favorite video game series so I defend it to the death. I was always disapointed with ALL 3 console versiosn of the first game anyways so I wont downlaod it for SNES since I have it for SNES and Genesis anyways, but if they have the original Arcade roms for Download, I will snatch that in a heartbeat. Like that Plug N plAy thing that Midway made, I bought taht toto but there were subtle changes form arcade version I just couldnt justify and sold it. I am picky when it comes to Mortal Kombat.

[KDR_11k]

Blk: What government rating? There is no government rating though the MPAA does seem to have quite a chunk of the government on its bribe payroll. Rating is and has always been voluntary in the US, if Nintendo wanted they could release all games unrated on the Rev.

[BlkPaladin]

I wasn't too sure about the movie rating system. It was mandated(for the most part) by the government* but it is run by the industry. (There was a big out cry about it during the mid-80's because the government wanted the industry to tighten up the ratings.

*The rating system did start out industry regulated much like the ESRB but the goverment stuck it nose in things and forced some "rules", we did get the PG-13 rating out of it. Before that the rating were decided by the movie's producers and the rating were G, PG, R, X, XXX. Now its G, PG-13, R, NC-17. So what happened was that the old R became PG-13. X which was assigned to violent movies/nudity was changed to R. XXX which was assigned to ultra violent movies, or porn, was re-assigned with the NC-17 which really isn't used by the "industry".