Pennsylvania Attorney General Urges Parents to Check Game Ratings

Pennsylvania Attorney General Urges Parents to Check Game Ratings

December 15, 2007
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett (R) has joined the chorus of elected officials urging consumers to check video game content ratings during the holiday shopping season.

Corbett is quoted on his website:
The holiday season is one of the busiest times of year for game sales, with almost half of all video games sold at this time of year. It is important for adults to carefully review game rating information when considering items for young children.

Do some research about toys and games now, before you make a purchase, and read all material carefully before you hand things over to your kids. Some careful thought and planning now, considering both toy safety and game ratings, can help eliminate a variety of problems during the holiday season and long afterwards.

While Corbett does not appear to be participating in an ESRB-backed public service campaign like some of his colleagues around the United States, it's not the first time he has spoken favorably of the ESRB's content rating system.

Comments

gah my fellow americans the end of the blame game is here ( please dont correct me i enjoy my world)
Well, at least he's urging parents to make the decisions, so that's a plus in my book :)
I see things starting to look up, somewhat.
Tom Corbett is always a good example of a fine state attorney general. To see him stick up for the game industry does not surprise me at all. Consumer Rights is usually his forte.
What's happening!?!?

Did some dimensional rift tear open into a world where politicians are intelligent and can see and correct their own mistakes?
yes! common sense is making a come back!
yay for common sense!
@kurisu7885

no, some aliens kidnapped us all and put us on bizarro world. ;-)
bizarro world is fine by me if this is what it's like
I am glad to see a turn in the politician/game trend. I hope this direction keeps up.
I'm with neoelasticman on this one. Biozarro world rules.
@ cullarn

I'm sure the blame game will continue, they will just blame other things...
and there still will be people who blame video games on everything, I'm surprised Al Gore hasn't blamed video games on global warming yet.
These people are starting to sound like broken records-- but in a good way, for a change!
Competent attorneys warning parents about M rated games?! I guess these guys don't want to end up like Wacko Jacko.
@sidewinder

shush you!!! i told you not to ruin my world!!!!!!
two down, 48 to go... sorry jack. ..... NOT! :P
Always nice to hear some positive news coming from my state.
Notice how every idiot politician has to point his finger?
How to be an idiot politican:
Step one: Find a media that looks like it should only be for kids and rant about it if it becomes violent to gain the soccer mom vote.
Step two: If there ARE adults that like the media, just rant about how childish they are and how they have no life, even if they do have a life.
Step 3: Keep bitching about the violent media until lovers of that certain media come and lynch you, then you will be a martyr of your beliefs.
Step 4: After your death, the media you ranted about will be either banned or is forced to be for children because the lovers of that media were violent rabid beasts and were made that way.
End of Chapter 1...
uhm..did America just get..better? In my home state no less? Im shocked!
Almost makes me wish I lived in Pennsylvania. [No offense to those who do, I just don't know anything else about the state, so I wouldn't want to just up and move. :)]
@ Catch 33

We have a city that forever smells of chocolate. I don't know if that does anything for you.

But in general nice to see my home state isn't acting like a total screw up on this issue.
Maybe they should just hook up their bandwagons or form a conga line or some-such.

Why yes AG there IS a reason the ESRB exists and puts those funny letters on the boxes of games.

Might be to late but this could almost bring back common sense.
@GD86

Where is it? I want to move there. j/k.
@monkeypeaches:

I do believe it's Hershey, Pennsylvania. :P
Finally! Now this what should have happened since the introduction of the ESRB. If that happened we would not have careless parents buying their kids just about anything, and we would not have as many crazy people running around.
doth my eyes deceive me or is the government doing something about parents not reading ESRB rating, nah i gotta be dreaming, or am i?
Yes, parents please look at the Esrb labels when you buy your kids games so that you don't go into a gamestop and blindly pick up a game called Manhunt and then act surprised and shocked when you find out the game is about a man killing other men.
This is definitely good, a nice step forward for our right to play. I was kinda surprised to see this on here after I just saw a segment on the news about someone also endorsing the esrb rating (can't remember who), but then he gets into claiming research that proves video games turn people violent and blah blah blah.
I live in PA by the way
Not to bring the mood down here, but I doubt this is going to help. If parents can't even look down and see the giant letter on the box, I highly doubt they'll pay attention to a government official. Can anyone here tell me the attorney general of their own state (other than Pennsylvanians)?
Well, since you ask:

The attorney general of Delaware is John Biden, III (son of the Democratic presidential candidate).

But I'm cheating because I work for the Delaware courts.
Eep. JOE Biden, III. Well, that's what I get for being too hasty in writing comments.
It's not a rift in realty--just Pennsylvania for you. Yeah, we're conservative in some really weird ways--and, well, weird's really about the best descriptor of our populace--but out of that oddness sometimes springs some rational thought and reasoned aproaches that seem to have no place in our nation today.

....Which can be said just as equally of our state's irrational and shortsighted choices as well, but at least we stay in character.
By George, I think he's got it! Finally, a politician who isn't bashing games. That's a refresher.
[...] Note: To be fair, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah, Iowa, Rhode Island, Idaho, and South Carolina,  have all shown some support for the current ESRB standard and “urge parents to be responsible and check game ratings”. It’s good to know there are some sane states left. [...]
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 Its really very nice to hear that the Atorny general of pennsylvania took effort to make the parents aware of the gaming rates.He asked to check the quality and the safety of the product.

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