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.
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Re: Pennsylvania Attorney General Urges Parents to Check Game
HI,
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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bhuvana
pennsylvania drug rehab
Did some dimensional rift tear open into a world where politicians are intelligent and can see and correct their own mistakes?
no, some aliens kidnapped us all and put us on bizarro world. ;-)
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
Random Tower: Game News and Commentary
I'm sure the blame game will continue, they will just blame other things...
shush you!!! i told you not to ruin my world!!!!!!
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...
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.
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.
Where is it? I want to move there. j/k.
I do believe it's Hershey, Pennsylvania. :P
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.
....Which can be said just as equally of our state's irrational and shortsighted choices as well, but at least we stay in character.