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The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the content rating board for games released in North America, has issued an "Adults Only" (AO) rating for 24 released video games. AO is the highest rating in the ESRB system, and indicates that the organization believes that the game's content is suitable only for players aged 18 years and over.
AO-rated games cannot be published for major video game console platforms, and most retailers do not stock AO-rated games. ESRB President Patricia Vance argued that applying self-censorship to ensure marketability was a compromise that is "true in every entertainment medium", but still believed that the idea of the AO rating eventually becoming ...
List of AO-rated video games; a list of games given the "Adults Only 18+" rating by the ESRB; NC-17 – Adults Only; assigned to films by the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system (MPAA) List of NC-17 rated films; a list of films rated NC-17 by the MPAA; 18 rating (many variants), a common "adults only" rating used by ...
Pages in category "Lists of video games by reception or rating" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... List of AO-rated video games; B.
The AO rating is the only rating that is legally restricted (except in the United States). The ESRB Retail Council “Ratings Education and Enforcement Code” requires that AO-rated games are not supplied to minors, and that M-rated games are not supplied to customers under the age of 17 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. [6] EC
No major retailers are willing to sell AO-rated games, although the immensely popular PlayStation 2 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was briefly rated AO after the presence of the Hot Coffee add-on became evident. The add-on was later removed, with the game's rating returning to M. [42]
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