The video game industry has grown gradually, and a turning point occurred in the era when we saw consoles like SNES and SEGA Genesis, with titles that took liberties to integrate adult elements, but Mortal Kombat and their bloody scenes were enough for the senator Joe Lieberman pay attention to the environment, trying to eliminate their violence. In fact, it is thanks to him that the company was founded ESRBwhich is responsible for classifying everything that reaches the USA.
That brings us to the recent news, given that the death of this government figure has been reported, this due to a complication with a supposed fall, he was 82 years old when this happened. For those who don't have him on the radar as much, he caused a sensation in the early '90s for his criticism of violence and sexuality in games and what he considered the industry's failure to adequately protect children from them. , alleging that playing, mentioning that this type of entertainment could make them violent.
Nintendo was more selective with third-party games released on its systems at the time, controlled most of the market, and SEGA began trying to influence developers and publishers with looser content restrictions. Although Mortal Kombat also came to SNESwas heavily censored with blood being replaced with “sweat” and many of the deaths in the game made less violent to comply with the company's more family-friendly image.
Lieberman put enough pressure on the video game industry to police itself more effectively and implement a better rating system. This led us to the formation of Entertainment Software Ratings Board, or ESRB, which is responsible for age ratings. Some time later he would retire from his position in the government, but while that was happening he continued to make attempts to definitively eliminate some franchises that have been considered only of legal age.
Via: Kotaku
Editor's note: This discussion on the issue of classifications is still present today, so attempts to restrict certain video games will not wait long. Still, his stuff was important in the middle, since that's why we have the logo on the bottom left of the boxes.
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