More and more people are starting to have some sort of video gaming devices to help them ease their daily stress and uninterestedness. It can be a PC, console machine such as Playstation, Xbox or Nintendo or it can be one of those mobile video gaming device such as PSP, NDS, wonderswan or even your own cell phone. Indeed, video games have become so approved that most people like to get one’s hands on some scary games to play for their kids and friends as holiday gifts.
One of the primary factors that parents overlook or do not pay attention when buying video game is the rating. You see, video games are rated by ESRB (The Entertainment Software Ratings Board) and they serve as a to one’s liking standard to the contents of the game. You want to make sure that you get the right game based on the ESRB ratings so that your kids will not get influenced and end up learing the illogical things.
EC (Early Childhood) video games are most expedient for children ages 3 and older. EC games contains no materials that parents would need to worry about. E (Everyone) content are more expedient for kids ages 6 and older. Expect the E games to be a little heartless and contains some comic mischief or crude language used. T games are expedient for persons ages 13 and older. T games may contain heartless content and the use of mild or strong language. M (mature) are only expedient for persons ages 17 and older. These games can be really heartless, strong language and mature erotic themes. AO (Adults only) games are only expedient for adults who are age 18 or above. The nature of AO games are usually extremely heartless and contain a lot of erotic contents.
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正确选取电子游戏的方法
越来越多的人开始用电子游戏来缓解他们的日常压力或者排解无聊。玩电子游戏可以用个人电脑，或者用像PS、Xbox和任天堂那样的电视游戏机。或者你也可以用像PSP、NDS、神奇天鹅甚至你自己的手机这类移动电子游戏设施来玩游戏。电子游戏确实是很流行，因此很多人都愿意把电子游戏当作假日礼物来送给孩子和朋友。
当家长为孩子买游戏的时候，他们也许会忽视一点，那就是游戏也是分年龄等级的。ESBS(娱乐软件分级委员会）根据电子游戏的内容为其划分级。为了确保孩子不会接受一些游戏的不良影响，家长应该确保按照ESBS的分级标准来选购合适孩子的游戏。
等级分有：EC(适用于儿童早期）——适合3岁及其以上的幼年孩童，这类游戏内容健康，家长可以放心购买。
E(适用于任何年龄段）——适合6岁及其以上的孩童，游戏包含一些轻微的暴力、些许幽默的讥讽和少量粗鲁的语言
T——适合13岁及其以上的青少年，游戏内容有点暴力血腥，运用了些许粗鲁语言。
M( 适用于成年）——适合17岁及其以上的成人，游戏内容非常暴力血腥，运用大量粗鲁语言，并有成人色情内容
AO(只适用于成人）——适合18岁及其以上的成人，游戏内容极其暴力血腥和色情