Age Ratings Notes

This is a mixture on local and third-party pages related to physical media
It is interesting on how they work, why they exist and what is available world wide
In online discourse, the American age rating systems are often talked about over local age ratings.

Video Game Age ratings

Move & TV Age Ratings

I keept movies and TV in the same section due to a lot of over lap, even though they often are rated by different boards.
The American systems often overrides other countries systems such as that is shown on physical media (in video) where other systems are usually just on the box art and enforced from stores

Merged Age Rating Boards

These are for where a board covers both Movies/TV and Video Games. This mainly applies to Australia as a big example:

Music/Audio Ratings

Music ratings generally does not have advance age rating guidelines, at least in the US. Manly just focuses on if there are known swear words and then given a label. Does not look deeply into the meaning of the song beyond clear swear words referencing something explicit. Or has specific different ages/severity.

History behind Age Ratings

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