TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Video Game Makers Will Use Movie-Type Ratings: The U.S. video game industry has tentatively decided that an anonymous panel of parents, psychologists and educators will rate computer games according to the violence and sex they contain, industry executives said. The panel would be appointed by a trade association that the $6-billion-a-year industry plans to set up. During the pre-Christmas rush of game releases, it would have perhaps 25 members. The ratings system resembles very closely one that the Motion Picture Assn. of America has used to categorize films for 25 years.
