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When it comes to music or movies or television there's a tendency to lionize the good old days. The classics. To remember older works or art with fondness or even rose-tinted glasses. Video gaming, as an art form intimately connected with cutting-edge technology, is slightly different. Often we forget the games that come before, or replace them with something shiny and new.

The following is a list of video games that have been given the "Adults Only" AO rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB , a United States -based organization which rates the content of video games to determine its appropriateness for specific age groups. Although it is not legally binding under U. Games with the AO rating are considered by the board to be suitable for players age 18 and over; AO-rated games can contain higher levels of violent, profane, sexual, or pornographic content than the next-lowest rating on the scale Mature [M], generally considered suitable for players 17 and over can accommodate. AO is the highest of the ESRB's content ratings, and restricts the commercial availability of games which carry it; all three major video game console manufacturers Nintendo , Microsoft , and Sony Interactive Entertainment refuse to allow AO-rated games to be published for their platforms, most retailers refuse to stock AO-rated games, and the popular video game live streaming service Twitch explicitly bans all games carrying the rating. Rockstar Games ' Manhunt 2 was the second game given an AO rating for extremely violent content and the first to be released, but was re-edited to meet the M rating so it could be released on consoles an uncut, AO-rated version for Windows was released in The only game to receive the rating for reasons unrelated to violence or sexual content is Peak Entertainment Casinos [10] , which received the rating as it allows the player to gamble using real money. Fellow Rockstar game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was temporarily re-rated to AO from M in response to the release of a mod known as " Hot Coffee ", which allowed players to access a sexually-explicit minigame that was removed in development, but still present within the game's code in an incomplete state.

Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. Steam has always allowed some types of sexual content. Valve was recently threatening to remove games that it considered pornographic.

ESRB independently applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles adopted by the industry. The ESRB has a website at esrb. Titles rated EC Early Childhood have content that may be suitable for persons ages 3 and older. Contains no material that parents would find inappropriate. Titles rated E Everyone have content that may be suitable for persons ages 6 and older.