Video Game Ratings get serious

A California congressman wants to make it a federal crime to rent or sell video games showing violence, prostitution and drug use to anyone under the age of 17 without parental consent.

Co-signed by 21 members of the House of Representatives, it covers eight kinds of explicit in-game depictions, including scenes of:

- decapitation and dismemberment,
- murder,
- car jackings,
- illegal drug use,
- rape,
- prostitution,
- assault and other violent crimes.

...uhmm, so that basically leaves me with Mario Karts or Britney's Dance Beat.