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Article: Parents warned to oversee their children's video games

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June 27, 2006
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Parents, do you know your Doom from your Super Mario? How about your Halo2 from your Legend of Zelda?

Much like movies, video games carry suggested ratings, assigned by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, which act as a guideline for parents.

On Monday, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Patricia Vance, the rating board's president, announced new public-service announcements for television and radio, featuring Shurtleff battling it out on a video-game system with his children. The ads are intended to educate parents about the game ratings and how to use them.

Shurtleff admitted that he has been known to pick up a game controller once in a while. "I like video games," Shurtleff ...

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