I can’t believe what I dumbo I can be! I try to protect my children- provide them age appropriate toys, limit television to the least violent and frightening things, only go onto safe Internet sites with them and so on. Yet, despite having our XBox for over a year now, with a handful of games, I was totally oblivious to what the PEGI (Pan European Game Information) ratings actually mean.
I thought the PEGI ratings symbolised for which age group upwards the games were suitable in terms of ability. Do you think the same? Well we are WRONG, as I found out through taking a challenge with Askaboutgames.com. To quote from the site:
the PEGI rating on a game confirms that it [the game] contains content suitable for a certain age group and above. …It is not, however, a measure of who will enjoy the game or how difficult that game is.
Not only that, but there are little symbols- content descriptors that tell you why a certain game is given a certain PEGI rating. Totally didn’t look at those before.
So as you can imagine I scored pretty low on the following quiz. Oops! *hangs head in shame*
Try it! See how you do. (…and put me to even more shame.)
Gaming safety for kids Quiz
Question 1 |
4 | |
5 | |
6 |
Question 2 |
The 12, 16 and 18 PEGI age ratings are legally binding for retailers. | |
The 16 and 18 PEGI age ratings are legally binding for retailers. | |
The 18 PEGI age ratings is legally binding for retailers. |
Question 3 |
5 | |
8 | |
10 |
Question 4 |
The game contains spiders | |
The game connects to the internet | |
The game maybe frightening for younger children |
Question 5 |
The game contains violence | |
The force will be with you while playing this game | |
This is a boxing game |
Question 6 |
True | |
False |
Question 7 |
True | |
False |
So how did you do? How much was news to you?
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i got 86% so quite pleased with myself!
I only got 57% my little boy is still very young yet though so I’ve not had to do much checking up on this kind of thing.
93% for me – I was wrong with the amount of PEGI icons there were. I opted for 10.
You have completed 7/7 questions .
Your score is 93%.
In all honestly I should of got 100% I’ve 2 young boys and I always check the content before purchasing games for them. Especially as daddy/mummy have big kids games that we plays when the kids are not in the room. But we have a great range of games, I love all the dancing, zumba & exerciser games.
I scored 86%, then corrected the first one and got 100! xx
57%… not as good as i thought i would do… seems I don’t know as much as i thought
Terrible! I didn’t know the spider or the parental control stuff.
I got 79% – not bad for someone who has no idea about gaming LOL
Not long and your little ones will be engrossed in electronic games too. Comes too quickly!
Horrific!! Surprised just how little I know! Thanks for the lesson : )
86% , didn’t think I was going to do this well
I got 71% – Not the best
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