Remember the Superman
game on the Atari 2600? That slightly obtuse piece of superhero wish
fulfillment is part of a chain of careers and events that resulted in the formation
of the ESRB. What does the big, red S have to do with the folks who put the
letters E, T and M on video game boxes? Watch and see.
Scott Bromley of Rev3 Games takes a trip back to the heyday
of coin-op machines to trace how Supermanâs way-old pinball and video games birthed
the careers of the people whose games wound up scaring politicians and pundits
so much. Those same folks eventually agitated behind the idea of labeling video
gamesâ content and the big, black letters weâre familiar with today became a
reality.
Just think of it like the Superboy-Prime punch in Infinite
Crisis, only with more congressional hearings.
