Comparing Video Game Age Rating Logo Colours From Around the World
Of the countries that use colours in their video game age rating logos, most use a general stoplight pattern of green for everyone, yellow and orange for older children/teens, and red for adults.
These are the countries/regions that follow that pattern perfectly:
Europe
Iran
Mexico
New Zealand
Saudi Arabia
Many countries also add blue, which near universally comes right after green, and then follows the yellow then red
China
Indonesia
South Korea
Taiwan
Brazil and Russia follow this pattern but add black for 18
Brazil
Russia (also throws white for 0 at the front, just like Germany below)
Finally, we have the countries that do not follow the stoplight order
Germany keeps the blue after green and ending with red pattern, but begins with white and yellow
Australia is the only one to not immediately follow green with blue, and instead places yellow in between. It does keep the red and black pattern for the last two age ratings
And finally, the UAE somewhat confusingly goes from light yellow to green to dark yellow, and then follows the orange, red pattern. Also it has the highest number of any age board with a 21(The rest cap out at 18)
All information and images sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system. I hope you found this as interesting as I did!
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