E-rated snes games

I was playing My donkey kong 2 on the snes this morning and noticed it was rated E instead of KA is there any rarity to this cartridge

 

Was it a Player's Choice edition (wonders if it was even placed on this game)?

 

Yeah

that is on the cartridge

 

Probablyl PC edition. On 1995, ESRB changed the lettering of hte ratings. Well 1995 is when i started to notice the E rating on games.

 

is it harder to find than the other version

 

The original KA one? I doubt it since they were on the first batch of the games before, IIRC, a million copies were sold in the US. They are similar to Greatest Hits of PSX & Dreamcast games.

I can see a few of the DKC 2's on eBay, and I have a copy myself...

 

I didnt saw the E rating until 1997-98.

All my copies of 32X and Saturn games from 1995-96 have the KA badge on them.

 

The E rating is an ESRB rating.
The K-A rating is a VRC rating.

The VRC ratings were dropped in favor of consolidating the industry on the ESRB ratings as the ESA has a pretty powerful voice in the industry.

-hl718

 

The VRC rating equivalent to E was GA "general audience".

The KA was already ESRB...

 

Doh. You might be correct. Hard to keep it all straight sometimes.

-hl718

 

Yeh, K-A rating was ESRB, says so on the box.

 

KA was indeed an esrb raiting. Orignaly it was use to say this game was ok for all audiences. Then there was E raiting at the same time, but it had pretty much the same raiting as K-A, except it was suppose to mean apropriate for infants too. Since it was redundat having 2 raitings that were barely any different, the esrb dropped K-A in favor for E.

 

I heard they dropped the KA because the "adult" in the badge made people think it could contain adult themes