MARIO PARTY 8 PULLED FROM SHELVES FOR OFFENSIVE CONTENT. SERIOUSLY.
(Posted 2007-07-16 18:55:02 by basscomm)

A scant few weeks after _Mindquiz_ was pulled from shelves [
http://crummysocks.com/node/388 ] for using the word 'spastic', a word that
could be offensive to those with motor dysfunction, _Mario Party 8_ is
being pulled from UK shelves for containing the same word:
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In an announcement on its website Nintendo states, “Unfortunately we have
discovered that a small number of games contain the wrong version of the
disk due to an assembly error. We have therefore decided to recall all
copies of the game from UK retailers so that this mistake can be
corrected.”

What it does not state, however, is that the “wrong version” contains the
words, "Magikoopa magic! Turn the train spastic! Make this ticket tragic!”
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I have played the level in question, and am familiar with the event, but
don't really remember the quote. More perplexing to me is that when you
encounter Bowser in the front of the train, he makes a poop joke "It's no
fun being number two. Number two stinks!" (quoted from memory, actual quote
may differ).

Link! [ http://news.spong.com/article/13192 ] (SPOnG)

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