Mario Party 8 recalled in UK over offensive language

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I know this is ten days old, but only saw it now. BTW the comments are hilarious.

London (England) - In a very unusual circumstance for Nintendo, the company's UK division has recalled all copies of Mario Party 8 because of an offensive word that can be found in the game.

Nintendo of Europe did not say what the exact reason for the recall was, but CVG Online reports it was because the game used the word "spastic". Just a couple weeks ago, Ubisoft had to pull its game from store shelves because of an outrage over its use of the same word.

UK gamers had already seen a number of delays for Mario Party 8 and was finally released on July 13. Nintendo blames the problem on a "wrong version" of the title making its way to retail.

"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," said Nintendo in an official statement.

Nintendo has put an indefinite hold on the game until it fixes this issue.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32910/98/

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This just reminds me of the whole issue around the sound "Lets get retarded" which had to be reworded to "Lets get it started" (by the black eyed peas)

Are people too touchy or are we just an insensitive/overly sensitive generation?

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Definitely OVER sensitive. What ever happened to "sticks and stones my break my bones, but words shall never hurt me"?

[Gen0cyde]

Soccer moms win again.

I see that it says "Nintendo of Europe did not say what the exact reason for the recall was."
So the whole spastic argument might not even be real.

Ah well.

[Repline]

Definitely OVER sensitive. What ever happened to "sticks and stones my break my bones, but words shall never hurt me"?

Dont you mean "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but CHAINS and WHIPS excites me!"

:)

[wisp]

when will the realise that kids do swear


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[MrDeVil_909]

I want to make an intelligent and well considered comment about this, but it isn't worth the effort.

I give up on the human race, let armageddon come, we deserve it.

[Miktar]

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[ShadowMaster]

Here is a great tip:

Never argue with idiots, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

[MrDeVil_909]

True, but there is always that faint, glimmering, futile hope that that you car reach someone and rescue them from complete idiocy.

[Rebbo_Reformed]

http://links.drakenfluegel.org/m/futility.jpg
It seems that Touchyournose was replying to mutilato, so the text there should not be futility.

[Miktar]

Rebbo, don't post useless commentary just to break the 10 post barrier.

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It seems that Touchyournose was replying to mutilato, so the text there should not be futility.

Are you retarded? Of course it's futile. mutilato gave a carefully worded and thought out argument and touchyournose disregarded it completely and gave a response only a troll would give. You don't realize it, because you're a troll yourself.