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Wii News by Games Industry.biz

16 July, 2007

Nintendo has recalled all copies of Mario Party 8 in the UK due to it containing an offensive word, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

The title was released for the Nintendo Wii on Friday and has seen heavy promotion over the weekend with TV advertisements.

"Unfortunately we have discovered that a small number of games contain the wrong version of the disk due to an assembly error," reads a statement from the company.

"We have therefore decided to recall all copies of the game from UK retailers so that this mistake can be corrected."

Last month, Ubisoft was forced to pull all copies of DS game Mind Quiz in Europe after it was found to contain offensive comments.

Nintendo said it will announce a new release date for Mario Party 8 shortly.

There's plenty more of that over on GamesIndustry.biz.

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sickpuppysoftware
16/07/07 @ 11:49
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Who said Nintendo only made kiddie games?

It's a me, motherfucking Mario
playgen
16/07/07 @ 11:50
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The offensive word is spastic
Mercatoria
16/07/07 @ 11:52
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I've got t his game, haven't seen the "offending" word yet. Anyway the game is rubbish.
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lambtron
16/07/07 @ 11:53
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"It's a me, motherfucking Mario"

lol.
TheSnotGoblin
16/07/07 @ 11:54
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Are they all using the same localisation company I wonder? Both games featuring the exact same mistranslation.
Darren
16/07/07 @ 11:54
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From what I've read, the whole game is offensive! LOL
Beano
16/07/07 @ 11:57
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OMG... Hot Coffee found in a Mario game !!!

"Peach: Mario, please stomp my back-pipe"

;)
Nova5lag
16/07/07 @ 11:57
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You think Mario would go off the rails a bit from time to time... Heya Peach you always get fkin captured... I have to save you from those guys every week! Its getting fkin rediculous! Cant you just be more fkin carful??? I mean honestly! Im sick of this sh1t... I just wanna play some tennis! BUT NOOOO Mario please help me! AGAIN! Fk this mushroom induced mentalist paradise!

Screw you guys.... Im going home.
captainrentboy
16/07/07 @ 11:58
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This is slightly more annoying when you work in Game, you make up over 100 dummy boxes to stick on various marketing ends only for motherfudging headoffice to e'mail you an hour later, ''Take 'em all off again!''
Grrrrr.
ProtoformX
16/07/07 @ 12:00
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"Peach: Mario, please stomp my back-pipe"

LOL @ Beano :-D
Steroyd
16/07/07 @ 12:04
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OMG... Hot Coffee found in a Mario game !!!

"Peach: Mario, please stomp my back-pipe"

;)

Opportunity for a 1up joke missed. :)
mingster
16/07/07 @ 12:05
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what was the word?
this might actually have made the game more enjoyable if it had loadsa swearing in it..
more swearing in kids games ftw..
Der_tolle_Emil
16/07/07 @ 12:05
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c'mon, who's next to try and fail to amuse with some kind of "sweary mario" skit?

Someone in the forum posted something like this: "Appearently they refer to Bowser as a 'fucking cunt'". Don't know the exact wording or who posted it, but it made me laugh.

And yes, the word is spastic. I just wonder if they pulled the game just in the UK or generally in Europe. In German speaking countries this game has already been out for 2 weeks now (or even three, I don't know) and it features English as a language as well of course.
WJF
16/07/07 @ 12:07
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Woah....Deja Vu
dr_faulk
16/07/07 @ 12:07
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"Kiss my this, touch my that."

"My penis is so-and-so."
tonynibbles
16/07/07 @ 12:10
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rofl

I love the way they said "it's the wrong version".

So the spastic edition is available later eh?

MARNEURGHO PARTY!

/schoolboy
Garulon
16/07/07 @ 12:11
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"The offensive word is spastic"

Wheras the correct term these days is "Nintendo fan"

Mario always disturbed me anyway; he's a horrific racial sterotype dressed up like a retarded-looking John Holmes, complete with porn moustache.
Beano
16/07/07 @ 12:12
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It's actually Ron Jeremy ;)

http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalik...
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aldo_14
16/07/07 @ 12:15
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"My-a magic mush-a-rooms' the good shit, capiche?"
mossychops001
16/07/07 @ 12:22
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The Jerking off Mario with the Wii Controler will also be taken out.

"Up and down as fast as you can Kids"

AlcohollicA
16/07/07 @ 12:22
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penhalion
16/07/07 @ 12:26
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How about fixing the gameplay while they are at it!

This game plays like no mario party I know. A totally frustrating experience!
Nova5lag
16/07/07 @ 12:26
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MMUK... miss-read your post as Mario Scat... now I wish Id written about that too. :P
Wayne
16/07/07 @ 12:27
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I'M IN YOUR PARTY CALLING YOU A SPASTIC!!!
jonsaan
16/07/07 @ 13:14
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Not only has the Wii got feck all games, now they are taking back the one's it has got.
aine
16/07/07 @ 13:19
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sanctusmortis
16/07/07 @ 13:21
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The ironic thing is it's used in the proper manner, and as such shouldn't offend anyone. Spastic means "uncontrollable shaking", as in a spastic fit of epilepsy or Parkinsons.

Fucking PC brigade.
chrisjm
16/07/07 @ 13:37
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I picked it up in Tesco's saturday, it was supposedly recalled last week (EG must of been busy at E3 or something). They had quite a few on the shelf.
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Garulon
16/07/07 @ 13:45
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It's a shame they couldn't recall MP8 on the grounds of it's catastrophic shiteness, isn't it?
Hughes.
16/07/07 @ 14:11
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It's a bloody cheek, the console encourages you to wave your arms around uncontrollably and then calls you a spastic for your efforts.

I predict Witch Touching will come with onscreen messages telling you you're a fucking nonce.

Although, to be fair, people who buy Witch Touching probably are.
redneon
16/07/07 @ 14:11
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I have it on good authority that it's Mario asking Peach, "For 100 coins can I get 1up?".

Badum-tish!
Darren
16/07/07 @ 14:28
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LOL @ redneon!
Lebowski
16/07/07 @ 16:06
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Mario giving Peach a "1up"? Nah, she's not his type.

Mario is a single middle-aged man, who has a moustache and wears dungarees.

And in the VC version of Paper Mario, if you press up, left, left, left. left, up, left on the pad, whilst in the menu screen, you change the in-game music to Scissor Sisters.
Redeye
16/07/07 @ 16:25
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Go on, Ninty - replace it with 'mong'. You know you want to.
Weezer
16/07/07 @ 17:41
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I got my uncensored copy which I expect to sell on Ebay for dozens of ££!!

Possibly.
konniehuqfan
16/07/07 @ 18:03
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why the sudden renaissance of the word spastic?
warthog2k
16/07/07 @ 18:05
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Spastic AGAIN?

Didn't one of those Brain Aging games get pulled for the same word?
Ah! Mind Age: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?art...
(Much funnier comments thread too!)

Nintendo trying to look cool by swearing again?

Perhaps they could get DEVO to do the soundtrack for Mario Party 9?
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/devo/mongol...
smelly
16/07/07 @ 20:17
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>Spastic AGAIN?

The word in question was "spaz" which has a totally different meaning in US/canada - no more worse than saying "idiot".

And yes it was in both games.
captain-future
16/07/07 @ 23:18
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Question from a non-native speaker... what's wrong/offensive with spastic?
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17/07/07 @ 00:10
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@captain-future: some years back it was the term used to describe mentally handicapped people. It wound through the playground in ever-decreasing circles where the term is now utterly derogatory and shouldn't be used by anyone, ever. Ever.
chrisjm
17/07/07 @ 10:26
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its such an offensive word that a UK charity was called it for many many years. lol. its just the usual PC brigade going nuts.
Daikon
17/07/07 @ 14:33
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Nintendo recalls a game because the word "spastic" has different connotations in the UK than it has in US but still has no problem keeping the name "Wii" for the UK market?

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