Nintendo Apologizes For Racial Slur in Animal Crossing Press Carts Nintendo says offending word was inserted accidentally via wireless catchphrase function. By Philip Kollar, 12/03/2008 On Wednesday afternoon both MTV Multiplayer and Kotaku posted stories detailing how they had received copies of Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS from Nintendo. Because these carts were meant to show off the character importing feature of Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii, the DS carts were already opened and had saved games featuring a ton of money and bonuses. Both Multiplayer and Kotaku discovered one unexpected twist, though: a strong racial slur repeated during conversations with in-game character Baabara. We contacted Nintendo regarding these reports and received the following official response: "Previously played copies of the 2005 DS game Animal Crossing: Wild World were sent to 14 members of the media to demonstrate the ability of players to transfer items to the new Animal Crossing: City Folk for Wii. We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge via a wireless function that allows user-generated catchphrases to spread virally from one game to the next. This version is limited to 14 copies created for media review purposes only and is not available at retailers. We sincerely apologize for the incident and are working with media who received the game cards to return them to Nintendo immediately." This is a surprising slip-up from the family-friendly company with what is perhaps their most family-friendly game, but at least they admitted to their mistake immediately. 1UP also received a copy of the DS cartridge and has been requested to return it, as stated in their response. Source
Accidentally? How does that word accidently slip into a family videogame? Or any videogame at all without being noticed? Oh yeah, I almost forgot: "a strong racial slur repeated during conversations with in-game character Baabara." So it didn't just slip in, they had to repeat it? ...
wow to tell you the truth i was not expecting that well good thing its not like the hot coffe mod or something but it didnt say which phrase was said? i would love to know it problably wasant that bad nothing like **** off nigga
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. I thought when you walk up to the character in the game, he just started saying all that stuff. My bad.
Let me verify. It was user created content that somehow got to game cartridges that had been released to the press. It was repeated by an NPC character that was included in the game. For those of you who don't know, the Animal Crossing NPC's all have a catchphrase such as "Chicka" or "Bow-wow". They will say this word after just about any thing they say. Somehow, it was programmed into a large amount of cartridges and so the character would say things such as "Oh, why hello there! The weather is exceptional today, Nigga." For those of you who couldn't put things together, that was the word used.
It seems that a lot of companies put in subliminal messages into their child movies or games. Disney has a lot of it in fact. Just look closely at the Little Mermaid for example. Full of sexually explict things.
I know, right. The amount of satanic references in Super Mario 3 is insane! *Cookie to anyone who knows where that's from.*
I WANT MY COOKIE!!! its from the angry video game nerd the super mario 3 episode (He curses alot and is funny as hell). He recently put out a video for the PHILLIPS CDI it was part 2 and is working on part 3 of that. I know alot about him, He is my gamerpic afterall... Oh and i cant wait for part 3. Don't click this link if you cant handle curses and/or funny stuff like a guy in a bugs bunny costume being **** on and stuff. http://www.gametrailers.com/screwattack.php Go down and click on angry video game nerd. Big Edit: PART 3 IS OUT FINALLY! W00T
I've played animal crossing and there's not much to do except make the animals in your town angry and hate filled. Like, a lot of times my day would start off with fishing and gathering fruit, but I always ended up hitting the hillbilly goat with my net and telling the prissy cat to call the grumpy hippo a fatty.
Hahahaha... If I got that game and I ran up to some random person (to do some pointless job no doubt) and he was like "yo NIGGA", I would piss myself laughing. lulz ;]