Nintendo can't seem to stop itself from
making derogatory comments about people who suffer from cerebral palsy.
For the second time in a month, Nintendo
has taken a game off the shelves for using the word 'spastic' in its derogatory
sense.
Mario Party 8, a multi-player game for
the Wii console, was taken off the shelves almost as soon as it was put
there.
In the script a a blue wizard called
Kamek appears on screen and intones: "Magikoopa Magic! Turn the
train, spastic! Make this ticket tragic!"
Red faced Nintendo said a "small number
of games contain the wrong version of the disk due to an assembly
error". However it is the second time that
Nintendo has withdrawn a game for including the word
'spastic'.
MindQuiz branded players who achieved low
scores 'spastics' and 'super-spastics' and was pulled.
Nintendo said that Mario Party 8 was
developed in the US, "where the word does not have the same offensive
connotations as in the UK." However in the US the word is 'Spaz', not
Spastic.
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