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N-word used in Animal Crossing PR gaffe
gamespot.com - 12/3/2008
N-word used in Animal Crossing PR gaffe
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Nintendo sends press copies of DS game Animal Crossing: Wide World which include a character who greets players with a racial slur.

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Nintendo Makes Animal Crossing PR Gaffe
Evil Avatar - News Items — GameSpot is reporting that Nintendo committed a PR gaffe when they sent members of the media promotional material for Animal Crossing: City Folk. Included in the package was a copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) with a saved city already on it. That city turned out to contain racial slurs. Quote: But as spotted ...

Character in Animal Crossing tosses out the N-word, Nintendo rescues our eyes
Destructoid — Earlier today, MTV Multiplayer spotted an odd NPC in their review copy of Animal Crossing: City Folk. Instead of the usual E-Rated greeting that most characters utter, Baarbara the Sheep tossed out a racial epithet. Her words, which you can see clearly in the above image, were originally thought to be some kind of crudely construed hip-hop greeting. Nintendo has since cleaned the mess up in a statement given to GameSpot, in which the publisher blames a user for virally submitting the message via the wireless functionality of the game. From the statement: We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge ...

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