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kotaku.com - 12/3/2008

Nintendo Sends Game to Journos With Racial Epithet Surprise [Nintendo Gets Racist?]

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A copy of DS title Animal Crossing Wild World sent out to media yesterday by Nintendo came loaded with most of the game's secrets unlocked, it also included a nasty surprise. When you come upon Baabara, the town's resident sheep, you're greeted with a racial epithet. The word is used ...

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Well this is just plain offensive
That VideoGame Blog — Reports are flooding in across the internet from reporters a bit luckier than we are at TVGB that some pretty offensive stuff is coming out of the mouth of a sheep in reporter’s copies of Nintendo’s 2005 DS game Animal Crossing: Wild World. See Nintendo sent the game opened and completed to reporters so that they could upload all the unlocked features on Animal Crossing: City Folk. One of the features of the game is to customize in game character’s greetings. Some Nintendo employee who had beaten the game went ahead an ...

Nintendo Responds To Racism In Animal Crossing DS
GayGamer.net — ... Unfortunately, whoever put the existing content on these cartridges forgot something. Occasionally, the residents of your town will ask you to come up with a new catchphrase for them. The game also tends to virally spread such things when residents move to other towns via the internet. This leads to situations like the one shown above. Nintendo responded to this today. ...

Nintendo Addresses Racial Slur Shipped with Animal Crossing Review Kits
GamePolitics News — ... Kotaku reported yesterday that editor Brian Crecente received a pre-played copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS. The 2005 title, shipped with secrets unlocked, was intended to show reviewers how content could easily be migrated from the DS game to the recently-released Wii title, Animal Crossing: City Folk. ...