Shrygue
July 24th, 2007, 19:57
via Computer and Video Games (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=168789)
Mario Party 8 was pulled from shelves last week after it was revealed that the game contained the word "spastic" in its script. It will now be re-released next Friday August 3.
At one point in the originally released version of the game, the blue wizard known as Kamek said: "Magikoopa magic! Turn the train spastic! Make this ticket tragic!" Bad wizard.
"The offending word has been replaced at code level and the software reproduced," said Nintendo.
"We are confident we have taken the correct appropriate levels and action necessary and in all new versions of the game there are no issues - however we cannot 100 per cent guarantee that every copy of the initial batch was returned to us and as such there may still be a small number of copies of the game in circulation," Nintendo told MCV.
Look for copies of Mario Party 8: Spastic Edition selling for big bucks on eBay soon.
Mario Party 8 was pulled from shelves last week after it was revealed that the game contained the word "spastic" in its script. It will now be re-released next Friday August 3.
At one point in the originally released version of the game, the blue wizard known as Kamek said: "Magikoopa magic! Turn the train spastic! Make this ticket tragic!" Bad wizard.
"The offending word has been replaced at code level and the software reproduced," said Nintendo.
"We are confident we have taken the correct appropriate levels and action necessary and in all new versions of the game there are no issues - however we cannot 100 per cent guarantee that every copy of the initial batch was returned to us and as such there may still be a small number of copies of the game in circulation," Nintendo told MCV.
Look for copies of Mario Party 8: Spastic Edition selling for big bucks on eBay soon.