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Character in Animal Crossing tosses out the N-word, Nintendo rescues our eyes photo

Earlier today, MTV Multiplayer spotted an odd NPC in a copy of the DS title Animal Crossing: Wild World, which was presumably sent along with a review copy of City Folk to show compatibility between the two games. 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 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.
Nintendo added that they are “working with media” and asking reviewers to return the copies to the company immediately. Apparently, this is only a bug that will affect the 14 copies sent around to the press. While I don’t exactly understand why players won’t be able to send each other characters with naughty names and phrases, it appears as though you won’t get the chance. You can probably still wear a shirt with a penis design on it though, if that’s any consolation.







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svinehund's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 09:28
svinehund
lol fag.
killias2's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 09:31
killias2
Is this really how the game looks? Yuck.
ParaParaKing's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 09:42
ParaParaKing
Wait? 14 copies of this are out there and one of the media outlets actually created this? It's like someone renamed their character into something offensive and then made a big deal out of it.
CrocBox's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 09:45
CrocBox
So this user-generated catch phrase is going to be removed? Lame.
CALkulon's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 09:54
CALkulon
Can we get rid of svinehund yet?
PappaDukes's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:01
PappaDukes
And the 2008 award for most racist dtoider goes too....CROCBOX! Thanks for playing, douche.
2567890-8765's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:04
2567890-8765
Wait, what N-word? Nipple?
Raccoonus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:24
Raccoonus
I can't believe that sheep called Mario a nerdherder!
Logstain's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:42
Logstain
Personally I like the line before it. *Heart u long time.
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:44
Jonathan Holmes
There are all sorts of things you can't say in City Folk, but it's still super easy to get around the game's self censoring system. "Fuck" becomes "Fuuck!", "Pussyfart" becomes "Pissyfart", etc.

It actually makes it a little more fun to be immature and offensive when you know the game doesn't want you to.
dgschrei's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:46
dgschrei
So the sheep calls Mario a Nazi? Well he is Italian so I guess it is a bit racist.
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:48
falinter
plus you cant stop people doign it in 1337 spelling
BlackSheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 10:50
BlackSheep
poor image for sheep.
CelicaCrazed's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 11:02
CelicaCrazed
And with that Nintendo increased the number of digits in the Friend Codes to a billion.
Arugala9's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 11:40
Arugala9
The offending word is in the DS version Animal Crossing: Wild World. It was sent to the reviewers so they could check out the how it interacts with City Folk.
adamthegrave's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 13:53
adamthegrave
its not a racists word if you been to and passed school you should know what it means some people are just stupid, but no that word been twisted around so bad
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 13:54
MechaMonkey
How are you, Noodlebrain?
Kent's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 14:26
Kent
my ninja...
eternalplayer2345's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 14:39
eternalplayer2345
Adds some grittiness to the AC world
Muddy Waterz's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 14:57
Muddy Waterz
Not even video games are sacred anymore lol.
xSledgewick's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 17:20
xSledgewick
That'd be great if because that word was entered the greeting changing to, "What's up my..."
Coldbrand's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/04/2008 19:01
Coldbrand
Sure is misleading headlines for the sake of hits in here.
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