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News: Mario Party 8 Delayed Again

Posted by Dean Jones - Jul 13th 2007 19:31

Mario Party 8 finally reached stores in the UK... then gets recalled...

Mario Party 8 has been delayed in the UK until an unspecified date.

Due to an assembly error, a small number of games sent to the stores contained the "wrong version" of Mario Party 8, so Nintendo have recalled all copies of the game. Nintendo have promised that they will correct the mistake as soon as possible. No date has been given on when we should expect Mario Party 8.

Reports suggest that the "wrong version" of the game contains the word "spastic". In British English, "spastic" is a politically incorrect, and an abusive term, for an ungainly or physically inept person; whereas the word is inoffensive in American English. This is also suggested to be the cause of the original delay of the game.

Source: Nintendo Europe

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Nathan Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 14:38 \|\| Total Comments: 1138

Erm... crikey.

I saw it in Game earlier today and I thought they'd finally released it. Are they reprogramming the discs or will totally new copies have to be made?

Harribo Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 14:38 \|\| Total Comments: 25

It's political correctness gone mad.

Vyse Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 14:39 \|\| Total Comments: 17

Politically correctness claims another victim.

D_prOdigy Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 14:40 \|\| Total Comments: 1674

Ubisoft did the same thing a few weeks ago didn't they? Perhaps people should inform developers that the term in question is offensive over here...

Nintendo-master2 Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 14:45 \|\| Total Comments: 1533

Off topic: does anyone have animal crossing here because i left a comment on the forums but it doesnt look very popular so does anyone want to exchange friend codes with me? because i just got onlien to work for ds so i dont have any friends in my roster! thanks, ^_^

Scythe3000 Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 14:49 \|\| Total Comments: 204

LOL Spastic aint offensive in america? What the hell does it mean over there?

The disk's will need to be chucked out and new ones made basically.

Nathan Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 15:42 \|\| Total Comments: 1138

Nintendo-master, keep hanging around the forums. Give it some time, the online board usually isn't very busy and Animal Crossing has been played to death on N-Europe, so people are taking some time apart. :p I'll give your village a visit at some points, and I'll bring gifts. Just continue hanging around the forums though.

I've just had a thought. Imagine if you kept the recalled version of the game. It might fetch quite a bit on eBay at some point.

Llewdebkram Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 16:11 \|\| Total Comments: 239

Why can't they just sticker it:

WARNING - you may be called a spastic in this game.

Canand Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 16:11 \|\| Total Comments: 94

I am not sending it back I was lucking foward to playing it and know this it is friday 13th today aswell I hate Nintendo

CSP Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 16:23 \|\| Total Comments: 536

hehe Ι never thought that when an HMV salesperson said on thursday "you'd better preorder it because it will sell out really fast" he would actually know what he was talking about. :p I came out of the store mumbling "this is not the US, people don't go for games like this in the UK". However I am sure that "his insight" was just a coincidence.

So whoever was lucky to get it can now enjoy the beginning of the third generation of MP games (unlike critics reviews). Can someone let us know where that word is?

CSP Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 16:25 \|\| Total Comments: 536

"I've just had a thought. Imagine if you kept the recalled version of the game. It might fetch quite a bit on eBay at some point."

$_$ hehe

Canand Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 16:30 \|\| Total Comments: 94

Yeah I well keep it

TheVillan Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 18:04 \|\| Total Comments: 34

"Britsh English"? No, nononononono. Just call it "English", m'boy, and if anyone asks, just call them a bloody fool! Alrighty.

Hamish Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 18:33 \|\| Total Comments: 271

I read somewhere the Wii was a naughty word in English Speaking countries as well.

Nintendo-master2 Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 18:41 \|\| Total Comments: 1533

@ Nathan
well i posted it up here because in the animal crossing forum nobody has left a comment in months so i thaught id put it here! ^_^ again if anyone wants to go to my village just PM me! ^o^

Esparcia Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 19:31 \|\| Total Comments: 22

hmm did'nt know they are THIS gentle to eachothere in England :| they should'nt visit the Netherlands then, here we wish eachother cancer and stuff xD

SenorKristobbal Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 20:16 \|\| Total Comments: 31

One of the few times political correctness is right. Being "spastic" is a medical condition and shouldn't be used in a derogatory sense.

Rummy Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 23:30 \|\| Total Comments: 194

To Nathan's original question, I should imagine the discs aren't re-programmable and will need to be entirely re-made undortunately, although given the recent review of MP8, I'm not too bothered personally. As for the reasoning behind it, too right they pulled it off the shelves, I can see some people getting offended by it, though I'm a little torn on the issue.

Scythe3000 Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 06:18 \|\| Total Comments: 204

Esparcia Personaly I don't know of any country that speaks to each other and badly as us brits tbh.

However this is a mario game, kids will play it, and to be perfectly honest while most of us dont mind f'ing and blind'in words like "spastic" (colloquial word for someone who has cerebral palsy), and other medical conditions that have been turned into derogatory colloquial terms such as babies who's mothers took thalidomide during their pregnancy, "thlids"(phlids), are imo off bounds.

Rapture1984 Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 06:53 \|\| Total Comments: 30

Haha I want to know how the term is used in the game??

Does Mario call Luigi a spastic? That'd be great.

Canand Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 09:16 \|\| Total Comments: 94

I havent got it on mine

RawkingRawlings Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 09:51 \|\| Total Comments: 388

Hahaha, imagined when you lose and Bowser calls you a 'Great big spastic!' Now this is funny, if a little un-PC.

Japjer Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 19:43 \|\| Total Comments: 5

"I've just had a thought. Imagine if you kept the recalled version of the game. It might fetch quite a bit on eBay at some point."

The recalled version will probably be sent to mainland Europe. The french probably aren't gonna be upset that the english language option has a single word that's not entirely politically correct in another country :p

Randavance Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 23:47 \|\| Total Comments: 58

God bell America.

And yes it's a little weird that an American would get his news from a feed called N-Europe, but that's just because most American feeds suck in comparison.

Randavance Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 23:47 \|\| Total Comments: 58

Bless* not bell

Emerald_Emblem Says:
July 15th, 2007 at 16:21 \|\| Total Comments: 32

Luckily I got it before they recalled the game for my little brother. I got the day day released a few hours after it opened. When was it recalled?

Kurtle Says:
July 15th, 2007 at 16:40 \|\| Total Comments: 363

I wish I'd preordered it from Gameplay now. -_-
I didn't because of it's mixed reviews.

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Mario Party 8 (Wii)

System:
Wii

Genre:
Party

Developer:
Hudson Soft

Publisher:
Nintendo

Release Dates:

Out now

05.07.2007

Memorycard:
N/A

Multiplayer:
8

Last updated on:
Jun 5th 2007

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