User:GBAToad/sandbox

Gee, it sure is boooring around here. Contributions in progress will go here, as well coding practice and other unfinished tidbits. :) For general editing, testing and blah. Nothing to see here, move along. == List of Mario related controversies ==

The following list consists of details regarding all major controversies relating to the Mario series. This article contains information which may be objective to personal views. As such, reader discretion is advised. (NOTE: THIS IS A DRAFT, for now I've copied all of the information currently present on the wiki and placed it here for editing. Thoughts or advice go here, not on the discussion page.)

Satanism
An issue arose over the English translation of WarioWare: Touched, specifically regarding Ashley's Song. In WarioWare: Touched, the 'Turntable' souvenir allows various themes from the game to be listened to with similar functions to a record player, which includes the ability to speed up and slow down the music using the touch screen. However, If the record Ashley's Song is spun fast enough with the stylus, it causes the game to skip over large chunks of dialogue in the song and distort the lyrics. The controversy was with the first solo of the song when distorted:

Eye of newt I cast a hex on you! Grandma's wig, this will make you big! Kitten spit, soon your pants won't fit! Pantalones giganticus! Oh no, not again.

These words form the sentence "Eye of grand this kitt soo pan", which can be misinterpreted as "I have granted kids to hell." Nintendo and Nintendo Power have both stated that it was simply a coincidence and that the words were distorted due to the game meshing pieces of the song together.

Mario Kills Tanooki
After the release of Super Mario 3D Land, The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released a website titled "Mario Kills Tanooki" and an accompanying flash game to promote their anti-fur campaign with regard to the live skinning of raccoon dogs or tanukis. The game, entitled "Super Tanooki Skin 2D", stars the character of Tanooki, a skinless animal who is chasing Mario to get his skin back. The game has the player dodge obstacles in order to catch up to the famous plumber, who is flying ahead of Tanooki, wearing his skin which is dripping with blood. When the player wins the game a message pops up and says that "The skin belongs to an animal!" The site implied that Super Mario 3D Land was promoting the use of animal furs as clothing by allowing Mario to use the Tanooki Suit as a power-up, and included additional information about animal skinning.

This resulted in strong backlash from Nintendo, who released a statement concerning the issue: "Mario often takes the appearance of certain animals and objects in his games.

These have included a frog, a penguin, a balloon and even a metallic version of himself. These lighthearted and whimsical transformations give Mario different abilities and make his games fun to play.

The different forms that Mario takes make no statement beyond the games themselves."

A spokesperson from PETA later claimed that their allegations were "tongue-in-cheek" and "a fun way to call attention to a serious issue, that raccoon dogs are skinned alive for their fur." The website is still active as of 2013-05-10.

Mario Party 8
The game's launch in the United Kingdom was plagued by difficulties. Originally scheduled for release on June 22, 2007, Nintendo announced on June 19, 2007 that the English version had been delayed to July 13, 2007, due to a production issue.

Furthermore, upon the release on July 13, 2007, the game was immediately recalled. In a press release, Nintendo gave the reason for the withdrawal: "'Unfortunately we have discovered that a small number of games contain the wrong version of the disk due to an assembly error'." Multiple retailers reported that it was reportedly withdrawn from shelves because some copies included a line as part of a magic spell used by a Magikoopa in the board Shy Guy's Perplex Express): "'Magikoopa Magic! Turn the train spastic! Make this ticket tragic!'" Due to "spastic" being considered a highly offensive word in the United Kingdom, the game was declared banned. The game was eventually re-released in the United Kingdom on 3rd August 2007, with the offensive statement altered. Copies without the word "spastic" use the word "erratic" instead.

Universal Studios
Approximately nine months after the original Donkey Kong game was marketed in 1981, Universal Studios filed a complaint against Nintendo and their production companies alleging that that the Donkey Kong name, character and story were similar to that of the character King Kong (which had been recently acquired by Universal in 1976). Coleco and Atari promptly settled and offered to pay three percent of all profits made from the game, however Nintendo refused to settle and resisted all offers from Universal. In 1983, Universal ordered 'cease and desist' letters to all of Nintendo's licencees, ordering that the companies either stop production or obtain licences from Universal.

Sandbox
I tried to code this by memory, (The contents are utter nonsense)