TipsyRabbit said:
How can you say spastic is not an offensive term? This game is going to be played by small children.. how can spastic ever be said in a good light?
Like I said, "spastic" is a mild derogatory term for mental retardation. It's like saying "loony". Maybe some people who suffer from some form of mental retardation, or some people who knows someone who does, would be sightly offended. But... so what? You can't protect everyone from everything, otherwise there would be nothing. Certainly no humour or comedy which'd be worth watching. It'd all be slap-stick rubbish.
If "spastic" is 'crossing the line', simply because it may offend some fragile-hearted people of whatever disposition, then where do we draw this line? For example, by this token, we should ban jokes aimed at bald people, or fat people, because I know a few of those who might take offense. Obviously, that is bollocks.
You can't sanitize everything, and that is exactly what political correctness does. I know some bald men who take part in ridiculing baldness, and the same for some fatties. I imagine there are a great many people out there who take the piss out of mental or physical retardation, even though they themselves suffer from it. It's called 'self-deprecation', and many people use it freely, as a way of making fun of themselves, and laughing at life.
To censor the word "spastic" in this way is actually really quite patronizing, and assumes that we're all too moronic to see it and take it in a humerous light.
TipsyRabbit said:
Stop being so weird because you hate the government and political correctness, they were RIGHT to do this. Makes me wonder how it ever got in there in the first place though.
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Employees of British video game retailer GAME are reporting an email sent around stores to remove the popular Wii board party game ''Mario Party 8'' and all applicable advertising due to the game having a word considered to be offensive in Britain.

The word is "spastic," and can be seen on the "Shy Guy's Perplex Express" board. If a player lands on one of several certain green spaces, Magikoopa will appear and, before rearranging the train cars, will say, "Magikoopa magic! Turn the train ''spastic'' Make this ticket tragic!"

Nintendo is currently developing an updated version of the game without the offending word.

This is not the first time a video game has been banned in the UK for including the word "spastic." Last month, Ubisoft announced a recall of its PSP brain-training game ''Mind Quiz'' after a mother of a child with cerebral palsy complained because the game called her a "spastic" for not doing well.