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19 Years Ago, Nintendo Had to Recall This Video Game Due to One Offensive Line of Dialogue

British fans of the ‘Mario Party’ games had to wait a while to get their hands on the series’ eighth installment as Nintendo scrambled to remove some dialogue at the last minute

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British fans of Nintendo’s popular Mario Party series had to wait a little longer than everybody else to get their hands on the franchise’s eighth installment back in 2007.

Originally scheduled to come out on June 22 of that year, Mario Party 8’s release date was pushed back to July 13 in the UK because of so-called “production issues,” which somehow didn’t affect any of the other versions that were already out there. However, the unspecified problems apparently hadn’t been fixed by the time the game finally hit stores.

“Unfortunately we have discovered that a small number of games contain the wrong........

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