And certainly when bringing the first SMB to the west during the Videogame crash, when there wasn't even any certainty whether the NES would sell in the States, I doubt there was much more than 1 member of staff assigned to making the english version of the manual and accidentally picking names and canon that would exist for decades into the future! Often NES manuals weren't even translated from Japanese they just made up completely different stories. I don't think Miyamoto, or anyone from Japan was particularly involved in picking the names for the localisations of the manuals. Wed 8th Jun Well in Japan, they are KuribÅ, which means they are actually chestnuts, not mushrooms.is DK's kid, rescuing him from Mario, and that DK was Cranky, does that mean modern DK is actually adult Jr.?! Imagine a games company randomly picking a word that's an ethnic slur today and sticking it in a game as the basic enemy of a kids Well that's interesting. I can only assume it came from Japan, maybe Miyamoto himself, flipping through some book or media for Brooklyn-Italian phrases and found that thinking meant grunt workers or something? That would be in interesting story to hear. Obviously it was picked without knowing it was a slur. It is a curiosity though how Nintendo actually picked that word. It feels almost like we should censor "yankees" in retaliation or something. Maybe because today you don't really hear slurs against all but a few specific groups that are relentlessly protected to the point of universal self-censorship? Seems so strange that an archaic term like "goomba" would be censored in the UK. So NOA took an offensive word, and turned it into a friendly/childish term, completely removing any bite from using it as an isult. Its funny when you hear it in old pre-80s gangster/mob movies. I am slightly baffled as to why the localisation team at NOA decided to use that word in the first place, but in doing so, I reckon they basically stopped it being used as a common slur as Nintendo became so ubiquitous (1 in 4 households owning a NES at one point!) that everyone now only associates the word with Mario. That policy is obviously still in place as I heard the Rosemary Clooney version on the radio a few months back and it was sensored. I was amused when I read that little mushroom guys are called a word I'm technically not supposed to say. The BBC has a very strict list of things they consider racial slurs, some of which are pretty mild, but all of them are considered way worse than things like swearing or drug references, so even at 11pm rap shows you can have some pretty edgy stuff, but can't say even mild racial terms, including "goomba". Wed 8th Jun Yeah, before I was in film I was a producer and ghost-writer for (mostly American) hip-hop and RnB, and when making censored/radio versions we had specific official lists of what words and terms had to be removed for different timeslots in different countries.You can find the whole page with a handful of similar questions over on the Super Mario Wiki - where you can find out why Wario doesn't like Mario and confirm whether Yoshi is a lizard or a dinosaur. Well, if he ever wants to visit again, we'd welcome him with open arms here at Nintendo Life Towers! Of course, we're being a bit silly here, but it's amusing to think about why Nintendo and Burger King chose the United Kingdom as the ape's birthplace for this activity book. The series covers events that have happened. This means that the events of Donkey Kong Country happened in this world. Donkey Kong was born in the UK, but he now lives on Donkey Kong Island. The second part of the answer is what gets us, though. Sounds like Donkey Kong might just enjoy tea and scones - or perhaps a spot of banana bread? The UK isn't the first place we'd guess, but that flashy tie obviously gives it away, right? pag1ttJd8M- Supper Mario Broth June 7, 2022 A quiz from an officially licensed 2002 Burger King/Nintendo activity book reveals that Donkey Kong was born in the UK.
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