Believe it or not recently it’s been reported by Kotaku that several Journalists who received a copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World, along with their review copy of Animal Crossing: City Folk received the game with some… not so nice language. In fact it’s language that probably not ever appropriate enough for a Nintendo game.

Nintendo responded to this situation of racial language in the game with the following:

“Previously played copies of the 2005 DS game Animal Crossing: Wild World were sent to 14 members of the media to demonstrate the ability of players to transfer items to the new Animal Crossing: City Folk for Wii. We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge via a wireless function that allows user-generated catchphrases to spread virally from one game to the next. This version is limited to 14 copies created for media review purposes only and is not available at retailers. We sincerely apologies for the incident and are working with media who received the game cards to return them to Nintendo immediately.”

My question is: How the heck did the racial slur get in there in the first place?

The world may never know.

Link to the article by Kotaku.