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Nintendo's Maniac Mansion Censorship Explored

Posted by simoniker on from the dead-cousin-ted-didn't-approve dept.

Thanks to Video-Fenky for a new feature illustrating the Nintendo censorship affecting the NES version of Maniac Mansion. These comments were originally written up in a 1993 issue of Wired, and an unedited prototype NES cart of the classic point n' click adventure has been found to show the changes - though "Nintendo didn't catch the old 'blow up the hamster in the microwave' trick (it was removed in the European version)", changes include editing Nurse Edna's suggestive speeches ("I should have tied you to my bed, cutie!"), and switching graffiti in the bathroom from "For a good time EDNA 3444" to "Call EDNA 3444".

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  1. Nintendo is in denial concerning adult content by Tragedy4u · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nintendo thinks its perfectly acceptable for kids to play a game with short, fat Italians run and jump around a hallucinogenic fantasy world eating MAGIC mushrooms to aquire bizzare super powers. But kids calling a toothless old hag for a "good time" is wrong compared to gross rampant drug use in the Mario franchise?

    Time to come clean Nintendo or all these kids will send their Betty Ford clinic bills to you!

    1. Re:Nintendo is in denial concerning adult content by Spleener12 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Play Paper Mario sometime. Hell, look at some SCREENSHOTS of Paper Mario sometime. Mario ain't the only one at Nintendo who's doing drugs. Three words: Penguin Murder Mystery.

      (To potential flamers: Paper Mario is still a GREAT GAME. It's just an incredibly bizarre one, that's all.)

  2. Re:On ./ Games Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mark the parent off topic. I don't know what this dotslash that the poster speaks off, but it certainly has nothing to do with this site, slashdot.