Nintendo's Maniac Mansion Censorship Explored

Posted by simoniker on Monday August 11, 2003 @02:44AM 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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Nintendo is in denial concerning adult content by Tragedy4u · 2003-08-11 03:30 · 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!