10 Censored Moments In Mario Games

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00:00 Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we'll be taking a look at our list of 10 censored moments

00:10 in Mario games.

00:20 For as family-friendly as Mario seems here in America, changes in other regions, including

00:25 our own, beg to differ.

00:28 Which moment of Mario censorship surprised you the most?

00:31 Let us know down in the comments.

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00:42 Yserb 3-16 One of the strangest things about Mario Party

00:51 is just how often the series has faced censorship compared to the other Mario spin-offs, and

00:56 none of them had anything to do with alcohol.

01:00 You know, the good stuff that can land a party in some hot water.

01:03 The first Mario Party, for instance, was censored because of lines uttered by Wario and Luigi

01:09 that might appall the more religious players outside of Japan.

01:13 Rather than potentially alienate those audiences, Nintendo would change Luigi's line to a

01:18 simple "whale" and Wario's to his German phrase "Oh, I missed."

01:28 Puzzles for Adults Again, you would think the alcohol references

01:36 would be found more in something like Mario Party, not a game where you etch out blocks

01:41 to make pictures.

01:43 Some of the puzzles featured in the Japanese version see you creating pictures of alcoholic

01:48 drinks as well as tobacco and various items that were more focused on Japanese culture.

01:53 For international versions, these puzzles were replaced to etch out works that formed

01:57 animals, food, and other images.

02:00 This was most likely done due to Nintendo of America and various other branches having

02:05 policies against featuring drinking and smoking in video games, which is understandable considering

02:10 how countries view those habits very differently across their respective cultures.

02:16 Yoshi's Seafood Snack Even though Super Mario World faced visual

02:26 changes across different regions, most of them were done out of necessity to character

02:30 names and how systems were optimized.

02:33 The one big change, however, involved our adorable green dino.

02:37 In the Japanese version, Yoshi is able to eat the dolphins featured in some of the water

02:42 levels, but this was removed from international versions most likely due to how other countries

02:46 viewed dolphin hunting and animal cruelty.

02:50 Or by some off chance, maybe this was just because of a bug and it was an overlooked

02:54 bit of code.

02:55 Regardless, the GBA port would restore this possibility in all versions.

03:05 Go home, Luigi.

03:12 South Korea has an incredibly strict government when it comes to gambling, at least it is

03:16 for Korean citizens regardless if they gamble in or outside of the country.

03:21 It's viewed so negatively that a Korean citizen could face some serious time in prison,

03:26 and yet tourists are more than welcome to gamble at what few casinos reside.

03:31 And so, when Super Mario 64 DS was released in South Korea, you could probably guess what

03:37 portion of the game was removed entirely to abide by these laws.

03:41 And it wasn't just Luigi's casino minigames, every minigame got removed.

03:46 Luigi, we might have to have a talk about your… problem.

03:50 It's affecting everybody, man.

03:59 Mushroom Kingdom's Freedom Fighter

04:08 Was this a moment of censorship?

04:10 This one has admittedly never been confirmed, but given the political climate at the time,

04:15 one cannot help but be suspicious.

04:18 In Origami King, one toad goes into a frenzy after being freed, crying out about how toads

04:24 have no rights and deserve freedom.

04:27 In the Chinese version, the new text translates to "Toads need to be clean, toads need peace

04:33 and quiet."

04:35 Some argue that the new quote has more cultural, economic context to it and still uses the

04:40 general tone of injustice.

04:42 But given the events of the Hong Kong protests that occurred before the game's release,

04:47 we wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese government had a hand in the censorship.

04:57 No Bubbles Allowed

05:04 The Mario Kart series has kept its hands somewhat clean, but the first bit of censorship it

05:08 faced was in the very first game.

05:11 The Japanese versions of Super Mario Kart feature two animations for Peach and Bowser

05:15 that see them drink straight from champagne bottles.

05:19 Champagne bottles have long had a role in celebrating victories in motorsports, so the

05:23 inclusion here was totally understandable.

05:26 Not so much when catering to other demographics, though, specifically in the West.

05:30 Nintendo of America changed the animations to adhere to their guidelines on depicting

05:35 alcohol in games.

05:43 The Smoking Guns

05:53 The first Mario Party just faced a couple of audio changes.

05:57 Mario Party 2, on the other hand, was hit with a double whammy.

06:01 First off, Professor Fungi's pipe is removed from the international versions of the game

06:05 because, you know, usage of tobacco.

06:08 But the big one many of you probably know already is the ending to Western Land, where

06:13 Bowser and the winner's guns are replaced with cork poppers.

06:17 For as much as we would love the somewhat more violent version, the cork poppers make

06:22 the whole ending just way more entertaining.

06:31 Facing Problems

06:38 Not even the good Dr. Mario is safe from the censor's scrutiny.

06:43 Thing is that this one does skirt the line of racism.

06:47 In the English versions of Dr. Mario 64, Octo is depicted with a blue shelling and orange

06:53 interior.

06:54 In the Japanese version, Octo has a more questionable appearance.

06:59 Basically, it was an alteration done very much in the same way Pokemon went about with

07:04 changing Jinx.

07:13 Poor Choice of Words

07:22 Mario Party found itself in a bit of trouble once more, and this time it was financially

07:27 damaging.

07:28 Mario Party 8 was not in the United Kingdom market for long when it initially launched.

07:34 Players were furious over the game's inclusion of the term "spastic," prompting Nintendo

07:38 to do a total recall.

07:41 Changes were made in the game's code, using the word "erratic" instead, reprints were

07:45 made, and it inflated Mario Party 8's budget a little more than the conglomerate probably

07:50 would have liked.

07:52 Too Many to List

08:00 The Thousand Year Door may go down as the most heavily censored game in Mario history.

08:05 There were simply way too many changes thrown around for us to make separate entries about

08:10 them.

08:11 There's the house with the chalked outline of a supposedly murdered toad, the less graphic

08:15 name used for the red bones, the alteration of red wine turning into Chocola Cola, which

08:20 by the way is still a clever reference to the Mario and Luigi games, the booze that

08:25 wear cat ears because we can't reference Playboy Bunnies in a Mario game, and even

08:29 Mario's Wave, which was removed in the European versions for reasons obvious to anybody who

08:34 has taken a history class.

08:36 And do we even dare get into the whole thing about Vivian?

08:40 We'd rather not.

08:41 But you get our point.

08:57 Thanks for watching.

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