





Nintendo DS, the popular portable gaming console, has an edutainment game title called “Spanish for Everyone” that tries to teach little kids valuable Spanish lessons. The problem is, the “lessons” are part of a plot that portrays Mexicans as thieves, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Plus, a talking Messianic bull! Orale! Nintendo fan site DS Fanboy explains the introduction of the game:
Miguel asks to play with his friend Shawn’s (brother’s) DS for a minute, just as Miguel’s father pulls up in a limousine and informs him that it’s time to go. The car pulls out before Miguel can return the DS, headed straight to Mexico and trailed by two police cars. Shawn’s aunt, a taxi driver, pulls up and offers to drop him off in Tijuana, and to help him learn Spanish along the way. She tells him “They don’t call me Gina Vasquez for nothing! I can teach you many things, and Spanish is definitely one of them!
Holy Gina Vagina! Hold on to your joysticks boys and girls and repeat after us: “Nintendo esta muy cabron!”
They don’t call me Gina Vasquez for nothing!’ [DS Fanboy]

Slow down with the Nintendo hating. While I can agree that the game is pretty racist, you have to keep in mind that its not a game made by Nintendo. It was made by some small company named “Humagade” and published by Activision. The only thing Nintendo about it is that its on a Nintendo system.
Blaming this game on Nintendo is like blaming DVD-player manufacturers for making porn.
Posted by Irv the Perv | November 09, 2007