Capcom‘s newly-released Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection accommodates a disclaimer warning gamers about racist and in any other case culturally insensitive content material.
The retro compilation consists of the ten Mega Man Battle Network video games launched on the Game Boy Advance between 2001 and 2005.
However, as The Gamer studies, the compilation opens with a message informing gamers that a few of the video games function questionable and offensive content material, which has been saved in for the sake of preservation.
“Capcom values range and inclusivity inside its video games and its neighborhood,” the disclaimer reads.
“Please remember the video games on this assortment might include some circumstances of insensitive cultural depictions which might be introduced as initially created to protect their authenticity.”
According to discussions on the ResetEra discussion board about which moments this could possibly be referring to, the consensus seems to recommend that Mega Man Battle Network 2 is the principle supply of the problematic content material.
At one level gamers encounter a Black man who says: “I pray each morning to my God, and the rooster he gives.”
Later gamers have a rap battle with a personality referred to as Whiskey who says: “You simply outta da crib, child! Go suck yo momma’s milk!”
Other downside factors embrace the Native American character TomahawkMan.exe and protagonist MegaMan.exe’s declare: “Women, can’t reside with ’em and may’t reside with out ’em.”
The disclaimer is just like others utilized by Disney (which regularly shows them earlier than older films and cartoons on Disney+) and Warner Bros (which incorporates them earlier than house media releases of its previous Looney Tunes cartoons).
While some consider the content material itself must be edited to take away the offensive materials, others consider using such disclaimers is a good compromise to make sure the work is preserved and introduced in its authentic kind, warts and all.
