Reception and Legacy
The game was never localized outside of Japan, and was noted by IGN as an example of racism in video games. It was also noted by 1UP.com for its "horrible stereotyping". The portrayal of black people as black faced caricatures with huge lips has been noted about the game.
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Famous quotes containing the words reception and/or legacy:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)