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Super Mario Galaxy Boxart: Nintendo Sending Subliminal Homophobic Message?

By: Daniel Chubb | September 16, 2007 | 9 Comments

Super Mario Galaxy Logo

Several people on GameFAQs with eagle eyes have spotted something slightly strange about the boxart for the upcoming game by Nintendo for the Wii.

Take a look at the boxart for the upcoming game;

Super Mario Galaxy Box

Now, look at the letters with the stars underneath and make a sentence out of those letters. What do you get?

 ”U R MR. GAY”

See for yourself. Myself, neither other reporters are claiming that this is Nintendo’s intention, or am I implying anything of this sort. We are clearly mentioning some “coincidental” mishaps in the boxart of an upcoming game.

Mind Quiz also published by Nintendo earlier on in the year, was pulled after telling users offensive messages and made references to the disabled.

Will this boxart ultimately have to be altered? Let us know.

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  • Daniel

    Wow that is really hilarious. GO NINTENDO!

  • jeff

    “Go Nintendo”? That is the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day, Daniel.

    Let me guess – you’re a vanilla white kid living in the middle of the U.S.

  • Anon

    That thing in the upper left hand corner is the same shape as a bottle of Elbow Grease personal lubricant.

  • Beximus

    i think you’re reading too much into it kinda like with the little mermaid and boner palace.

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  • SW4J

    First of all “anon” 1&2

    Second of all, this is just retarded. I sincerely doubt this has any basis in anything and is just the media seeing what it wants to in order to draw attention to something and cause hysteria over NOTHING.

    The stars in GalAxY? They’re at the beginning, middle, and end of the word–perfectly logical. As for sUpeR MaRio, they spread the stars out so you don’t have two stars on top of each other, the whole format is made so it looks natural, not crowded. And yes, I wrote the title that way since each capitalized letter is one with a star, in case you were wondering. No 1337 there.

  • Kensai

    Starwars is troof.

  • mindtwist1991

    It makes no sense. U R MR GAY? Reading way too much into it. Get a life.

  • Weegee Malleo

    I really hope that’s just a coincidence, because if not, Nintendo would be being REALLY politically incorrect. I actually know a few gay people who think Nintendo is the best thing that ever happened to the world, and they may be right. Unless, of course, this was deliberate. There’s really nothing wrong with being gay; if Nintendo can’t see that, than obviously we’ve been glorifying them way too much.