4. Punch-Out!!
No, Punch Out being racist has got absolutely nothing to do with trying to beat up Mike Tyson, and frankly, that's probably the most enjoyable and iconic aspect of the game. What proves bothersome is the ludicrously insensitive character names used throughout. Remember the Russian boxer, Soda Popinski? Sounds harmless enough, right? Well, his original name was Vodka Drunkenski, because, hur hur, every Russian loves chugging Vodka like there's no tomorrow. Still, Nintendo apparently thought that changing
one name was sufficient enough to prove that they're not racist; they didn't even begin to think about altering any of the others, which include the likes of a Chinese guy called Dragon Chan, an Indian dude named Great Tiger, and most ludicrously, an Italian called Pizza Pasta (who only made it into the Arcade version, thank God). Pizza Pasta? Really? There's being playful and then there's just taking the P; it's all the more irritating because there's no intellect to it, it's just taking two things that the country is best known for and putting them next to each other in a context that doesn't even really make that much sense.