{"id":220,"date":"2025-08-27T18:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/nintendos_new_super_mario_bros_game_and_watch_will_ship_with_a_language_error"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:32:45","slug":"nintendos-new-super-mario-bros-game-watch-will-ship-with-a-language-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nintendos-new-super-mario-bros-game-watch-will-ship-with-a-language-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch Will Ship With A Language Error"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Friday, a brand new Game & Watch system is being released by Nintendo<\/a> in celebration of Super Mario’s 35th anniversary. It’s a pretty exciting launch for collectors and fans of Nintendo’s history, but the company has today apologised for an error that will be present on all systems.<\/p>\n

As you may know, the system includes a digital clock which features 35 ‘little touches’ for owners to discover. One of these is a ‘Mario Drawing’ song that, while vocalised in English, also displays lyrics in a number of different languages.<\/p>\n

Somehow, the languages have been mixed up somewhere in development. Here’s Nintendo’s statement:<\/p>\n

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“We would like to inform you about an error with one of the digital clock\u2019s 35 little touches in the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. system.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the \u2018Mario Drawing\u2019 song (vocalised in English only) that can be accessed by holding the A button, displays an incorrect language\u2019s set of lyrics if German, French, Italian or Spanish is selected from the title screen. English, Dutch and Japanese languages remain unaffected.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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When you do get your hands on the system later this week, then, you’ll have to choose a different language to the one you actually want if your chosen language has been affected. The table below shows which language will be shown depending on which one you select.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Chosen language in title screen<\/th>\nLanguage of song lyrics to be shown<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
French<\/td>\nGerman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spanish<\/td>\nFrench<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
German<\/td>\nItalian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Italian<\/td>\nSpanish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Nintendo goes on to promise that the launch of the system will still take place this Friday:<\/p>\n

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“The system launch is not affected. Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. will launch on November 13th as planned. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n