BBC Blamed For On-Air Nintendo Hardware Blunder, As UK Games Body Distances Itself From SNES Snafu

The UK's games manufacture assemblage has distanced itself from an embarrassing BBC blunder, aft an archetypal NES Super Mario Bros. cartridge was shown jammed into an SNES console

In the meal TV conception broadcast this morning, UKIE brag Nick Poole introduced hosts Jon Kay and Sally Nugent to a enactment of retro systems, including a ZX81, a Nintendo Wii, and an SNES. And contempt Nugent's palpable disbelief that her co-host Kay had "spent hours — days" enjoying the archetypal Donkey Kong, it was the incorrect set-up that truly got radical talking.

"Great to spot this contented connected [a] mainstream channel, but a NES cart connected a SNES? And where's the greatest, and UK's biggest selling 16-bit console, the SEGA Mega Drive?" asked 1 responsive successful the comments, portion different suggested connected Reddit: "They should person gone afloat intelligence and added a GameCube controller."

"I privation to study a crime," wrote different successful a remark that has been upvoted hundreds of times."

This show was either acceptable up by idiosyncratic who knows thing astir games, oregon idiosyncratic who knows a batch astir games and wants to screw with this subreddit," posited different respondent, portion different simply wrote: "*external screaming*"

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In response, UKIE distanced itself from the mistake, telling VGC: "For transparency, the workplace squad acceptable up the in-studio show independently and handled the placement of the consoles — unfortunately, we couldn’t set it whilst connected air."

In related Nintendo-flavored news, the manager of the upcoming Donkey Kong Bananza precocious acknowledged "performance" issues, portion saying the squad prioritized "fun and playability" during development.

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