Super Mario Galaxy – U R MR GAY
Notice the white sparkles on the corners of some of the letters, they spell out U R MR GAY. Could this possibly be an accident, or did some Xbox Live kid do the boxart design? Great lookin boxart even if it does make you MR GAY
September 15th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Epic.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
flawless victory
September 15th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
wowwwww. how can nintendo even say the word gay? did they take that into offense. they just called themselves gay.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Well I guess I will be Mr Gay once it comes out, hehe
September 15th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
All Nintendo fan’s are Gay, noooooooooooo…
I think it’s only the hazard which makes it.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Very interesting catch. It’s amazing that no matter what it is, you can always count on someone to turn it into a dirty joke on the internet. Mmm freedom.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
It’s not photoshopped, I checked the box art on Amazon.com, this is legit.
September 16th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Keep quiet about this so Nintendo doesn’t change the retail boxart.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:00 am
look at that big flying dick in the background
September 16th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Loool!!!
Too funny !!
It reminds me of the “sex” word in the Lion King :D
September 16th, 2007 at 9:43 am
i can’t find it…i’ve looked all over the damn picture and can’t find it
September 16th, 2007 at 9:55 am
….
September 16th, 2007 at 11:16 am
bbwbahahhahah
September 16th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
wow, i wonder if nintendo will lose sales like this
September 16th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
lulz
September 16th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Nintendo knows it’s core audience and how to market for them.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
omg you’re right:| alert the media >_>
September 17th, 2007 at 9:17 am
code blue! code blue!!! :|
September 17th, 2007 at 11:17 am
hehehehe, yes I am crever. GG americans.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
look the Capital letters–>
sUpeR
MaRio
GalAxY
;)
September 18th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
hmm, I heard of subliminal advertising but this is just crazy!
September 18th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Why thank you! I totally am gay and I will definitely buy this game for me and my whole family!
September 18th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
i cant see where it says tht..
September 18th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
It’s not the capital letters, it’s the tiny little twinkling stars below each of the Letters U R MR GAY.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
You’re all idiots. No one in real life talks like “U R MR GAY”, so the fact it’s there is probably a coincidence. If they wanted to slip in something subliminal, like “sex” in Lion King or whatever, then they would have at least spelled the words correctly.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
look, my name spells “this is so gay”.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
I’m thinking this is really a marketing strategy by Nintendo. Everyone is talking about Mario Galaxy when Halo 3 is just around the corner!
September 18th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
And I suppose that black hole is secretly a butthole, right? >.>
September 18th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
[...] Super Mario Galaxy tells you, “U R MR. GAY” [...]
September 18th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Ha! Seems as tho gamers are the gayest bunch of all, considering they are the ones who always notice the most gay stuff! Only a bunch of gay nerds would search for and find UR MR GAY. LOL…kudos nerds!
September 18th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
JAJAJAJA Man, we should have commented on this after the release!!!
Then, Nintendo can change the box art and we get a rare “gay” box art. Then, you sell it in eBay in 15 years :D
September 18th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
As if we all didn’t know Mario and Luigi were bumming eachother senseless between adventures. This is Nintendo’s way of coming out…
September 18th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
It’s obviously just a coincidence….
why write ‘U R MR GAY’. Who the hell calls people ‘Mr. Gay?’
why not write ‘U R GAY’.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
abajaj2280 Says: wowwwww. how can nintendo even say the word gay? did they take that into offense. they just called themselves gay.
Uh, no they called YOU gay. Thus “U R Mr. Gay” (You are Mr. Gay)
September 18th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Yeah… its SUBLIMINAL, retard. If it actually said whatever it wouldn’t be hidden. Riiiiiight?? As far as talking correctly goes, people that don’t speak English well (like i don’t know, the Japanese??) might switch things around a bit! Think before you speak smarty.
# Anonymous Says:
September 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
You’re all idiots. No one in real life talks like “U R MR GAY”, so the fact it’s there is probably a coincidence. If they wanted to slip in something subliminal, like “sex” in Lion King or whatever, then they would have at least spelled the words correctly.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
[...] Megaton News: Notice the white sparkles on the corners of some of the letters, they spell out U R MR GAY. Could [...]
September 19th, 2007 at 2:09 am
[...] cover art have a white sparkle on them, which ends up spelling U R MR GAY – see it for yourselves here. Naturally there are some over-sensitive and extremely paranoid gamers who have taken great offence [...]
September 19th, 2007 at 2:57 am
It’s not saying that “you’re” gay.
It’s saying that, whilst the game features Mario, you’ll be playing as the silly twinkling star pointer thing… You, are Mr Gay!..
Makes perfect sense to me!
September 19th, 2007 at 3:11 am
I’m thinking it might be a reference to the Stephen King Book/Film Dreamcatcher. In the story the character Duditz’ evil alien nemesis is called ‘Mr Grey’. Duditz has a speech impediment though so he pronounces the name of the Alien ‘MR GAY’ which nobody figures out until the end of the story….Solved?
September 19th, 2007 at 3:21 am
…Perhaps Nintendo are part of the ongoing worldwide UFO disclosure and supporting the theory that our collective dna has been manipulated by extraterrestrials in times past and that we are all…Aliens!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:53 am
This post is Mr Gay.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Morgadeth and Jayenkai: perfect. i agree with both of you completely.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Dear Anonymous, if you had been reading my posts you’d have noted that I was very much on topic. Dumb a**
September 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Could be Photoshopped too. I mean, look, all the sparkles are the exact same picture/texture. Nintendo isn’t that sloppy. Usually there is at least some difference in size/transparency/brightness/etc.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Speaking as a professional graphic designer, this is really just a case of gamers looking to be silly. If you’ll look at the placement of the stars, they take your eyes slightly off the large amount of text in the title. Rather than spacing them out and losing valuable cover space, they used the stars to make it seem like they’re more spaced out.
That being said, I would have placed another star above the ‘X’ to space that out, but all in all, it’s a good design.
September 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
dwight f is mr gay
September 19th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
U R me!
September 19th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Wow, the amount of stupidity in this world really does amaze me. Is it just me, or do most people commenting on this have the brain capacities of week-old roadkill? Please, we don’t want to hear about your personal homosexual tendencies. We also don’t want to hear about your opinion of OTHER people’s homosexual tendencies, whether they’re true or not. Basically, we don’t give a damn about who you’re currently stalking. Besides, it’s not right.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Oh, lighten up, you bunch of candy asses! It’s just a coincidence that someone found funny. Stop crying and grow some testes.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I always knew that Italian freak was a ‘lil light in the loafers. Jumping on phallic mushrooms, indeed…
September 20th, 2007 at 6:20 am
This has got to be fake. Would anyone at nintendo be that stupid? Well maybe not considering they have vending machines selling used womens underwear.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Really.
UR MR GAY
hmm.
sUpeR MaRio GalAxY
I wonder.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I’m from the American Christian Coalition. I feel we should boycott this game would trying to influence our kids to try gay.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:56 am
Get a life
September 21st, 2007 at 4:44 am
There was a guy on a nintendo section of the forum who thought I was actually gay and stuff. He called me a stalker because he asked me what info does he spin, remember these homosexuals always pathelogical liars, their whole life is a deception. Ppl accuse themselves through others, I made a reference to the ink blotch test, what I meant at the time was everyone sees different things out of patterns, if you see gay, well, I don’t.
He thought I was a stalker, that’s digusted reference. It seems making fun of the core audience of wii gamers makes you a homosexual automatically on forums. It’s not fair and no one is stalking you, those gamers are so sensistive. Besides why would I want to stalk you? Maybe your so sensitive like all wii gamers on there, they often are sensitive, in fact I did read this from a forum, they are commenting on it.
So to disgusted, I wasn’t talking about you ever, you misunderstood and your whole forum really gave me unnecessary garbage for nothing because I wrote down why you spin info doesn’t make me a stalker. I thought you were stalking me, I hate nintendo because I actually have every nintendo console until the gamecube and wii. I simple don’t like nintendo and I think the core gamers are gay. Really I haven’t met any nintendo core gamers that aren’t. However even if it’s true or not, it’s not important as you say, however gay ppl are often hostile.
However it’s funny how a graphic designer has the same views I did, he noticed something about his core audience. You can’t blame me for this, I didn’t design the box art, if other ppl noticed the same things. I hope it would bring awareness of the real stockers, friend codes were designed not for the new gamer audience, it’s for the core audience protecting the new audience from them.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:53 am
I wrote down the list of systems he favors, the wii 360 combo over the ps3 which I have at the time. I showed him that list and he acted all fearfully gay, he avoided me thinking I was a stalker. Hence, all nintendo core gamers tends to be gay. However I don’t care and i’m part of that christian coalition, if I was actually gay, they would of kicked me out of the chuch if I had any of those behaviors or tendencies, speech problems, which I don’t. I ask for peace and to stop with your nonsense, no one wants to stalk you, you got sensitive when I made fun of the wii and followed me around on the other forums, in which you stalked me. What makes you so special anyone would stalk you, are you a celebrity? Are you famous? no, who the heck are you? A typical wii360 gamer. I only want to bring awareness to others reading this and look, I choose peace, I say peace out to all the wii gamers, I have no more problems with you, since I try to stay away from negative ppl. It was my fault for insulting the wii, I was picking a fight with vicious delusional, out of touch of reality ppl. Peace and GG, i’m sorry you feel that way and maybe you would start to open your eyes and see how wrong you are.
About the graphic, hey, maybe the designer is gay, he’s accusing himself through others as I say, nothing new, it happens, it’s videogames, it’s the new expressive medium next to musicals for gay developers. Later and peace.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:16 am
Lol lol lol
mister gay :=)
September 21st, 2007 at 5:32 am
Lastly I am aware there is stuff I shouldn’t say and i’m not suppose to talk about, it’s okay let’s talk about it here since the cover is on topic. See what I mean? I didn’t even think about this individual, I insulted the wii and it’s audience, I meant millions of ppl actually no an individual, he follows me and starts commenting on it. I think in real life he seems like a geek, a nerd, a dork who probally gets teased and bullied so much. He thinks he’s really intellegent, he is a programmer, I was an artist myself, so he only knows half and I know only half. He wants to make videogames, I suppose your following the tradition of many others like you. In fact I drew fan art on other forums, I get the feeling he looks at my work and stuff, stalker, he knows me and there are other negative ppl like him, it’s not isolated to nintendo gamers who post on forums, however it’s mostly nintendo gamers that post on forums that is what I called homophobic, repressed, they act like phobes, it’s the best way to explain it, so repressed to a point where they blame others, punch ppl at a gay pride parade, those types. Sorry for typing so much I really can’t stand the coverup and this cover is really revealing it, I have to comment on it, don’t blame for anything, like an artist, I have the skills to observe parcularities. I also want to deal with that problem of that sensitive phobe, you can’t deny phobes do exist and most of them likes nintendo the most, they support them. Grow up, is my best suggestion and i’m not stupid where I would try to fight with your negativity, stop bothering me and next time I post on a nintendo topic like this, get out of my way, I don’t want to remember you I have my own agenda. I adressed most of the topics I need to and I agree with the box art.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:02 am
Maybe mario has become a German Bum saying “YAGR MR U”
September 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
win
September 21st, 2007 at 9:08 pm
LOL @ THIS
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 am
Are you positive it is “UR MR GAY” and “NOT UR MR AAY”? look @ the stars. Considering location of the stars relative to each other it would seem this is the one that makes little sense. So to me it looked off. Mr. AAY sounds like Myster-ehy(Fonzy accent included).
Just a possible conclusion to make, because it would be a bad photoshop joke for someone to make.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
I also disagree with the “UR MR GAY” theory. It seems to easy to be corrent, but as for Mr. A, I think it could be some form anagram.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:24 am
Look at an actual box, and you’ll see it is very different. This is photoshopped.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Go Duditz!
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 am
What about the big, flying dick in the foreground?
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
UNBELIVABLE!
September 26th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
>_>
Wow, This is just a sad attempt at insulting the most recognizable video game Mascot
5 Bucks says it’s some Sony Fanboy Otaku with too much time on their hands, and lack of creativity
September 29th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I don’t know Medina the Nintendo band has always seemed kinda…gay. Or just childish..
To the people that make comments like “get a life” or “who cares”. Shove it, grow a brain and learn to converse.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:37 am
DON’T TELL ANYONE!
THUMBS DOWN ON STUMBLEUPON!
DIGG DOWN!
MAKE SURE THIS GETS ONTO THE RETAIL BOX ART!
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:38 am
Anyone that knows what the word otaku means IS an otaku. Stop living in denial thar.
Yes i realize this applies to me.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
God you have no fucking life
October 8th, 2007 at 8:52 am
I reckon Nintendo added it xD
October 8th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
You all are making a deal out of nothing… That’s just the design. the glares on the letters are hardly noticeable. I don’t think it’s a subliminal message.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Who gives a shit? You were bored for 2 minutes and came up with this, but you failed so much.
I couldn’t care less about the boxart because I actually just want the GAME, but I don’t know about you.
November 5th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
ur fat and ugly eww this thing is for stupid lifeless people and have no life
November 5th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
every one should go get a job !! and stop playing games
November 5th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
for the rest of their lives
November 5th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
and i am not going to shove it and i do have a brain
November 9th, 2007 at 11:48 am
i see the point here
i also see the flying dick
November 10th, 2007 at 4:16 am
MARIO THINKS U R MR GAY…MARIO FTW!
November 10th, 2007 at 4:16 am
O_o
November 13th, 2007 at 2:17 am
omg…
wtf..?
this is hilarious… and some of you are insane…
especially emo stalker boy..?
how did u r mr. gay turn into the end of the world…
and eff you christian dick face…
gay people aren’t the end of the world…
people like you are…
November 16th, 2007 at 10:22 am
i am mr gay.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:18 am
When you start up the actual game, you’ll still see the U R M R G A Y message, the stars will be blinking on the letters.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
XD H’omg!
It’s so true. I guess my moms gay. o-o;
XD
Itza… legend. O.O *gasp*
November 28th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I know I’m two months late but IT DOES NOT SAY “SEX” IN THE LION KING; it says “SFX” as in “special effects”
November 29th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
That’s actually very weird.
December 4th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
im gay and i love nintendo leave me alone
December 4th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Lol, guess what. Turn on the game, and wait for the screen where it says Super Mario Galaxy (same as cover art) The stars twinkle only on the U, R, M, R, G, A, Y.. less of a coincidence much?
December 9th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Yeah I noticed it when I was walking past, It also says GAY In the stars, Look, Saddos at Nintendo!
December 9th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Okay it didnt work lol, http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q281/bobbojello/GAYThinglol.jpg that’s the link :)
December 9th, 2007 at 10:54 am
PS (It’s the UK cover with stars saying GAY)
December 9th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Ya sorry guys, but we are kinda gross and like adding sexual stuff to our games..
December 10th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
WOW, good read on this site, im having a rite giggle. But honestly, I really dont think Nintendo of all people meant to put U R MR GAY in a title of a Mario game, its just a big mistake. However a funny one at that.
But wats with that Christian guy? He’s nuts! W
December 10th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
*Sorry pressed enter to early
But wats with that Christian guy? He’s nuts! Ive been a Nintendo gamer since birth but I cn tell you now im not in slightest bit gay, as a matter of fact I can say ive been laid more times than he has with his stupid “no sex before marrage sh*t”. What a loser, he needs his head checked… NOW
December 11th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I am Roman Catholic and I love nintendo. That other christian guy sucks.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
And to the guy above my last comment, fuck you. “no sex before marrage sh*t” That isn’t nessesary. I agree with everything else but i’m sorry some of us have values.
Tony Out!!PS: This game is SWEET!!!!!!!!
December 11th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Maybe that christian dude was being sarcastic………If so I apologize for teasing you. If not then screw you.
December 13th, 2007 at 3:43 am
This made me LOL so hard.
I wonder if it was a mistake or a subliminal message?
Fucking epic.
December 27th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
i wonder if they will say something about it
if nintendo will be interviewed and questioned
December 27th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
relish
January 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am
ur gay and all of yall r gay for thinking mario is gay
February 8th, 2008 at 2:14 am
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!! ….. i guess i am like everyone else
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 am
marios the shit and everybody knows it!!!!!! x] bitches hahah
April 8th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Maybe, they don’t mean gay, as in a guy falling in love with a guy. Gay also means happy!
April 30th, 2009 at 6:30 am
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa nice
June 30th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
your all dumb a**es, why would nintendo put this on a box?
September 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
oshi-
December 8th, 2009 at 9:14 am
only concidence
February 17th, 2010 at 12:07 am
They better keep t for Super Mario Galaxy 2!
March 25th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
As a professional graphic designer, I have no doubt this was intentional. The best part about sneaking in such ‘mistakes’ is they will be seen as such and defended by fanboys as coincidence.
March 29th, 2010 at 8:36 am
that’s all bull shit of the church
May 6th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
LULZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
August 21st, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Not cool, Mario. Not cool.
August 21st, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Yes. I am Mr. Gay. And I’m proud of it. Mario, you bastard!
February 9th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
あなたはゲイ氏は. . .
これは間違いだった U U
O O
^
February 9th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
私は不思議ではこれが間違いだったです
June 7th, 2011 at 3:54 am
I love this, I wish they’d make it a tradition to hide something in every Mario cover.