Red Dead Redemption - Irish

A lazy, lying, gregarious drunk with a thick Irish accent, actually named "Irish" in Red Dead Redemption, captures a whole lot of negative stereotypes about Irish immigrants during the days of the wild West. Irish is grouped with a few other characters who are named by their countries of origin, but none are so grossly cliche as Irish himself. It's just a reminder that every subset of people, no matter how you choose to divide them, have seen some kind of prejudice in their history. But it's not a reminder that you want while playing video games.

Pokemon - Jynx

Any Pokemon that showed up after the original 151 are just worthless piles of trash, but there's one OG Pokemon that should have probably also been left out. Jynx escaped scrutiny in the original Game Boy game series because it was hard to offend with a few green pixels, but Jynx's appearance was later deemed offensive enough to have certain episodes of Pokemon banned in the US. The creature bears a striking similarity to some deeply racist 1940s cartoons, where the character probably took its inspiration, and is known for its "rhythm." Draw your own conclusions from there, and never look at Pokemon the same way again.

Punch-Out!! - Everyone

There really isn't a single character in Punch-Out!! that isn't some kind of racial stereotype. One might think that the cultural evolution between the original 1984 version and the latest 2009 version would have fixed some of these problems, but they only got worse; King Hippo is a morbidly obese Polynesian who drops pineapples when you punch him; Glass Joe is a notoriously weak and cowardly French guy who drops croissants when you punch him; even Bear Hugger is a lampoon of Canadian people, guzzling maple syrup, talking about hockey, and being surprisingly nice to Little Mac, despite clobbering him. How these things survive in a PC world is a mystery. But at least Punch-Out!! is a great game, if you can ignore the magic Indian turbans.

Nintendo's dumbest products

In the glow of nostalgia, your old Nintendo was always a welcoming beacon, quietly waiting for you after school to quell all of your daily anxieties with Zeldas and Castlevanias. But in reality, Nintendo has always been a pretty serious company—with some pretty serious problems figuring out what products they might want to keep off the store shelves. Even though Nintendo has a great history of successes and is synonymous with video gaming, these days it's often considered a niche company for low-spec family gaming while other systems pass it by on many levels. As Nintendo's relevance seems threatened more every day, we have to ask: just which products have set Nintendo back the most?