The US Environmental Protection Agency stole music from a Nintendo title to play in the background of an educational flash game, according to GameInformer.
The EPA’s Recycle City Challenge takes players through several scenarios and asks them questions like “What’s in a zero waste lunch?” or how can a café “upgrade their lights?” Children would select the most energy efficient answers and win tokens if they got them correct. But seasoned Nintendo-lovers will recognize a familiar tune from Yoshi’s Island DS playing in the background of the game.
A spokesperson for the EPA confirmed that the song was used and has since been removed from the game.
“The ‘Recycle City Challenge’ game was created for EPA by a contractor,” an EPA spokesperson…
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