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The name of a muscular construction worker character who first appeared in the 1984 video game 'Wrecking Crew' has been officially changed for all audiences, Nintendo has announced.

Japanese video game company Nintendo announced that a character originally called"Blackie" has been renamed"Spike."

One of them is a character, Foreman Spike , who originally appeared in the 1984 video game"Wrecking Crew" and is depicted as a muscular, White construction worker with black facial hair. "The name of the character ‘Blackie’ that appears in the family computer software ‘Wrecking Crew’ will be changed to ‘Spike’, which is the same as the name in Europe and the United States," the official Nintendo account tweeted.Japanese video game company Nintendo has announced that a character originally called"Blackie" has been renamed to"Spike".

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