Games Drop Swastikas, Star of David

Swastikas and a Star of David will be deleted from two companies’ computer games after the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith complained, the games’ makers said.

A spokeswoman for the New York-based ADL said the league contacted NEC Technologies and Nintendo of America earlier this year asking that the symbols be removed from two computer games and an instruction booklet.

“In letters to ADL, both companies informed the league that they had taken action to have the offensive symbols removed,” spokeswoman Barbara Walden said.

Walden said NEC’s “Syber Corp” game uses swastikas as weapons in action scenes. The object of its “Neutopia” game is to destroy “bosses,” one of whom wears the six-pointed Star of David on his chest.

She said Nintendo’s “Legend of Zelda” has a swastika in its instruction booklet.