How Super Mario 64 Fixed Princess Peach’s Ad-Agency Induced Naming Mishap

“It was my idea to say, ‘Why don’t we call her Princess Peach Toadstool?'”.

While most people today know Mario’s pink-dress-wearing, royal love interest under the name Princess Peach, this wasn’t always the case.

Prior to the release of Super Mario 64, for instance, most people in the West referred to the princess by another name instead, Princess Toadstool, with only the occasional piece of Mario media (such as Yoshi’s Safari) referring to her by her original Japanese name.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“It was my idea to say, ‘Why don’t we call her Princess Peach Toadstool?'”.

While most people today know Mario’s pink-dress-wearing, royal love interest under the name Princess Peach, this wasn’t always the case.

Prior to the release of Super Mario 64, for instance, most people in the West referred to the princess by another name instead, Princess Toadstool, with only the occasional piece of Mario media (such as Yoshi’s Safari) referring to her by her original Japanese name.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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