Princess Peach's "Toadstool" Name Was Randomly Implemented by a U.S. ad Agency

How Did Princess Peach Get The Name Of Princess Toadstool?

Typically, the video game industry creates names for characters and then sticks with them throughout their lives. The only times you see changes is through localization, like when Capcom made Rockman, and he was localized elsewhere as Mega Man. It was the right call. A lesser-known localization change has to do with the beloved Nintendo [...] The post How Did Princess Peach Get The Name Of Princess Toadstool? first appeared on The Outerhaven.

Omnihanded Entertainmet News | Princess Peach’s Toadstool Name Was Invented By A Surprising Source

Nintendo’s star heroine wasn’t always named Princess Peach, and for many years prior to the release of Super Mario 64 went by a different name: Princess Toadstool. Now, fans know the reason why, and it wasn’t because of any decision Nintendo made.In an interview with Time Extension, Nintendo veteran Leslie Swan, who over the course of her nearly three-decade career helped localize countless Nintendo classics, wrote for Nintendo Power magazine, a…

Former Nintendo localization manager reveals origins of Princess Peach's Toadstool name

Leslie Swan, a former localization manager at Nintendo of America who spent nearly three decades at the company, has spoken about how Princess Peach’s “Toadstool” name came to be. In the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros., the character was simply known as Princess Peach. However, for the U.S. version, it changed to Princess Toadstool. It turns out that this... The post Former Nintendo localization manager reveals origins of Princess Peach’s …

Princess Peach's "Toadstool" name was randomly implemented by a U.S. ad agency

So...not by royal decree?

Nintendo veteran says an "ad agency" created the alternate Princess Peach name that confused US fans for years, and it was only fixed for Super Mario 64 because Miyamoto liked "Peach" so much

Yours truly, Princess Toadstool

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…