GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Nintendo's star heroine wasn't always named Princess Peach, and for ...

The princess who Mario regularly rescues from evil dragon-turtle kidnappings is named Peach, right? The earliest generation of English-speaking Nintendo fans might have had a different answer to that ...

Princess Peach made her debut as the damsel in distress in Super Mario Bros., but in the American release of the game, she was called “Princess Toadstool” instead of Peach, supposedly because Nintendo ...

Long before Princess Peach became Princess Peach, she was known as Princess Toadstool, at least in English-localized versions of Nintendo games. She first appeared in 1985's Super Mario Bros. on the ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. 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: ...