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: ...

Miri is a creative writer with a passion for gaming and animation. She started gaming way back in 1994 on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis and has been a console gamer ever since. She's currently a ...

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 ...

After completing all of the plays in floors 15 in Sparkle Theater, as well as saving all of the Sparklas in the Basement levels, the door to the final boss will appear. At first, the Sparkle Gems ...

Princess Peach just doesn’t get enough credit. I say that as someone who was saved multiple times as a young gamer by Peach’s gliding jump in the U.S. version of Super Mario Bros. 2 and also loved her ...

Despite being the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach has always played a supporting role in Nintendo’s games. She’s normally the one rescued or a playable character in an ensemble adventure ...

Samantha Kelly, the actor who voiced Princess Peach and other iconic names in the Mushroom Kingdom for 17 years, apparently only found out that she had been recast in the role on the same day that ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...