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Mario Chat / Re: Mariology (serious posts wanted)

« on: November 15, 2010, 03:55:30 PM »

Hi, guys! I'm a newbie. :)

Anyhoo:

Anyway. Nintendo of America is dumb, so they decided to change Peach's name to Toadstool when the original SMB came out to fit with the whole "Mushroom" theme. Eventually they wised up and realized that Peach is a way cooler name.

Why is everyone always so quick to hate on Nintendo of America? They've made some decent contributions to the Mario franchise (Mario's Time Machine not being one of them, but still). Fun Fact: Did you know that it was Nintendo of America who gave Mario his name (after deciding to change it from Jumpman)?

Bowser has always been Bowser's American name though. They didn't ever change it here. It's always been Koopa in Japan and it's always been Bowser here. (A lot of people seem to think he was Koopa in SMB, but the manual clearly calls him Bowser. I guess whoever made the cartoons wasn't paying attention.)

I just looked through the SMB instruction manual and, wow... I had never noticed that! Good eye!