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SanAndreasX on 12 April 2015
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Airaku said:
SanAndreasX said:

You are correct. He was called Bowser in the first SMB game ("Bowser, King of the Koopas.") People probably called him King Koopa mostly from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, where he was called King Koopa.

Like most other entertainment companies, Nintendo has gone through periods of standardizing the looks and names of its trademarked characters. They didn't have the standards they do now for their IPs until the late 1990s, and until the 1990s, Mario didn't even have a standardized appearance like he does now. In Super Mario 64, the Princess's name was being transistioned from "Princess Toadstool" to "Princess Peach", which is her official name now.

 


Well actually believe it or not Princess Peach was always named Princess Peach in the Japaness version. It is true she was named princess Toadstool in the English version. That is actually even stated on her wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess Peach. I've actually heard a lot of fans simply call her Peach Toadstool and people treat it as her last name. Though I don't think that has ever been referred in the canon. Then there is the Paulina debate as well of course. A totally different character or complete character overhaul?

I knew that, but I was talking about the US, which was an example of how Nintendo didn't have the same standards for consistency in its IP as far as names and such go that they do now. I imagine Nintendo of America called her Princess Toadstool to keep with the theme of the Mushroom Kingdom and so it would make more sense to Americans. The last game I know of where she was consistently called Princess Toadstool was Super Mario RPG, and in Super Mario 64, she was called both in the intro.

Pauline... back in that day, Mario was simply called Jumpman in Japan. Miyamoto only intended him to be an all-purpose plug-in character like Pac-Man and never had any intention of calling him anything but Jumpman. He got his "Mario" name from Minoru Arakawa after Mario Segale (Nintendo's landlord in Washington) came storming into a Nintendo board meeting demanding overdue rent. I'm guessing that Pauline was a prototype for Peach and became a princess when Mario moved into fantasy territory.

On-topic, Awakening is more consistent with the overall design of Fire Emblem than people think it is. But because a lot of people were introduced to the series through the Gamecube and Wii games, it looks radically different and they perceive it as following in the "moe" direction a lot of RPGs have taken in recent years.