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Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?

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137 points glhaynes | 1 comments | 17 Jun 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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toast0 ◴[17 Jun 24 21:04 UTC] No.40711059[source]▶
> After all, this would be like if Nintendo re-released a Super Mario game and swapped out Princess Peach for a Princess Pineapple or Princess Pumpkin and just acted like it wasn’t weird.

Yeah, that'd be weird, but swapping Princess Peach for Princess Toadstool was fine?

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entropicdrifter ◴[17 Jun 24 21:14 UTC] No.40711138[source]▶
Mario 64 attempted to bridge this gap. Her last name is Toadstool (or maybe it's her title?) and her first name is Peach.

What really happened, IIRC is that she was Princess Peach in the Japanese games and in the original translations they called her Princess Toadstool

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1. NeoTar ◴[17 Jun 24 21:21 UTC] No.40711217[source]▶
Very much like Dr Robotnik (western) becoming Dr. Eggman (Japanese) in Sonic titles since the late 90’s. In this case Eggman is played as an offensive nickname Sonic has given Dr. Robotnik.