Super Mario 64: l’ex capo responsabile della localizzazione rivela l’origine del nome della Principessa Peach
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Qualche ora fa sono emerse nuove informazioni riguardanti l’origine del nome della Principessa Peach in Occidente.
Leslie Swan, ex responsabile della localizzazione di Nintendo of America, ha infatti rilasciato delle dichiarazioni a Time Extension, in merito all’origine del nome “Princess Peach Toadstool” in Super Mario 64.
“Well, one thing that I thought was really funny was, in the early days, there wasn’t a lot of communication between the dev teams and what we were doing from a marketing standpoint in the United States.
So on Super Mario Bros. they had outsourced the production of the manual to an ad agency. And the ad agency just kind of created names for things. And so they’re the ones who came up with Princess Toadstool as the name for Peach.
So when I went over and I was working on the localization, I would sit with Mr. Miyamoto and a translator and they would be going over the changes I had made and I would explain why I was making the changes, and one day, Mr. Miyamoto just said, ‘Is Peach a bad name?’ And I had to tell him, ‘No, but you know she is called Princess Toadstool in the US’. I remember he said, ‘Well, I really like Peach as her name’. So I came up with the idea to say, ‘Why don’t we call her Princess Peach Toadstool?’ Then we could refer to her informally as Peach.”
Come forse ricorderete, se siete dei vecchiacci come me, nella versione giapponese di Super Mario Bros., il personaggio era semplicemente conosciuto come Principessa Peach.
Successivamente però, fu adattato per la versione statunitense in Princess Toadstool, a causa dell’agenzia pubblicitaria che creato il nome di propria iniziativa. Shigeru Miyamoto fu coinvolto nella discussione, essendo anche fan lui stesso della principessa, decidendo così il nome formale “Princess Peach Toadstool”, tenendo Peach come nome informale.
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