For the next week or so I will be announcing my ultimate 5 Mario side characters, and Princess Peach is number 5. Sure, some may disagree and protest that she deserved to be at least in the top 3, but I was tempted to say Birdo was better than her, because she never learns that what she really needs is a team of buff toads to be her bodyguard team!
Anyway, Princess Peach is one of the first Mario characters. Although in Donkey Kong, Mario's first game, he had to save Pauline, Nintendo decided they needed a character with more depth to appear in Super Mario Bros. So, Shigeru Miyamoto went hard at work making a new character for Mario to save, and came up with Princess Peach, probably the most generic Princess in gaming history.
Since then Peach has appeared in many Mario themed games, including Mario Kart, every Mario themed platformer and all the Mario sports games, making her one of the most recognisable figures in gaming. She even has her own game on the DS, called Super Princess Peach, but I wouldn't recommend it unless your a die hard fan.
Tune in tomorrow for number 4- Who will it be?
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