Poor Princess Peach! Created by Nintendo's misogynist game designers to be the perpetual damsel in distress, even her first game outing is testament to feminine hysteria. While Mario can squish evil anthropomorphic mushrooms by bouncing on their heads, spit fireballs, jump around in a giant wind-up boot and even excrete a racoon's tail from his bottom and use it to fly, Princess Peach's powers are the same as all women's: the ability to weep uncontrollably or erupt into rage at the flimsiest of excuses. Is this blatant Nintendo chauvinism what Susan B. Anthony K.O.ed Hitler for?

On that note, Toybane has done a comparison between the original Japanese box art for Super Princess Peach on the Nintendo DS and its American counterpart. As it turns out, while the Japanese cover captures Princess Peach in the middle of a full-on episode of hysteria, the American box art is a lot less misogynistic, doing its damnedest to portray Peach as a bubblegum pink, Sigourney-Weaver-type heroine.

Super Princess Peach & The Male Gaze Part 1: A Portrait of a Distressed Damsel [Toybane]
Related: Super Princess Peach: One Moody Game

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