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The All-Cup Tour is a special tour that allows you to play all 16 courses at once in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! You start out at Luigi Circuit and work your way around the tour to the last course, Rainbow Road.
Amiibo is Nintendo's NFC figurine and card program that works across multiple games. Amiibo work natively with the Nintendo Wii U via the NFC reader in the Wii U GamePad and the New Nintendo 3DS. In 2015, Nintendo will release an accessory for the original Nintendo 3DS that lets players use Amiibo on it as well.
Mario Sports Mix and Mario Hoops 3-on-3 feature Peach playing basketball.
A character who attacks with their buttocks. Most common in fighting games. Not to be confused with the act of attacking somebody's butt.
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
Several games feature Peach growing herself to gigantic sizes.
Charging is the action of pressing & holding down a button or particular direction on the controller. Its purpose is to build up a powerful blast or burst of energy to take out an opponent or cause critical damage.
Some games allow you to attack your opponents during a race.
Video game controversy revolves mostly around the psychological effects that games with graphic violence or sexual content in them can have on players. Other sources of controversy can range from racism, sexism, politics, or religion.
In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Peach must team up with one of the other playable characters to race.
When characters shed tears - often due to extreme sadness.
Peach most often ends up playing the role of the damsel in distress in the Mario series.
The process of fighting, but with dance.
The ability to dodge an attack, making the player untouchable for a brief period.
A double jump is the ability to jump while already in mid-air to get some extra lift. In reality, double jumps are not possible and violate fundamental laws of physics.
Several games allow Peach to throw her enemies around.
Peach is a playable character in BS Excitebike Bun Bun Mario Stadium.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
A phenomenon by which one or more aspects of a character are exaggerated to the point of becoming a much bigger and more pronounced part of their identity than they previously were, even to the point of becoming the character's defining characteristic. Named after The Simpsons character Ned Flanders, who in-between the show's earliest and latest seasons had his religious background exaggerated to the point of becoming an intolerant Fundamentalist.
In many Mario spinoffs, such as the Mario Party and Mario Kart series, Peach can both flatten and be flattened through a variety of methods. She is also paper flat in the Paper Mario series.
A form of racing designed to test the car and driver's skill and endurance. It evolved into closed circuit racing like modern Formula 1 and MotoGP. Even the Mario Kart series has it.
Games featuring guests introduce playable, established characters from outside of a franchise. Primarily but not exclusively seen in fighting games.
Special or stronger units than standard ones, usually found in strategy games. This is not necessarily the same thing as a superhero or a game's protagonist.
Mario Sports Mix features Peach playing hockey.
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's inside story, Peach is among the characters that get sucked inside Bowser's body.
The Mario Kart series, Super Smash Bros. series, and Super Mario Bros. 2 show Peach throwing items,
Peach is a playable character in the Mario Kart series.
As the damsel in distress of the Mario series, Peach is commonly kidnapped by Bowser or other enemies.
The act of pressing your lips against someone or something else as a sign of affection.
In Super Mario RPG, Mario and his party, Peach being a member, are made honorary members of the Koopa Troop.
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