Mini Goomba: Difference between revisions

|derived_species=[[Gold Goomba (Mini Goomba)]]<br>[[Pile Driver Micro-Goomba]]<br>[[Small Goomba Gang]]<br>[[Small Goomba Wheel]]

|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]])

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'''Mini Goombas'''<ref>Loe, Casey. ''New Super Mario Bros.'' Player's Guide. Page 10.</ref><ref>Bueno, Fernando. ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 14.</ref><ref>von Esmarch, Nick. ''New Super Mario Bros. 2'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 21.</ref><ref>Stratton, Steve. ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 33.</ref><ref>Musa, Alexander, and Geson Hatchett. ''Super Mario 3D World'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 23.</ref><ref>Walsh, Doug, and Joe Epstein. ''Super Mario Odyssey'' Prima Collector's Edition Guide. Page 346.</ref>, originally known as '''Micro-Goombas'''<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' English instruction booklet, page 35</ref> and also formatted as '''Micro Goombas'''<ref>"''Boy, if that Micro Goomba hadn't dashed out just as I jumped for that platform...''" - [[Shayde]], ''Super Paper Mario''</ref><ref>"''The most miniscule meanies that you'll come across in any Super Mario adventure are Super Mario Bros. 3's Micro Goombas, Baby Bloopers and Baby Cheeps, measuring only eight pixels by eight pixels.''" - Nintendo ''Mario Mania'' Player's Guide, page 156.</ref>, and also occasionally referred to as '''Goombettes''' or '''Small Goombas''', are miniature [[Goomba]]s that are featured throughout different installments of the [[Mario (franchise)|''Mario'' franchise]]. They look like regular Goombas, being brown vaguely humanoid mushrooms, albeit they are notably smaller in size. Their main purpose is usually to slow down the players or otherwise impede their progress. They first appeared in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''.