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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I learned that the "little goombas" from Super Mario Bros. were actually "chestnut men" at first. It's completely changed my world view.
Although I think they Nintendo went with it and says they are mushrooms now.
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Goombas were created because Nintendo wanted to recycle the mushroom sprite as an enemy to save money, they were probably afraid calling them mushroom men would make them look lazy. There's a lot of sprite recycling in the first mario game: clouds = bushes, 10 different kinds of turtles, etc.