The original jingle comes from Nintendo's GameCube, the purple cube-shaped console released in the early 2000s, where it played every time the system powered on and became instantly recognisable to a generation of players. Fans and meme editors have since remixed that startup sound in countless ways, speeding it up, reversing it and dropping it into short videos to signal nostalgia, chaos or a joke going backwards. This fast reversed version keeps the melody just recognisable enough for the twist to land, which is why retro gaming edits still reuse it.