Shenmue is Sega's story-driven adventure series that debuted on the Dreamcast in 1999, famous for its detailed world and everyday NPC dialogue. Lines like this one survive because fans rip tiny, quotable moments from long playthroughs and share them as reaction clips. As a one-second observation about having no money, it fits the broke-joke niche that gamers reuse in edits, streams and chat soundboards. It belongs to the same family of short game meme sounds like the GTA V notification, where a brief in-game audio cue becomes a reusable punchline.