The phrase Bing Bing Wahoo comes from Super Mario 64, released in 1996, where Charles Martinet voiced Mario with short exclamations like wahoo and yippee. Online, especially on gaming forums in the 2010s, users typed bing bing wahoo to imitate and gently mock the sound of Mario jumping and collecting coins. It became shorthand for dismissing Nintendo games as childish, then was reclaimed by fans as an ironic meme. Edited audio compilations of the vocalizations followed, turning the written joke into an actual sound clip shared in videos and soundboards.