The sound comes from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, released for GameCube in 2002 in Japan and 2003 internationally. Its most memorable use is Sploosh Kaboom, Salvatore's squid-hunting mini-game on Windfall Island, a Battleship-style board where a successful shot triggers the blast and the word Kaboom. Clips and rips of the mini-game circulated on YouTube and soundboards, and editors kept reusing the short, clean explosion outside the game as a meme hit marker, which is why the Wind Waker name stuck to it.