Super Mario 64, released for the Nintendo 64 in 1996, made warp pipes and hidden portals a central part of Mario's first fully three-dimensional adventure. The short warp effect accompanies those sudden jumps between worlds, and players soon associated its rising electronic swirl with leaving one area and arriving in another. As clips from the game were shared online, the sound was ripped for soundboards and reused in gameplay videos, speedruns and memes. It remains popular because it is instantly recognisable, very short, and works as a universal shorthand for teleporting.