Hotel Mario was released in 1994 for the Philips CD-i, a licensed Nintendo game made outside Nintendo's own studios. Its animated cutscenes later became a staple of early YouTube Poop videos in the mid-2000s, where editors remixed Mario's lines into short reaction clips. This brief denial survived because it is clean, recognisable and easy to isolate from the dialogue. It still circulates alongside similar refusal sounds like the nope clip, as gamers keep using CD-i Mario lines as shorthand for an instant, joking rejection in edits and streams.