The Sega Saturn was Sega's 32-bit home console, first released in Japan in 1994 and in North America and Europe the following year. Every time the machine started, it played this brief startup sound over its animated logo screen before loading a game disc. As retro gaming grew online, clips of the boot sequence were shared in reviews, console comparisons and nostalgia compilations, keeping the sound familiar long after the console left shops. Today it works as a quick shorthand for mid-nineties gaming and Sega's fifth-generation era.