The Victory Fanfare was composed by Nobuo Uematsu for the original Final Fantasy, released by Square in Japan in 1987, and it returned in new arrangements across the long-running role-playing series. Hearing it after every won battle made the melody inseparable from progress and reward for generations of players. Online, fans reused it in gameplay edits, reaction videos and celebration memes, so the fanfare now marks any small real-life victory, from fixing a bug to winning an argument.