Goombas first appeared in Super Mario Bros, released by Nintendo in 1985 for the NES, as the most basic enemy Mario encounters. Jumping on one became the defining early interaction of the game, and its short squish sound became instantly familiar to players. As Mario clips spread through YouTube, streaming and short form video, creators lifted the stomp as a standalone punchline for any small defeat. Its brevity, clean retro tone and universal recognition keep it in regular use decades after the original game.
About this sound
The classic stomp sound effect from Super Mario Bros, the short squish noise when Mario jumps on a Goomba, used in gaming edits and retro memes.
This is the brief squish that plays when a Goomba is stomped in Super Mario Bros. Lasting less than a second, it is a soft, flat pop with a quick downward pitch that instantly reads as a small enemy being flattened. The sound is unmistakably retro, tied to the 8-bit era, and it lands as comic rather than violent. Viewers recognise it immediately and understand that something has been comically defeated, which is why it works even when placed over completely unrelated footage in edits and memes.
