Wii Sports was released by Nintendo for the Wii console in 2006 and became one of the console's defining titles, introducing motion-controlled tennis, bowling, golf, baseball and boxing to a huge mainstream audience. Its clean menu sounds, ball hits, strikes and crowd reactions became instantly familiar through living-room play and later through gameplay videos, streams and memes. Because the sounds are short, cheerful and tied to friendly competition, creators still reuse them to signal nostalgia, a light-hearted win or a playful fail.