Super Mario 64 was released in 1996 as a launch title for the Nintendo 64 and introduced many players to fully three-dimensional Mario platforming, with Bob-omb Battlefield as its opening course. Bob-ombs, walking bombs that had already appeared in earlier Mario games, became one of its most recognisable enemies there. Short clips from the game later spread through online edits, gaming streams and soundboards, where the Bob-Omb sound became shorthand for cartoon chaos and impending explosions, keeping it familiar to new generations of players.