The line comes from Pokemon Stadium, the Nintendo 64 battle game released in Japan in 1999 and internationally in 2000, which added live style announcer commentary to Pokemon fights. Unlike the handheld games, its matches were narrated move by move, with stock phrases for the state of the battle. Short clips of that commentary later circulated on soundboards and in gaming edits, where this evenly matched call survived as a reusable reaction for tied scores, versus debates and nostalgia posts about the Stadium era.