All your base are belong to us

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The phrase is a piece of subtitled dialogue from the introduction to Zero Wing.

"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that was central to an Internet phenomenon, or meme, in 2000-2002, with the spread of a Flash animation that depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing,[1] a Japanese video game by Toaplan which was poorly translated by Sega of Europe. It was popularized by the Something Awful message forums.[2] The line Captain: For great justice is often replicated as a secondary meme, with the phrase for great justice applied to an ordinary or inappropriate action.

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[edit] Transcript and translations

[edit] Game transcript

A summarized GIF animation of the scene.
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.

* This line and those following it are not in some animated GIF/Flash versions seen on the Internet.

[edit] Comparison with Original Japanese

It appears from the original text that CATS may be the name of an organization, not just of the particular cyborg villain appearing on the screen.[1]

Original Japanese Text Game Transcript Correct Translation
西暦2101年 In A.D. 2101 AD 2101―
戦いは始まった。 War was Beginning. War has begun.
艦長：一体どうしたと言んだ [sic]！ Captain: What happen ? Captain: What happened?
機関士：何者かによって、爆発物が仕掛けられたようです。 Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Engineer: An unknown assailant has planted an explosive device!
通信士：艦長！通信が入りました！ Operator: We get signal. Communication operator: Captain! We have received a transmission!
艦長：なにっ！ Captain: What ! Captain: What?!
通信士：メインスクリーンにビジョンが来ます。 Operator: Main screen turn on. Communication operator: Incoming visual on the main screen.
艦長：おっお前は！！ Captain: It's you !! Captain: I...It's you!
CATS：おいそがしそうだね、諸君。 CATS: How are you gentlemen !! CATS: You seem busy, gentlemen.
CATS：連邦政府軍のご協力により、君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた。 CATS: All your base are belong to us. CATS: With the help of the Federation Government forces, CATS has taken all of your bases.
CATS：君達の艦も、そろそろ終わりだろう。 CATS: You are on the way to destruction. CATS: Your ship is about to meet its doom as well.
艦長：ばっばかなっ・・・！ Captain: What you say !! Captain: It...it can't be...!
CATS：君達のご協力には感謝する。   CATS: We are grateful for your cooperation.
CATS：せいぜい残り少ない命を、大切にしたまえ・・・・。 CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time. CATS: Cherish these few remaining moments of your lives.
CATS：ハッハッハッハッハッ・・・ CATS: Ha ha ha ha.... CATS: Ha ha ha ha ha...
通信士：艦長・・・。 Operator: Captain !! Communication operator: Captain....
艦長：ZIG全機に発進命令！！ Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!! Captain: I order you to launch all ZIG units!
艦長：もう彼らに託すしかない・・。 Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: We have no choice but to entrust to them....
艦長：我々の未来に希望を・・・ Captain: Move 'ZIG'. Captain: Our hopes for our future...
艦長：たのむぞ。ZIG！！ Captain: For great justice. Captain: We're counting on you, ZIG!

[edit] History

The phrase on U.S. Route 50 in Nevada

The phrase or some variation of lines from the game has appeared in numerous articles, books, comics, clothing, movies, radio shows, songs, television shows, video games, webcomics, and websites. Notable mentions include:

  • In late 2000, Kansas City computer programmer and part-time DJ Jeffrey Ray Roberts, then aged 23, from the Gabber band The Laziest Men on Mars made a techno dance track, "Invasion of the Gabber Robots", which remixed some of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura with a voiceover phrase "All your base are belong to us."[3]
  • On February 23, 2001, Wired provided an early report on the phenomenon, covering it from the Flash animation to its spread through e-mail and Internet forums to T-shirts bearing the phrase.[4]
  • On April 1, 2003, in Sturgis, Michigan, seven people aged 17 to 20 placed signs all over town that read, "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time." They claimed to be playing an April Fool's joke, but most people who saw the signs were unfamiliar with the phrase. Many residents were upset that the signs appeared while the U.S. was at war with Iraq, and police chief Eugene Alli said the signs could be "a borderline terrorist threat depending on what someone interprets it to mean."[5]
  • In February 2004, North Carolina State University students and members of The Wolf Web in Raleigh, North Carolina exploited a web-based service provided for local schools and businesses to report a weather-related closing to display the phrase within a news ticker on a live news broadcast on News 14 Carolina.[6]
  • On June 1, 2006, the video hosting website YouTube was taken down temporarily for maintenance. The phrase "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" appeared below the YouTube logo as a placeholder while the site was down. Some users believed the site had been hacked, leading the host to add the message "No, we haven't been hacked. Get a sense of humor."[7]
  • On June 15 and 16, 2009, the comic Get Fuzzy made a joke reference with the line "All Your Treat are Belong to Us".[8][9]


[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Alex Tufty Ashman (2007-02-13). "All Your Base Are Belong To Us". h2g2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A19147205. Retrieved on 2008-02-04. 
  2. ^ Julian Dibbell (2008-01-18). "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World". Wired. p. 2. http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=2. Retrieved on 2008-01-18. 
  3. ^ Taylor, Chris (2001-02-25). "All Your Base Are Belong To Us". http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,100525,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-29. 
  4. ^ Benner, Jeffrey (2001-02-23). "When Gamer Humor Attacks". http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/02/42009. Retrieved on 2006-05-15. 
  5. ^ Holly Doyle. "Men arrested for “All Your Base” prank". http://www.wwmt.com/news/sturgis-468-security-thought.html. Retrieved on 2009-07-10. 
  6. ^ Poulsen, Kevin (2004-03-05). "Wags hijack TV channel's on-screen ticker". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/wags_hijack_tv_channels_onscreen/. Retrieved on 2006-05-15. 
  7. ^ Sandoval, Greg (2006-06-02). "YouTube: Our humor, not our hack". CNET News.com. http://news.cnet.com/YouTube-Humor,-not-hack/2100-1026_3-6079314.html. Retrieved on 2006-06-02. 
  8. ^ Darby Conley. "Get Fuzzy (June 15, 2009)". http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2009-06-15/. Retrieved on 2009-06-16. 
  9. ^ Darby Conley. "Get Fuzzy (June 16, 2009)". http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2009-06-16/. Retrieved on 2009-06-16. 

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