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"All your base are belong to us" (sometimes abbreviated AYBABTU or simply AYB) is a phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon that occurred in 2001 and 2002. The phenomenon initially took the form of the sentence appearing on website message boards. Many images were digitally altered so that the phrase was added in, either obviously or discreetly. Eventually these were collected together onto one site and a Flash animation produced from them, which was widely downloaded.
The phrase arose from a poor translation used in the English version of the Japanese video game Zero Wing, originally produced by Toaplan in 1989. The infamous quotes were taken from the European localization of the Sega Megadrive port released in 1992. The arcade version of Zero Wing does not include the quote, nor any other dialogue; the intro for the PC EngineThe PC Engine was a video game console released by NEC, a Japanese company, in 1987. For more information on the North American version of the system, see: Turbografx 16. The PC Engine used cards instead of cartridges to hold its games, and while its proc version has CDCD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD . A compact disc (or CD is an optical disc used for storing digital data. It was originally invented for digital audio and is also used as a data storage device, a CD-ROM. CD-ROM reading devices are a st quality spoken dialogue, but has a completely different introduction. Zero Wing was never released in North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea, and therefore never came to the Sega GenesisThe Sega Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by SEGA in North America in 1989. Outside of the U. the console was known as the Sega Megadrive. It succeeded the 8-bit Sega Master System and was one of the main contenders in the console wars of, the North American Megadrive.
All Your Base was interesting in that it demonstrated the power of the Internet to quickly spread idiosyncratic messages that would never have been covered by the traditional mass media. Although the fad has since died down, the phrase continues to be one of the most commonly quoted examples of " EngrishTokyo in the year 2000 Engrish is a slang term which refers to an English language phrase that arose through poor translation from another language (usually Japanese), or sometimes, to poor translation of English into another language followed by good tra".
The phrase is a line from the game's introductory cut sceneA cut scene or cutscene is an animated sequence in a video game over which the player has no control. Cut scenes are used to advance the plot, portray character, and provide background information, atmosphere, dialogue and clues. The earliest video game k, which is subtitled and poorly translatedTokyo in the year 2000 Engrish is a slang term which refers to an English language phrase that arose through poor translation from another language (usually Japanese), or sometimes, to poor translation of English into another language followed by good tra. It made its first appearance on the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu in 1998. During mid-to-late 2000, the phrase began appearing in the forums of Something Awful. In 2000, Canadian Gabber group The Laziest Men on Mars created the song "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" using samples from the game theme by Tatsuya Uemura (including a robotic voice synthesis rendition of the complete cut-scene dialogue, which by some accounts caused mp3.com to temporarily remove the track from their servers for perceived copyright violation).
By the second half of February 2001 a huge number of altered pictures, GIF animations, and Macromedia Flash animations swept over the Internet, the first being the twelfth episode of Eskimo Bob, in what creators Tomas and Alan Guinan later declared their worst episode to date, going so far as to post warnings advising people not to watch it. The phenomenon was then fueled primarily by an online music video by someone named "Bad_CRC" for "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" — and just as suddenly seemed to slow to a crawl. It has been used as a caption for almost any photograph since the heavily overloaded word " base" (along with homonyms such as bass and compounds like base pair) seemed to make the phrase mean almost anything. Numerous persons and groups also replaced the word "base" with other topics (e.g. "all your data are belong to us," "all your vote are belong to us"), generally suggesting someone's aggressive dominance in a particular field.
The cut scene transcript goes as follows: