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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"^{[citation needed]}, or simply "AYB"^{[citation needed]}) is a broken English phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of a Flash animation that depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the European Sega Mega Drive version of Zero Wing,^[1] a Japanese video game by Toaplan. Its brief but intense popularity derived from its poor translation into English and its near-accidental adoption by a group of Internet humorists. Originated from Something Awful,^[2] "All Your Base" is still a well-known reference among gamers. Image File history File links 書.svg‎ The Chinese character 書, in regular script. ... The UTF-8-encoded Japanese Wikipedia article for mojibake, as displayed in ISO-8859-1 encoding. ... Japanese writing Kanji Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Manyōgana Uses Furigana Okurigana Rōmaji   ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana (片仮名), and the Arabic numerals. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Manyogana 万葉仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 For other meanings of Kana, see Kana (disambiguation). ... png version of All your base are belong to us This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ... Zero Wing is a 1989 Japanese shoot em up arcade game developed by Toaplan. ... Broken English is an album by Marianne Faithfull, released in 1979. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Simple animation in Flash MX; a square moving across the screen in a motion tween, one of the basic functions of Flash. ... A cut scene or cutscene (sometimes also referred to as a cinematic) is a sequence in a video game over which the player has no control. ... The Sega Mega Drive ) is a video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988, North America in 1989, and the PAL region in 1990. ... Zero Wing is a 1989 Japanese shoot em up arcade game developed by Toaplan. ... Namcos Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games ever made. ... Toaplan was a video game developer from Japan. ... Something Awful, often abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website housing a variety of content, including blog entries, forums, feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. ...

Additionally, other lines from the cut scene are sometimes cited as examples of Internet memes, often in conjunction with the "All Your Base" line―notably, "Somebody set up us the bomb" and "For great justice!" make regular appearances on internet forums^{[citation needed]}. A cut scene or cutscene (sometimes also referred to as a cinematic) is a sequence in a video game over which the player has no control. ... The Hampster Dance [sic] is one of the first widely distributed Internet memes and illustrates the characteristic silliness of much of the genre. ... A virtual community is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet. ...

Transcripts and translations

Game transcript

A summarized GIF animation of the scene.

Narrator: In A.D. 2101, war was beginning.

Captain: What happen ?

Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.

(spoken in the Flash animation as Someone 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.

(spoken in the flash animation as you are on your way to destruction)

Captain: What you say !!

CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.

CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....

(spoken in the Flash animation as 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. They may also be included within the song lyrics of the animated Flash movie. Image File history File links Animated Gif showing the entire intro of Zero Wing. ... An example of a GIF image. ...

Original Japanese text

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]

西暦2101年

戦いは始まった。

艦長：一体どうしたと言んだ^[sic]！

機関士：何者かによって、爆発物が仕掛けられたようです。

通信士：艦長！通信が入りました！

艦長：なにっ！

通信士：メインスクリーンにビジョンが来ます。

艦長：おっお前は！

CATS：おいそがしそうだね、諸君。

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：君達の艦も、そろそろ終わりだろう。

艦長：ばっばかなっ・・・！

CATS：君達のご協力には感謝する。

CATS：せいぜい残り少ない命を、大切にしたまえ・・・・。

CATS：ハッハッハッハッハッ・・・

通信士：艦長・・・。

艦長：ZIG全機に発進命令！！

艦長：もう彼らに託すしかない・・。

艦長：我々の未来に希望を・・・

艦長：たのむぞ。ZIG！！

For other uses, see SIC. Sic is a Latin word, originally sicut [1] meaning thus, so, or just as that. In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized — [sic] — to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material has been...

More accurate translation of original text

AD 2101―

A war has begun.

Captain: Tell me what on Earth has happened!

Engineer: It seems someone has installed explosives unnoticed.

Communication operator: Captain! We've received a signal!

Captain: What!?

Communication operator: Visual incoming on the main screen.

Captain: You!?

CATS: You seem to be fairly preoccupied, gentlemen? (with sarcasm)

CATS: With help from the Federation Government forces, we, CATS, have taken over all of your bases.

CATS: Before long, your ship will meet its end as well.

Captain: It-It can't be...!

CATS: I thank you for your cooperation.

CATS: Cherish these few remaining moments of your lives.

CATS: Ha ha ha ha ha...

Communication operator: Captain....

Captain: I order all ZIG units to launch!!

Captain: They're all we have left―

Captain: ―to entrust the hope of our future...

Captain: We're counting on you, ZIG!!

Notable media references

The phrase on U.S. Route 50 in Nevada

• The phrase or some variation of lines from the game have appeared in articles, books, comics, clothing, movies, radio shows, songs, television shows, video games, webcomics, and websites. The most notable is in the game Warcraft, where the automatic win cheat is "All Your Base Are Belong To Us".

• In late 2000, Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay 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]

• With the purchase of a Ear force turtle beach headset for Xbox , Xbox 360. Wii, or PS3 one recives a sticker saying "ALL YOUR EARS ARE BELONG TO US"

• 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 not many people who saw the signs were familiar with the joke. 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]

• Yugioh: The Abridged Series played off of "All your base are belong to us" in their 9th episode of YGO:TAS. Instead of the original phrase he used "All your puzzle are belong to me." in a subtitle for Yami Bakura.

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See also

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Zero Wing

• List of Internet phenomena
• Internet memes
• Engrish

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References

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External links

As with media and other references, the number of sites containing a reference to All Your Base is very large. Accordingly, the following are links considered representative without being redundant or trite.

• "Official" AYBABTU Video Site (also contains histories, links, and pictures)
• Newgrounds' All Your Base Flash collection
• A detailed look on the history on how it evolved
• Gif animation/movie with voiceover