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The phrase as it appears in the introduction to Zero Wing. " All your base are belong to us " is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game.
Zero Wing enjoyed a degree of success in arcades and its home conversions were met with mostly positive reception from critics. The European Mega Drive version later gained renewed popularity due to the "All your base are belong to us" internet meme, which plays off the badly translated introductory cutscene. The rights to the title are owned ...
A well-known example of this is "All your base are belong to us" from Zero Wing (1989). [8] Legacy. Around 2000, "I am Error" became an early Internet meme.
All your base are belong to us is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed. This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 4, 2004.
The phenomenon of Photoshopping "All your base" began in the General Bullshit forum at Something Awful. The original thread [in october/november of 2000] simply had the title "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" with the entire first post being "on the table". The first actual photoshop was simply a screen capture from "Alf" with a speech bubble on it.
The main All your base are belong to us will only contain incidents which received some sort of media coverage (reputable internet news sources apply). A new article will be created, entitled List of occurances of "All your base are belong to us" (or some better name), which can contain any occurances of AYB one wishes to list.
Tatsuya Uemura (上村 建也, Uemura Tatsuya, born June 23, 1960) is a Japanese arcade game musician and programmer. He has composed the following scores for arcade games: After Toaplan closed in 1994, Uemura joined the Toaplan offshoot company Gazelle, and served as director of the 1996 shooter Air Gallet (Akuu Gallet; distributed by Banpresto).
the four phrases mentioned all had > 1000 google hits, which considering how weird they are, is a sign that they have definitely been copied from Zero Wing. "somebody set up us the bomb" is actually more popular at 1780 hits than "move 'zig'" at just over 1000. "all your base" alone returns 52,000.