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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.
Arcade screenshot. Zero Wing is a science fiction-themed side-scrolling shooter similar to Hellfire, where players assume the role of Trent taking control of the ZIG space fighter craft through eight increasingly difficult levels, each with a boss at the end that must be fought before progressing any further, in a last-ditch effort to overthrow the alien cyborg CATS as the main objective.
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.
Removed the following text, which seems to be a speculative digression. --Rootbeer 2002-04-04 It seems all but inevitable that the various strange urges compelling people to bind various ideas to these memes will eventually conspire to make them mean something - although most likely there will be no consensus on that meaning, and new meanings will spawn faster than old ones could be agreed on.
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.
In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, the player sees "All your base are belong to www.edgeofreality.com" as part of the game credits, and the phrase also appears spray-painted on a wall in one of the game environments. In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, one of the messages displayed after getting knocked down online says "All your base are belong to (player)".
Hey, TiVo! Suggest this! " Anthology of Interest II " is the eighteenth episode in the third season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 50th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 6, 2002. This episode, as well as the earlier "Anthology of Interest I ...
- The current AYB image, and source of all this Fall 1998: Zero Wing (the arcade version) is first emulated. The arcade version is missing the intro, but the ending has a similar translation. March 13, 2000: Toaplan.com opens.