Screen shot from Zero Wing © 1989, Toaplan
Web Resources for "All Your Base" Segment
Friday, January 10, 2003
How one awful Japanese-to-English translation in a 1989 cartoon-like space video game created such a stir online can best be attributed to the myriad of pop cultural references shared by Web geeks, gamers, casual e-mail checkers, tech nerds, musicians, artists, anyone with body piercings, and Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers alike. In 2001, years after Toaplan released Zero Wing, the mistranslation spread throughout the Internet community, bringing with it altered images, Internet-based movies, satirized advertisements and general mayhem, all focusing on the phrase "All your base are belong to us..."
Below are some Web resources that show this Net phenomenon in all its glory:
Web sites:
All Your Base Are Belong To Us - Official Video Site
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/
All Your Brand Are Belong To Us site
www.allyourbrand.org/
“All Your Base” videos:
www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/AYB2.swf
www.webanimag.com/ayb/ (with Smurfs!)
www.maficdesign.com/ayb/mrt.swf (with Mr. T.!)
List of articles/Web sites/discussion forums on the phenomenon:
www.sirlinksalot.net/ayb.html
(note: some of the links are outdated)
History of “All Your Base Are Belong To Us:”
www.tvsian.com/hubert/article.php?sid=1
T-shirts with the phrase:
www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/3777/
Songs about the phenomenon:
evolution-control.com/mp3/allyourbase/
Altered Ads/Objects:
www.tobyslater.com/allyourbase/allyourbase.html
www.classicgameroom.com/allyourbase/
www.geocities.com/mainscreenturnon/
frogstar.com/aybabtu/index.asp
avians.net/skan/aybabtu/
List of "All Your Base"-related links:
dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Shooter/Zero_Wing/All_Your_Base_Are_Belong_to_Us/
List of Zero Wing sites:
www.toaplan.com/zerowing/zerowing_story.html
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