All Your Base Are Belong to Us

Better keep an eye or your cats or they'll say "meow, you have no chance to survive , milk your time.

21 posted on 12/31/2003 10:59:08 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)

While we're bringing out all the oldies, don't forget....

HATT BABY!!!

22 posted on 12/31/2003 11:07:35 PM PST by socal_parrot (It NEVER rains in Southern California on New Year's Day!)

23 posted on 12/31/2003 11:16:32 PM PST by MediaMole

24 posted on 12/31/2003 11:26:19 PM PST by Nick Danger ( With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.)

25 posted on 12/31/2003 11:31:19 PM PST by South40 (My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)

Drug Alert - Drug Alert

26 posted on 12/31/2003 11:31:33 PM PST by muleskinner ("Oh, please")

To: null and void

27 posted on 01/01/2004 12:05:34 AM PST by Aracelis

Re: All Your Base Are Belong to Us

I've seen this said in various ways, but I'd like to know what the heck it means?

28 posted on 01/01/2004 12:31:49 AM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)

To: sonofatpatcher2

Its an internet joke that sprang up earlier this year. Its based off a horribly-translated bit of text at the beginning of some no-name video game. The folks who translated it from Japanese to English were awful. Someone got a hold on the intro, and its sheer lunacy was funny. It became a quote seen all over the internet, even worming its way into respectable sites. Best non-internet comparison I can draw is that sometimes a quote or phrase from Saturday Night Live will become part of our everyday speech (can't think of any examples now, its too late.) I pulled the following off a website:

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody 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.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.

History of 'All Your Base'

Toaplan creates the Zero Wing video game.
Toaplan releases a port for the Sega Genesis console with the addition of an intro scene, which is then translated into english (very poorly) and released in the United States.
Toaplan goes out of business.
Someone from a Zany Video Game Quotes website notices the poor translation, and highlights the game.
Overclocked.org does a humorous voiceover of the Zero Wing intro in a fake Wayne Newton voice.
Dozens of game-related messageboards begin to post quotes from the parody, and images altered to show the phrase.
Most of the threads lose interest and die off quickly as the trend is pronounced dead countless times.
The Flash movie/video is released with images from the threads and music taken from the origional game someone had added the phrase "all your base" to.
AYB explosively expands to the general (non game messageboard-reading) public.
The origional site for the video is shut down within hours due to excessive traffic, and moves to PlanetStarsiege.
Lycos ponders how "All your Base" was transformed from obscurity to a top 50 search practically overnight.
Mainstream media begin to notice the trend, and stories appear in Time Magazine, USA Today, Fox News, The Los Angeles Times, Tech TV, Wired, and many others.
As the 'remix' used in the video goes from 58 hits a day to several thousand per day, mp3.com notices the track has been ripped directly from the video game and pulls the music off their site due to copyright violations. It is later returned unchanged.
The trend continues to grow as it expands into nearly every corner of the web.
Large websites like Angelfire and Hewlett Packard sneak "all your base" references into their designs.
"All Your Base" is pronounced dead several times every day, yet it's 15 minutes of fame continue for some reason...

29 posted on 01/01/2004 1:18:33 AM PST by egarvue (Martin Sheen is not my president...)

30 posted on 01/01/2004 1:23:17 AM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)

Great Job, Well Done..

Return to Base.. ;oP

Thanks..

31 posted on 01/01/2004 2:35:42 AM PST by Drammach

I'm all about the badger love! We dance along to it in my dorm and use it as a work out. :-D

If you like that one, check out La Historia del Mamut

32 posted on 01/01/2004 5:32:31 AM PST by Amy4President (I went to public school... and I liked it! *gasp*)

To: JohnnyP; All

There's another version kinda appropriate today--click:

Click on the picture.

33 posted on 01/01/2004 5:39:14 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the TrackBall into the Sunset...)

.....and so it begins.

34 posted on 01/01/2004 5:52:47 AM PST by DoctorMichael (Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)

To: backhoe; All

First let me say that this version is not mine. I found it somewhere and put it on my server for all to see.

The timing of this version was very interesting. It came out just at the time our troops were surrounding Baghdad. It kinda summarizes the intensity of the conflict.

What will the next version look like? Dean as Saddam?

35 posted on 01/01/2004 5:54:03 AM PST by McGruff (President Bush sends his regards.)

First let me say that this version is not mine. I found it somewhere and put it on my server for all to see.

I was not aware of that- thanks for providing the info, and my best wishes to you & yours.

36 posted on 01/01/2004 6:00:32 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Cold Warrior, draggin' his BAR into the Sunset...)

My bad.

I thought it originated from one of Baghdad Bob's press conferences.

37 posted on 01/01/2004 2:37:31 PM PST by JohnnyP

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