All Your Base are Belong to Us
From TribalWar
Often mistakingly credited to TW, the AYBABTU internet fad was not created by TW but rather popularized when Bad_CRC made a flash about it.
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 or simply AYB) is an Engrish phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of flash animation that ubiquitously depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan. Its brief but intense popularity derived in part from its poor translation into English and partly from its near-accidental adoption by a group of Internet humorists. While the wildfire has died down, "All Your Base" is still a well-known reference among gamers.
Game transcript
The cut scene transcript goes as follows:
- 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.
- 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.
