2006-07-06 03:08:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan. While the translation was generally poor, this phrase stood out as particularly humorous.
2006-07-06 03:11:47 · answer #1 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The phrase stems from a 1991 adaptation of Toaplan's “Zero Wing” shoot-'em-up arcade game for the Sega Genesis game console. A brief introduction was added to the opening screen, and it has what many consider to be the worst Japanese-to-English translation in video game history. The introduction shows the bridge of a starship in chaos as a Borg-like figure named CATS materializes and says, “How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us.” [sic] In 2001, this amusing mistranslation spread virally through the Internet, bringing with it a slew of JPEGs and a movie of hacked photographs, each showing a street sign, store front, package label, etc. hacked to read “All your base are belong to us” or one of the other many supremely dopey lines from the game (such as “Somebody set up usthe bomb!!!” or “What happen?”). When these phrases are used properly, the overall effect is both screamingly funny and somewhat chilling, reminiscent of the B movie “They Live”.
The original has been generalized to “All your X are belong to us”, where X is filled in to connote a sinister takeover of some sort. Thus, “When Joe signed up for his new job at Yoyodyne, he had to sign a draconian NDA. It basically said: All your code are belong to us.” Has many of the connotations of “Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated” (see Borg). Considered silly, and most likely to be used by the type of person that finds Jeff K. hilarious.
2006-07-06 10:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Came from a cut scene in the computer game Zero Wing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
2006-07-06 10:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't it Radiant Silvergun on the Saturn?
2006-07-06 10:11:41 · answer #4 · answered by edsephiroth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was in a video game. Bad translation from Japanese to English.
2006-07-06 10:11:19 · answer #5 · answered by mchamilton35 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Star trek?
2006-07-06 10:11:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out:
http://www.whoomp.com/articles/211/1/All-Your-Base-Are-Belong-To-Us-Video
quite funny.
2006-07-07 00:06:39 · answer #7 · answered by mike i 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
something to do with baseball otr softball by sounds of it
2006-07-06 10:11:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a game on sega, dont know what its called though
2006-07-06 10:11:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
chinese hackers
2006-07-06 10:10:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋