Has Anyone Seen This Before? Take A Look

**Cheese** · 07-29-2004, 06:29 PM

It's a cult thing of the internet (not a cult like Rikk and Cowsy's mind), here is an article for you guys though with your short attention spans I'll doubt you'll read it but hey there are some funny pictures...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/22/al...ase_are_belong/

**Snee** · 07-29-2004, 06:31 PM

Lovely pictures, couild you explian what it's about tho'?

preferably using single syllable words.

**Cheese** · 07-29-2004, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by SnnY@29 July 2004 - 18:32
Lovely pictures, couild you explian what it's about tho'?

preferably using single syllable words.

It is basically similar to the craze that is gep here but for the whoile internet. A game came out badly translated in "Engrish" and lots of images of the "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" circulated the whole wide web...

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All your base are belong to us" (sometimes abbreviated AYBABTU or simply AYB) is a phrase that sparked an Internet craze that occurred in 2001 and 2002. The phenonemon initally took the form of the sentence appearing on website message boards. Many images were digitally altered so that the phrase was added in, either obviously or discreetly. Eventually these were collected together onto one site and a Flash animation produced from them, which was widely downloaded.

The phrase arose from a poor translation used in the English version of the Japanese video game Zero Wing, originally produced by Toaplan in 1989. The infamous quotes were taken from the European localization of the Sega Megadrive port released in 1992. (The arcade version of Zero Wing does not include the quote, nor any other dialogue; the intro for the PC-Engine version has CD quality spoken dialogue, but has a completely different introduction. Zero Wing was never released in North America, and therefore never came to the Sega Genesis, the North American Megadrive.)

All Your Base was interesting in that it demonstrated the power of the Internet to quickly spread idiosyncratic messages that would never have been covered by the traditional mass media. Although the fad has since died down, the phrase continues to be one of the most commonly quoted examples of "Engrish".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_you...e_belong_to_us