Overview
"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a badly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game.
By the early 2000s, a GIF animation depicting the opening text was widespread on internet forums. A music video accompanied by an EDM remix of the clip was posted on comedy forum Something Awful, gaining popularity and being referenced outside of the forums, becoming an Internet meme. The meme has been referenced many times in media outside of the forums.
Zero Wing transcript
Below are some other examples of text as it appeared in the poorly translated English release, alongside a more accurate translation from the original Japanese.
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