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Origin: Rage Games / Zany Video Game Quotes

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"All Your Base of operations Are Belong to Us" is a popular engrish catchphrase that grew popular across the internet every bit early as in 1998. An bad-mannered translation of "all of your bases are now under our command", the quote originally appeared in the opening dialogue of Zero Wing, a 16-fleck shoot'em up game released in 1989. Marked by poor grammar, the "All Your Base of operations" phrase and the dialogue scene went viral on pop discussion forums in 2000, spawning thousands of image macros and flash animations featuring the slogan both on the web and in real life.

Origin

The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1992 port of the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing,^[viii] released on the SEGA Mega Drive. The quote is from the introduction sequence of the game in which the main antagonist, the leader of CATS appears to announce "all your base are belong to us" during an exchange with the ship'due south captain. The first GIF of the opening sequence is rumored to have originated on the Rage Games website in early 1998.^[16] Additionally, the website Zany Video Game Quotes^[xi] has been credited with popularizing the GIF.^[12] ^[13] According to a timeline published on the site RetroGames.com,^[15] the GIF was posted on the site Zany Video Game Quotes in "late 1998/early 1999."

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Helm: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set upwardly us the bomb.
Operator: Nosotros go bespeak.
Captain: What !
Operator: Master screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you lot gentlemen !!

CATS: All your base are vest to u.s.a..
CATS: You are on the way to devastation.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha …
Operator: Helm !!
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: You know what y'all doing.
Captain: Motion 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.

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In June 2000, Overclock.org posted their Zero Wing Dub Project, featuring a dubbed version of the introduction with Wayne Newton'south voice. The video is among the first response videos to the phrase. On December 16th, 2000, Tribal War Forums^[14] member Bad_CRC submitted a thread titled "All your base are belong to united states of america," featuring a quote from the opening sequence. In February 2001, Bad_CRC released a music video for a gabber remix of the vocal, which was as well uploaded to Newgrounds^[ix] on Feb 16th, 2001 (shown below).

In late 2000, in that location was a large thread on the TribalWar forums. At this fourth dimension, the tendency also hit SomethingAwful. According to Frogstar.com, the first photoshop thread began in November 2000, obtaining over 2000 images. The thread has since been lost on account of hacking. This thread likewise led to the vocal Invasion of the Gabber Robots, by The Laziest Men On Mars.

On February 23rd, 2001 Wired wrote an article on the phrase. That year, mention of "All Your Base of operations" appeared on various news sites, such as the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and USA Today.

In February 2004, North Carolina Country University students hacked into the local news alive broadcasting system that reports on weather-related closures and replaced information technology with the phrase "All your base are vest to us".^[5]

On June 1st, 2006, Engineers at YouTube replaced the site with a bulletin reading "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" as they prepared to roll out new site features.^{[half dozen]}

"All Your Base" as well appeared on a Chicago Fox news station, uploaded to YouTube in 2006, where Greg Lindsay from Inside.com compared repeating the phrase to people maxim "WAZZZUP" in Budweiser commercials.

On June 12, 2014, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, released a blog posting stating that they "will non initiate patent lawsuits." The post was entitled: "All our Patent Are Belong to You".^[seven]

In addition to the macros and videos, the meme too spawned a catchphrase of its own: For Great Justice. It is mainly used as a motto to encourage someone in carrying an activity correct to the cease.
Oh Cyberspace describes it equally:

[…]everyday tasks are fabricated more humorous by calculation the suffix "…for cracking justice" to a directive, invitation, or announcement. Information technology is generally assumed that a person using this phrase (or any other meme) has nothing of real value to express.

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Several well-known video games such as World of Warcraft and Order wars reference the line. The line also gained an article on the TV Tropes site.

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The rise of All Your Base phenomenon too coincided with the advents in epitome-editing software similar Photoshop, assisting in establishing Photoshopped images equally a common medium for internet memes and mutations. Early on derivatives took the form of image macros and Flash animations, and later the meme has spread to Youtube videos as well.