All Your Base Are Belong to Us
A badly translated villain announces his victory.
“All your base are belong to us.”
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- From
- Zero Wing (1991)
- Type
- Video game
- Who
- CATS
- Became a meme
- 2000
The scene
The European release of this shoot-’em-up opens with a famously broken English cutscene. The villain CATS says “How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us.”
It became one of the earliest internet memes and a byword for bad translations.
