"All your base are belong to us!"

Is this even proper English??

This entry is not so "reader-friendly" since it's about a particular video game. But no worries, even if you don't play games at all or know little about the history of video gaming it'd still be no problem for you to understand my post here. Even I myself did not play this piece of antique (NO THANKS), but what I am trying to convey here is the idea of how is the standard of English that is in Japan (and in the previous post, in China)... Have a good laugh.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/AllYourBaseAnimated.gif


Apart from doing some research on the good ol' Star Wars film, I also spent some time to do a study on one of the Top 10 worst games ever created on His Earth, Zero Wing. (In fact I spent my whole day laughing my asses off on these two masterpieces). Not only is infamous for its poor gameplay, this game actually is renown for its poorly translated English version (it's originated in Japan and developed by Toaplan back in the year 1989. And the company? Went bankrupted shortly after the game's launch Zzz)

The link enclosed above is a famous copy of image that summarize the intro of this game, do you understand a word it says?




Wikipedia: "All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", AYBABTU or simply AYB) is an incorrect English phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in the 1990s, with the spread of flash animation that ubiquitously depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan. Its brief but intense popularity derived in part from its poor translation into English and partly from its near-accidental adoption by a group of Internet humorists. "All Your Base" is still a well-known reference among gamers, and has been used as a cheat-phrase in the popular Blizzard game Starcraft.

Due to its immense popularity, the phrase or some variation of the lines from the game has been seen in innumerable articles, books, comics, clothing, movies, radio shows, songs, television shows, video games, webcomics, and websites. However, few have actually drawn any mainstream media attention. A selection of those that have garnered such coverage follows:

* In late 2000, Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay Jeffrey Ray Roberts, then age 23, from the Gabber band The Laziest Men on Mars, made a techno dance track, Invasion of the Gabber Robots, that remixed some of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura, with a voiceover phrase All your base are belong to us.

* On February 23, 2001, Wired provided an early report on the phenomenon in an article titled "When Gamer Humor Attacks" that covered everything from the Flash animation to its spread through e-mail and Internet forums to T-shirts bearing the phrase.

* On April 1, 2003, in Sturgis, Michigan, seven people age 17 to 20 placed signs all over town that read, "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time." They said they were playing an April Fool's joke by mimicking the famous Flash animation that ubiquitously depicted the slogan. Not many people who saw the signs were familiar with the joke, however. Many residents were upset that the signs appeared while the U.S. was at war with Iraq, and police chief Eugene Alli said the signs could be “a borderline terrorist threat depending on what someone interprets it to mean.”

* In February 2004, university students in Raleigh, North Carolina exploited a web-based service provided for local schools and businesses to report a weather-related closing to display the phrase within a news ticker on a live news broadcast on News 14 Carolina.

* On June 1, 2006, the video hosting website YouTube was taken down temporarily for maintenance. The phrase "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" appeared below the YouTube logo as a placeholder while the site was down. Some users believed the site had been hacked, leading the host to add the message "No, we haven't been hacked. Get a sense of humor."

My personal favourite:
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video3_view.shtml

Check this out too:
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml


Okay maybe you didn't get the fun... But I sure is enjoying XD.
I just can't stop repeating myself that hilarious chorus... "All your base... are belong to us~"