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All Your Base Are Belong To Us

From WhatPort80

Einstein created All Your Base at least 100 years ago

All Your Base is one of the oldest of old memes that has literally been around for at least 100 years [1]. It is a culmination of the efforts of many websites and forums, including Something Awful and Fark. Japanese game company Toaplan created a space shooter entitled "Zero Wing" and SNK imported it into Europe with a ridiculously bad Engrish translation. Years later, the Internet found it and photoshopped various catchphrases from the intro onto everyday items. The meme is so ancient and powerful that it has spawned many smaller memes, which are now so ubiquitous that they are not even recognizable (I.E "For Great Justice!"). It has also been turned into the dance level of FlashFlashRevolution, a crappy rip-off of DDR using arrowkeys and the internets. Great for fatties too lazy to just step on the arrows.

In A.D. 2101

War was beginning.

Captain: What happen ?

Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.

Operator: We get signal.

Captain: What !

Operator: Main screen turn on.

Captain: It's You !!

Cats: How are you gentlemen !!

Cats: All your base are belong to us.

Cats: You are on the way to destruction.

Captain: What you say !!

Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.

Cats: HA HA HA HA ....

Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!

Captain: You know what you doing.

Captain: Move 'ZIG'.

Captain: For great justice.

Several people dubbed their voices over the intro in an overly dramatic fashion, and eventually most of the Photoshopped images were gathered by Bad_CRC and incorporated into a flash movie that every veteran of the Internet has seen by now. It should be noted that AYBABTU (as it is affectionately acronymed) has slid so far into the negative zone of comedy that quoting the exchange is now legally considered justification for assault and murder, which is the punishment soon to be faced by the creators of the MSN bot, Encarta Instant Answers.