All your base are belong to us
All your base are belong to us ( AYBABTU, English), literally in German translates All your / your base are belong to us or your / your whole base are belong to us, is a quote from the opening sequence of the computer game Zero Wing and is for an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002. 's net culture is alluded to with this phrase in the rule to the neglect of language and form the Internet.
History
The game Zero Wing, a horizontally scrolling space shoot- 'em -up that appeared in 1989 for arcade machines and Sega Mega Drive, remained insignificant in itself. However, the translation of the opening text from Japanese to English for the Western market was so bumpy that this caused in the English language quite a stir. To his fame the saying came only in the years 1999 to 2001. Many of the unintentionally comical movements of this sequence were taken from the Internet community, especially in the field of computer gaming scene, as memes.
Created the basis for this hype a member of TribalWar Forum, Bad_CRC, the one " All your base are belong to us" thread opened on 16 December 2000 and created the first photomontages. In more or less known images here has been in some form of saying " All your base are belong to us" incorporated. As background music, the song Invasion of the Gabber Robots the group The Laziest Men on Mars serves. This video begins with an abridged version of the Zero Wing intro in which the spoken text was intoned with the help of the computer voice Microsoft Sam.
This flash video made known to a wider audience, the quote about the limits of video game forums. Soon followed by hidden references to " All your base " on known websites. The phrase was thus from the insider joke among video gamers and geeks to a mass phenomenon that also media such as Time Magazine and Wired reported.
Some game developers built " All your base are belong to us" even as a cheat in their real-time strategy games one, so it can be found for example in Empire Earth and Warcraft III. One of the currently known examples is a music video for the strategy game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, in which the former Star Trek actor George Takei recites this sentence.
The OpenVMS operating system is also an undocumented return code included, which is translated as "% SYSTEM -F - GAME OVER, all your base are belong to us".
In the Futurama episode " stories of interest II" says an alien the sentence.
When logging into the console of the pre-installed on the KARO -board operating system comes as a login message of the sentence.
In the 10th episode of " Real Humans - Real People ," Season 1, gives the Hubot Bea during the burglary in the Swedish intelligence " AYBABTU " as a password to a computer.