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In the 1980's, just as many in our office were heading into the wild blue yonder, at a time when stand-up arcades could be found in every mall across this land, a single game took over. The translation into English from its native dialect was so poor, it was comical.  For reasons no one quite understands, the grammatically inept characters of the game reached stardom in America, and their mantra found its way into the geek lexicon.

At NATIONALHI, we are all "adults" now, and because of online shopping we cannot even say whether stand-up arcades still exist in the malls of America.  There is one thing we do know.  If you remember "All your base are belong to us," you "have no chance to survive make your time" because "someone set up us the bomb."

If you can't remember "AYB", don't worry.  You're probably better off.  :-D

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To view an enlightening movie of the phenomenon, click here. 
(Warning) Some images may be disturbing.

Here's the official story as reported by PlanetTribes.com.

1. Toaplan creates the Zero Wing video game.
2. Toaplan releases a port for the Sega Genesis console with the addition of an intro scene, which is then translated into English (very poorly) and released in the United States.
3. Toaplan goes out of business.
4. Someone from a Zany Video Game Quotes website notices the poor translation, and highlights the game.
5. Overclocked.org does a humorous voiceover of the Zero Wing intro in a fake Wayne Newton voice.
6. Dozens of game-related message boards begin to post quotes from the parody, and images are altered to show the phrase.
7. Most of the threads lose interest and die off quickly as the trend is pronounced dead countless times.
8. The Flash movie/video is released with images from the threads and music taken from the original game to which someone had added the phrase "All Your Base".
9. AYB explosively expands to the general (non-game-message-board-reading) public.
10. The original site for the video is shut down within hours due to excessive traffic, and moves to PlanetStarsiege.
11. Lycos ponders how "All Your Base" was transformed from obscurity to a top 50 search practically overnight.
12. Mainstream media begin to notice the trend, and stories appear in Time Magazine, USA Today, Fox News, The Los Angeles Times, Tech TV, Wired, and many others.
13. As the 'remix' used in the video goes from 58 hits a day to several thousand per day, mp3.com notices the track has been ripped directly from the video game and pulls the music off its site due to copyright violations. It is later returned unchanged.
14. The trend continues to grow as it expands into nearly every corner of the web.
15. Large websites like Angelfire and Hewlett Packard sneak "All Your Base" references into their designs.
16. "All Your Base" is pronounced dead several times every day, yet its 15 minutes of fame continue for some reason...

All your base are belong to us....