All Your Base Are Belong to Us (1998)
added Dec 12, 2008 at 08:10PM UTC
part of a series on Engrish
About
“All Your Base Are Belong to Us” is a classic internet meme that has been spawning derivatives at some level since at least 1998. Most of the early derivatives took the form of image macros and Flash animations, although the meme has spread to Youtube videos as well.
Appeal
The poor grammar present in “All Your Base” is an example of Engrish; phrases originally written in an Asian language but translated poorly into its closest English approximation. Quite often, instances of All Your Base are accompanied by the song “Attack of the Gabber Robots” by The Laziest Men on Mars; a song created using samples from the game.
Origin
The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing.
[[research needed for first appearance in “rage games” site mentioned in video]]
Spread
“All Your Base” was so well-known to the Something Awful community that the joke was referenced a number of times on the site’s front page a number of times in 2001.
- Something Awful Front Page News: PCXL Wins! – April 26th, 2001
- Something Awful Front Page News: The 60 Geocities sites destruction derby – October 17th, 2001
Albino Black Sheep
On December 23rd, 2001, an All Your Base flash animation was uploaded to Albinoblacksheep.
Newgrounds
“All Your Base” flash animations were also popular on Newgrounds in the early 2000’s.
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Meme Details
Origin
unknown
Year
1998







































