"All your base": Another resource

Posted by R. Berg on March 26, 2001

In Reply to: "All your base are belong to us"...again posted by Ziggy on March 26, 2001

: Looks like we've had a mix-up. Here's a paraphrase of what I posted:

: In the past few months you might have heard the phrase "All your base are belong to us" pop up. If you're wondering what in God's name it could mean, here's the story. It's basically a running joke about bad video game translation. About 11 years ago a video game called "Zero Wing" was released in Japan. The distributor wanted to release an English version for the US and European markets, but first the game had to be translated from Japanese to English. Well, apparently something was lost in the translation, and the results are hilarious. You can find the original introduction at hotzp.com/

I'm glad you brought that up. I had planned to submit "All your base . . ." to consider adding to the Phrase Finder collection. Now I don't have to.