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As you may have noticed in the box at the top of this page, I have put this page back up for FA status. If it's important to you one way or the other, please click the "leave comments" link here or in the top box above. ⇒ BRossow T/C 16:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
RANDOM NOTE
THIS ARTICLE IS NOT CORRECT ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US IS A CHEAT FROM STARCRAFT WHICH WAS RELEASWED 1998. THE PHENOMENON STARTED PRIOR TO 2001 TO 2002. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.184.146.200 (talk) 14:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there a reason the spoken word version links has been removed from the article? While it's fine to have the link here in discussion, it limits average reader access to it. I suggest it be put back in the article. It's actually a very well done reading of it. --Lendorien 22:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
I have taken it upon myself to archive dated material from this Talk page as well as the main page, as some of you may have noticed. Specifically, I have moved all material dated prior to January 2006 from the Talk page as well as all but a few media references and all other references from the main page. Links to these archives are at the top of this Talk page.
I implore all of you to help return this article to its former quality as a Featured Article. You can do this in a number of ways:
Thanks for your cooperation! --BRossow 21:39, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I am working to encourage implementation of the goals of the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy. Part of that is to make sure articles cite their sources. This is particularly important for featured articles, since they are a prominent part of Wikipedia. The Fact and Reference Check Project has more information. Thank you, and please leave me a message when you have added a few references to the article. --Taxman 16:22, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
I noticed this article is entirely without citations, much less solid ones. If no one feels like digging up any, I'm going to nominate this for defeaturing. Further, the varrious lists in the article and the externals are too probably a little to long. I'd fix those myself, but I don't want to be accused of mucking up the article before nominating it to be defeatured. --Gmaxwell 05:38, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Have you noticed MediaWiki's reference to AYBABTU on their Bugzilla page? [1] Just wondering. rmccue 05:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Are three really necessary? They just clutter the article needlessly. Pick the best one and comment out the other two. --Michiel Sikma 22:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Must 1/2 or more of the article be simply media references? — Ilyanep (Talk) 05:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Why don't we make a seperate page? Like Wiki has a list of videos organized by how many uses of "fuck" it has, and a list of silent protagonists, why don't we make an entirely seperate page with a list of AYB references? --TerminusEst13
I've already pared back the references and translations, so now I'm giving fair warning that the external links are up next on the chopping block. If anyone cares to suggest links that must be preserved on the main page, please speak up quickly and explain your position. Remember, people, that this USED to be a featured article. Let's get it back to featured quality. Thanks! --BRossow 03:50, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
BTW this phrase was a cheat in StarCraft pc game that appeared first in 1998, so it's not only 2000 and 2001 phenomenon. --GolerGkA 08:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I recall that during the heyday of this almost every yahoo link included ayb=btu in it somewhere. I kick myself heartily for never getting a screen shot. Nobody happens to have one do they? JohnCub 00:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it known who was the original writer/translator at Toaplan/Sega who coined these phrases? It's surprising that he never seemed to come out of the shadows ....
--84.115.129.76 14:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I hate to bring this up, but are the original text and animation from the game copyrighted? Fishal 16:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Some people seem to be under the mistaken impression that articles should be laid out to suit their personal taste. That is not the case, however. Mediawiki includes a feature for exactly this purpose, see WP:CSS for details.
Alternative layouts are acceptable and indeed desirable on unusually structured pages. But this is just a regular article and there is absolutely no reason to deviate from the standard. This is one of the cases where consistency is more important than getting it exactly right. Zocky | picture popups 16:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I've heard that someone redid the AYB sequence to scenes from the finale of BSG... anyone know where to find them? -- Jbamb 16:26, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
umm....what does BSG stand for?Helo254 01:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Battlestar Galactica, I'd think.
This article has really improved since about a month ago. Keep up the good work! And the TOCRight really makes it look better. — Ilyanep (Talk) 16:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted. Very nice work -- next stop, featured article status again! Air.dance 06:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Please help build policy at: Wikipedia:Notability (memes). Thank you, --Urthogie 15:30, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
It'd be nice to see a section on variations in general- we could use as an example the Wikipedia version of All Your Base... --maru (talk) contribs 03:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I recall back when I last investigated this craze, there was some serious controvercy surrounding it. The most widely known flash video, featuring a (what I thought to be a remix) of "Invasion of the gabber robots" and the imfamous image edits was done without the permission of any of the artists or properly crediting them, and a bit of a spat erupted at the time.
Although this is perhaps secondary to the subjact matter itself, it does highlight issues of copyright in the production of comedy flash videos. It also became a bit of a lesson for the community to either ask, or be accepting of your newfound fame.
I'll have a search for sources to verify this at some point, but given a few of the more notoriously wild websites may have to be dug through, it may take some time. If anyone else recalls this, or can provide evidence, please do! 147.188.27.3 22:08, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Talk:All_your_base_are_belong_to_us/Archive_2#Source:_Something_Awful_forums
Why was this changed when I gave verification of it starting at SA? Trampled
YouTube's AYB message was reported on IT media[2], which is a news site provided by SoftBank. According to the article, the message was shown since noon until 16 o'clock (JST, UTC+9) in 2 June.--Mochi 15:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Okay, someone went through a lot of effort a while back to cut the "AYB in popular culture" down to the verifiable references that drew some level of media attention. Over the last couple weeks, we've started to have some uncited (and IMHO non-notable) game references creep back into the article. Can we come to some kind of consensus about what is appropriate for this section?
Some people are clearly interested in every single occurance of AYB, but that would fill endless pages and would detract from an article which (at some point at least) was being prepared for WP:FAC. Perhaps it would be useful to create a new page, such as List of occurances of "All your base are belong to us", where game references can reside, and limit the main AYB page to incidents with some sort of media coverage (even CNET news, like one of the current references).
So basically, my proposal is:
Quick poll?
Seems like we've reached a consensus. I've created the article List of cultural references to "All your base are belong to us", and I'm now going to start removing the "non-media" references from the main article. Any non-media references that appear here in the future (such as video-game references) should be moved to List of cultural references to "All your base are belong to us". --JerryOrr 13:02, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
The article says:
... "Somebody set up us the bomb" or its derivative, "Somebody set up us the bomb" ...
Anyone know what derivative the user was intending to quote?
--Snograt 04:49, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
The Phrase "all your base are belong to us" is comeletely and annoyingly bad grammar. It should be something like All of your bases now belong to us. Or All of your bases are ours now. Because of the word all, base should be plural, bases. the phrase are belong is incorrect. The phrase is idiotic and stupid and should be changed to be correct. Opinions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jpolster2005 (talk • contribs).
Should Kilroy was here this be linked in the 'see also' section?
That and André the Giant Has a Posse should be. Is there any reason they shouldn't? "All your base are belong to us" is quickly becoming a contemporary and cultural equivalent. --69.162.184.145 06:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I've added them both. --71.161.221.86 02:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Why is AYB in flash not included in the links list? It has the best quality and smallest filesize of the ones I've seen, and I came to this page specifically looking for that, so I think it would be a good addition. Poromenos 00:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Was "All your base are belong to us" not a cheat in Starcraft? I think it was, it gave all your troopo's Invincibility. Should this not be mentioned? Dfrg.msc User talk:Dfrg.msc 08:07, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I think it is a cheat in Warcraft III which lets you win the game.
YouTube (Base on Samuel L Jackson's Snakes on a plane)
i removed this link, "http://www.ithasnewstats.com/anim.htm World of Warcraft based AYB tribute,"
Well nevermind I guess no one wants to delete this, I saw a user box that suggested otherwise :) Mathiastck 04:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm surprised that no mention of the Time magazine cover story is mentioned. It seemed like a large event in the history of the phenomenon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Arcadina (talk • contribs).
In the image showing the game's intro:
Image:AllYourBaseAnimated.gif
At the line "You have no chance to survive make your time", one character appears on the screen but a shadow of the person previously there is left in front of him. This looks like an animation error; does it actually happen in the game?
I'd have linked to the image page itself rather than posting the image inline but I don't know how, heh. 65.95.157.80 06:18, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
The shadow of the captain IS meant to be there. CATS fades in, and he fades to black. It *is* how it's meant to be. ItaniKnight 09:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally. Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 04:28, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
There are other links in the article at the bottom that have copies of the video available. The youtube link was redundant and illegal. What is the difference? "gamespy.com" site is providing commentary -about- the clip... that would make it a legal fair-use of the clip. YouTube's primary purpose is NOT for critical commentary of the clip. THATS the difference. ---J.S (t|c) 07:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that on the website www.mess.be (for MSN messenger addons and stuff) has an image in their title that switches through various things, including "Don't mess with the Lord, mess with MSN messenger"... And one of them is "Don't mess us up the bomb, mess with MSN messenger."
Does that count as something to add to the article? - All your wikipedia articles are belong to the public. 11:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Note: Never mind, I'll stick it in the article about references to it instead...
I don't know how to edit it properly. http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9591/megamanaybabtugq0.png . It's from the game Megaman Battle Network for the Gameboy Advance (2001).
I really would think that all those AYB references in the 2006 Video Game Awards would have been notable enough to include a mention...
I reverted all of the last 10 edits. Everything from here to here is crap. If anyone has any objections, feel free to discuss here and I will be happy to reconsider. --Mattarata 14:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Speaking of recent edits, what on Earth is "deleted, just like the llama song" supposed to mean? ItaniKnight
What text to speech program is used in the most famous flash animation? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.123.210.30 (talk) 23:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC).
I tagged a bunch of lines with ((Fact)) because they made unsupported claims and it was non-obvious where these claims came from. --Quirex 18:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I know that technically we aren't supposed to add links to uncyclopedia, but on uncyclopedia there is an all your base animation that is about Wikipedia that really is quite funny. Should I add it or will it just get deleted? It does show how commonly the all your base quotes are used as jokes in culture. Thanks. Ilikefood 23:13, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't have a short and concise introduction. There is almost a full screen of text before hitting the TOC. The first two sentences, followed by a closing sentence would probably provide a nice introduction and the rest of the text could be put in a new section titled "History". Any comments? Hose502 05:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Am I the only one who notices that just about everything they say in the scene butchers the English language? NOT JUST THIS PHRASE! EVERYTHING!!! Is there any reason why the other phrases didn't become huge internet memes as well? Seriouslly, of all things in video games, bad translations by stupid people are what tick me off the most. It is lazy translators like the ones that did this, that have mistranslated many things in the Legend of Zelda series... Link's Awakening 21:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
No references to "The truck have started to move" or "I feel asleep"? Where are all the 8-bit gamers? Where are Bimmy and Jimmy? -Grammaticus Repairo 05:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
What about reinstating some of the translations lost in this edit, now that Zero Wing (translations) has gone the way of dodo?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.140.237.98 (talk) 04:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Per the comments on this talk page and the comment in the page source, I've pruned (and archived to the list page) all cultural references that aren't notable. The notability criteria established above and in the comment is "Media coverage". Personally, I interpret that as meaning that the cultural reference must include a citation referring to an established media outlet that reported on it. Referring to the reference itself (how circular) isn't enough, it has to be third party coverage. Dissent welcomed. Orpheus 23:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I agree that it's funny, but is it really necessary for an encyclopedia article? 80.235.60.139 18:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
do any of you think there should be two slanted exclamation points after the title? that is how it was in the game
Actually it says "All your base are belong to us." No slanted exclamation marks exist in those few frames. - 202.86.217.25 (talk) 18:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
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Is it just me, or does this section have absolutely nothing to do with this article?JoeyGWilliams 22:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
1989: Zero Wing's english version is released in Europe. - The origin of AYBABTU Mid 1998: A different version of the Zero Wing .gif is posted on the now-defunct quote page at Rage Games. When the site morphs into Whazzat!, the .gif is replaced by text. Late 1998/Early 1999: The current Zero Wing animated .GIF is posted on Zany Video Game Quotes, submitted by Seymont. It begins slowly circulating the internet. - The current AYB image, and source of all this Fall 1998: Zero Wing (the arcade version) is first emulated. The arcade version is missing the intro, but the ending has a similar translation. March 13, 2000: Toaplan.com opens. The site contains info about Zero Wing and other Toaplan games. June 5, 2000: The Zero Wing Dub Project is posted at OverClocked - The first original AYB humor July 31, 2000: The Mistranslated Ship Captain becomes a guru at the True Meaning of Life. His first post is here. Summer 2000: The forums at Something Awful start to get infected. The .gif is in at least one person's signature. It gets posted with some regularity in various threads. A few people link back to the dub. Fall 2000: According to one visitor, AYBABTU was appearing on Stile Project as the title & in images. This may have been the result of Jeff K.'s hack of the site - Stile liked it and kept it a while. September 6, 2000: On the SA forums, a gimmick poster called Alf posts a picture of Alf on the phone. Starscream adds a speech bubble saying "All your base are belong to us." It's a hit, and gets posted a few more times. Here's a copy of the picture. - First AYB photo edit October 12, 2000: AYBABTU begins appearing on the relic.com forums. November 6 - 21, 2000: The Something Awful era - The Photoshop explosion, and source of a LOT of images A thread is posted - The title is "ALL YUOR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!" (yes, it was spelled "YUOR"), and the only message is "ON THE TABLE!!" By the end of the first page, the photoshopping had begun. The first image, a skeleton from Army of Darkness, was done by Starscream (again!). A copy of the first page of the thread may be found here. Thanks to clockworkjoe of the SA forums, who saved the first (and most important) page! As further evidence, this thread linked back to the SA one. Around page 10, word begins to spread. HardOCP is one of the first to link back to it. Some of the pictures are incredible works of Photoshopping (like the Times Square pic done by The Yellow Yell). Some sites, like Planet Namek, temporarily add AYBABTU to their pages. PN had it in their title tag for a couple of weeks. The first(?) two stores open, here and here. - First AYB merchandise The forums collapse in on themselves. Suddenly, the last couple of pages of the thread disappear. A short time after, somebody using a hacked moderator account deletes the first page of the thread. This basicially kills the thread, since it no longer appears in the listings. Finagler's archive of the early parts of the thread remains. People who had been exposed to the phenomeon (mostly 3D game fans) take it back to their own boards, and similar threads (often using the same pictures) are started. November (?) 14, 2000: JRR, one of the SA forum regulars, releases Invasion of the Gabber Robots, the Zero Wing remix. NOTE: I'm not 100% sure of the month - the thread is still archived, but the forum doesn't show months. It was most likely either November or December. - First AYB Music November 28, 2000: A report/poll on the US elections appears on Ars Techinca: All Your Votes Are Belong to Us!! Check the archive page here. December 16, 2000: Tribal War's thread begins. As this is one of the oldest remaining threads, they are often mistakenly given credit for starting the phenomeon. - Source of more pics, and the Flash January 12, 2001: Part 4 of "A Winner Is You," Hubert's game quote-based storyline is posted. It passes completely beneath the pop culture radar. - First AYB in a web comic January 14, 2001: Solidsharkey.com puts up a history. It's not as complete as this one, and may have some inaccuracies (WAS the Genesis version of ZW ever a US release? I can only find the info/ROM for a European version), but it is the first attempt at documenting ZW history. Note that I didn't find out about this until 10 minutes ago. February 11, 2001: Eskimo Bob posts Episode 12: AD 2101 - First AYB Flash February 12, 2001:the worlds first 'AYBABTU' inspired CD/Album was released on mp3.com by Paradise Decay. It features the Original "Invasion of the gabber robots" by kind permission of The Laziest Men on Mars February 13, 2001: memepool.com posts about AYBABTU. They link to the Tribal War thread. February 15, 2001: Bad_CRC of Tribal War releases the now-infamous music video. There are some copyright issues (permission wasn't asked to use JRR's song), but it continues to spread like wildfire. - Birth of the Flash, and most people's introduction to AYB February 16, 2001: Plastic reports the Flash video. Read the story and see comments here. Online comic EverCrest has an AYBABTU in this strip. February 18, 2001: Salamando's Stove posts an article called The Death of Zerowing, about the phrase's overuse. Seems it still has some life left in it, though... On a lighter note, web comic Avalon's guest strip features the Zero Wing dialog. February 19, 2001: GameFaqs posts a FAQ for Zero Wing (authored by Frank Provo), which includes a better translation taken from the Japanese version. id Software releases an add-on level pack for Quake 3: Team Arena. Here's a shot of a hidden message. - First AYB in a game other than Zero Wing February 20, 2001: The San Francisco Chronicle (both print & web versions) runs a story about AYBABTU. - First AYB in print OverClocked returns with a Zero Wing based comic. Around this time, "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" was accepted into Eijiro's database (I'm told it's the world's biggest online English-Japanese dictionary - the FAQ is here, but I can't read a word of it). It'll be added next update, which should be April or May sometime. February 21, 2001: Salon.com runs this story (scroll down a bit), about the US Army's use of the phrase, as well as a brief expanantion. Online comic Real Life has a (subtle) AYBABTU in this strip. Somebody chalks All Your Base Are Belong to Us on the roof of Wean Hall at Carnegie Mellon University. Photo 1 - Photo 2 - Photo 3 - First major real-life AYB February 22, 2001: The Register runs a story about AYBABTU. So does Newsbytes (a mention of the Flash movie, they seem to think the author did all the art). Story is here and here. Steve Jackson Games makes an AYBABTU related post and image, check here. February 23, 2001: AYBABTU is heard on Loveline, thanks to ShAyTaNa of the HardOCP forums. Part 1 (390k): The Prank. Part 2 (365k): The Explanation. Part 3 (167k): The Followup. MP3's converted & donated by Darren. - First AYB on the radio TechTV runs a story. They do provide a link back to SA, which is a nice change. Wired also runs a story. Kringlenet runs a story, too. And one more blurb at Netsurfer Digest. Those getting sick of the whole thing may be interested in this rant at seethru.co.uk. CATS and the now familiar phrase are seen in the background of this User Friendly strip. Gamespy.com posts this Dork Tower strip. Another strip, College Roomies from Hell!!! has a modified AYBABTU on a newspaper in this strip. Yet another one - Toonbots begins their AYBABTU ref. Segfault.org posts a href="http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3a969c70-097e9060" arget="_blank">this amusing correction. Another one at Steve Jackson Games - Due to a miscommunication, the poll for Pyramid Magazine is replaced with an AYBABTU one. February 24, 2001: Online comic Doctor Fun changes their logo to a CATS/AYBABTU one. The pic is mirrored here, just in case it gets changed. February 26, 2001: Time Magazine had a small article about it (Issue dated March 5). Scanned version here (scan by GODHED). Online version here. JRR finally gets credit! - First national media AYB As several people have informed me, the cancelled Fox TV show Freaky Links has had it's page replaced with AYBABTU. Sluggy Freelance features Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb and AYBABTU in the background of this strip. MyDivX.com posts an interesting image in one of their updates. MP3.com pulls Invasion of the Gabber Robots from TLMOM's site. They claim copyright violations, as the song uses Zero Wing samples. They don't seem to realize that Toaplan has been bankrupt and gone for 6 years. The SA thread where this is brought up is located here. AYBABTU-related posters were put up at Harvard - more information & photos can be found here and here. February 27, 2001: "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" makes its debut at #46 on the Lycos 50. Angelfire posts this page, which is where the Lycos 50 entry links. Invasion of the Gabber Robots is put back on MP3.com after they recieve numerous complaints about it's removal, and realize that Toaplan no longer exists. Finagler's archive is updated. The pics are now at full size, and the animated .gifs are included. There do still seem to be some missing, though. Neopets introduces a new shopkeeper - a cat-like CATS. Currently on the New Features page is a picture, captioned "All your Neopet are belong to us!" AYBABTU in real life - some guys put up a banner on a bridge in Australia. Another one - "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" was written in chalk all around the Georgia Tech campus. Another AYBABTU comic - check out this guest strip at PDI. February 28, 2001: The Lycos 50's article is up. Another User Friendly cartoon includes AYBABTU. The Guardian runs a story. Hmm... Mention of the Alf picture, DrEldarion's store, and credit to SomethingAwful - wonder if they've been here... March 1, 2001: The Detroit Free Press ran a story. It seems they forgot to give credit to JRR/TLMOM for the song (seemingly giving it to PlanetStarsiege) - anybody want to set them straight? NetSlaves posts a story. AYBABTU in this Soap on a Rope comic. Another AYBABTU in real life. At the University of Pennsylvania, pictures of their president Judy Rodin begin appearing. They have a speech bubble that says "All your base are belong to us." March 2, 2001: Somebody hacked Dutch Railways - All Your Trains are Belong to Us! Here's the report, and here's another. - First AYB hack Online comic Wendy gets in the now-obligatory Zero Wing joke in CUTEWendy. On the Ethermoon Entertainment forums, an employee posts a shot of the editing software for their upcoming game, Strifeshadow. See March 8 for the followup... March 3, 2001: The Daily Mirror runs a full-page story about AYBABTU, including a link to this web site! The Disco Scottie Show played Invasion of the Gabber Robots during the show - coming back from every break, as a matter of fact. - First Invasion of the Gabber Robots on radio The website for upcoming game Doom 3 launches - check the hidden text (Select all, try dragging underneath the logo, or view the source). I'm not sure of the date - IE properties said March 3, so that's what I'm using. If anybody knows otherwise, let me know. March 4, 2001: CATS-Mania infects HP: Check out the monitor on this page. - First AYB on a major corporation's page TechTV airs part of the flash. - First AYB on TV The Osdorp Posse's home page is hacked to include "What You Say?" in the main image map. The Dutch postcode lookup website was altered - ALL YOUR POSTCODE ARE BELONG TO US!! It's back to normal now. All Your Base with lasers at the Harshman dorm at Bowling Green State Univ in Ohio - Check it out here. AYBABTU is painted on Coolidge Bridge in Northampton, Mass. Photo 1 - Photo 2 On national television, someone in the crowd of the MU vs KU men's basketball game held up a sign that read "All your base are belong to us." Anybody have a screen capture? March 5, 2001: A story appeared in the Ottawa Citizen's techweekly section. Rare's web page is now showing some Zero Wing influence - hover your cursor over the title & Conker images. The Dutch website about the Euro was hacked to include "All you euro's are belong to us :-) who's next..." It's also back to normal now. WebWereld posts a story about the Dutch hacks. Some stories on World Online about the hacks and the phenomenon - The stories aren't dated, so I'm linking them here. The Phenomenon - All Your Trains - All Your Postcode - All Your Euros - Another Postcode one The Four Toon Tellers begin running a new banner ad. TheForce.net posts a story - Guess what's in it... This kind of defies description. Check the reader comments at the end. This arrangement of rocks was discovered at the University of California, San Diego campus. Thanks to Bernard for the picture! March 6, 2001: MP3.com's e-mail newsletter prominently features The Laziest Men on Mars and the AYBABTU video. mpXreview.com posts an article about the phenomeon. HugeDisk gives AYBABTU a passing mention. Computer gaming website Blue's News changes their tagline to "All your news are belong to us!" March 7, 2001: USA Today runs an article. "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" moves up 10 places to #36 on the Lycos 50. The Internet TOURBUS runs a story about the AYB "conspiracy." Not to mention changing their front page a bit... TheTripleHelix.com posts a short blurb - it also makes it into their poll (check the previous poll archive). The author of Schlock Mercenary declared he won't have AYBABTU in his strip. Ah, well - somebody had to. The Parking Lot is Full's author posts this... novelization? of the Zero Wing Intro. Kids - don't click those links. Rated M for Mature. Fourth and Inches, a comic in the Notre Dame newspaper the Observer, features an AYBABTU. I'll add a link once the page is working - it's down at the moment. Newgrounds sets up a page dedicated to AYB. One mistake I can see - they say that Eskimo Bob is parodying the original flash - Eskimo Bob was released a few days earlier. March 8, 2001: From a reader: "In a limited run of 200 from Steve Jackson Games, the now famous line appears prominently in bold at the bottom of the instruction sheet of a new game called Frag." Jiminy Critic, a movie review site, reviews the Flash. Audiogalaxy runs a story on Japanese Pop called "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" AYB sighted on the official Tomb Raider Movie web site - click on the "Image of the Week" link. As a result of the Ethermoon forum posting on March 2, a fan creates this Java game - watch the intro. The first AYB in a game (besides Zero Wing, of course)? Possibly. March 9, 2001: AYB on TV again - Fox News runs a story. Online version here. Check out this screenshot from Acclaim Sports' All Star Baseball 2002 - Looks like it's a fake shot. We'll have to see when it's released... Doomworld has a new pic of the day - CATS as the Doom 2 end boss. March 10, 2001: ESPN.com mentions AYB in a humor story. Reports indicate that somebody is posting AYBABTU stickers in Toronto. March 11, 2001: On TV again - Fox 4 in Dallas, TX did a story. So did Fox in Chicago - and it was recorded! Check out the movie here (capture by Marcus) VH1 has decided to jump on the bandwagon - check the title. The Dutch National Radio played Invasion of the Gabber Robots on the program "Cyber Top 50." All Your Base are Belong to Scooby Doo on When I Grow Up. An interesting story goes up on Celebrity Goo Game. On the official Star Wars web page, hover your mouse over this image. March 12, 2001: AYB appears in this installment of nationally syndicated comic strip Fox Trot. - First AYB in a syndicated newspaper comic AYB also makes an appearance on Steve Wozniak's page. Also in this story on the Cheadle Labour Party's site. - First AYB in politics March 13, 2001: Invasion of the Gabber Robots begins being broadcast regularly on cable/satellite music service DMX MUSIC, on their Euro Hits channel. An AYB image goes up on the front of a popular Dragon Ball Z page. Memepool posted a link to amiallyourbaseornot.com. March 14, 2001: ABC's "World News Now" ran a story. A Vectrex version of the Zero Wing intro is made. It can be found here. March 15, 2001: An article appears in the LA Times. March 21, 2001: AYBABTU on the front page of the Onion. Archived here. I got this story from a TON of people, but the first was Gabe Jones. Thanks! April 11, 2001: AYBABTU appears on Microsoft's Office XP age. Do a rollover on the left column, or just click here to see the picture. The irony he
This article seems like something you'll find in a fansite rather than an encyclopeida. Don't you agree. GreaterWikiholic 03:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
This section seems to be original research and should probably be cut. Bulbous 18:27, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Now there is no proper translation at all (not in WikiQuote either). Translating some text always involves some understanding of context, but that does not mean it is original research. I think it should return. --Edokter (Talk) 15:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I think a notable reference should be added, in the first installment of the SOCOM series by Zipper interactive, the narrarator will say "Target destroyed, SEALS Victorious! ... All your base are belong to us." When the SEAL team wins by demolishion on the swamp map "The Ruins".
On Newgrounds, it is called 'All Your Base R Belong to us'. It might have been shortened to save space, I don't know.
24.17.233.201 04:48, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Is the reference in xkcd (http://xkcd.com/286/) significant enough to warrant entry? 79.65.205.93 23:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
This section has been identifed as Trivia and is in Violation of the WP:TRIV policy and should be intgrated into the main article. Much of that stuff as shown there can very easily be included in other sections if not thier own. See WP:HTRIVIA to help you guys out with this problem. Sawblade05 02:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)