All Your Base Are Belong To Us Cup

[FNBrown]

Ok... I'm thinking there's some fellow Civ3 players over on the SimulatedSports Horse Racing game - http://simulatedsports.net/hr

Somebody decided to name a stakes race after one of our favorite catch phrases...

... Just wondering if it's anyone here at Apolyton...

[Scooby_Doo]

Just out of interest, where does that "All your bases are belong to us" thing come from?
Sorry, not to change the thread totally, I was just interested.

[Flight]

http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml

[FNBrown]

... and I thought it was just a Civ3 thing...

Color me stupid...

[Worthingtons]

All your base are belong to us, was some wierd thing the AI says to you in diplomacy. I thought it was very strange when I saw it and presumed it to be a silly error. I laughed histerically when i saw it in Vel 'For the Glory of Rome' story.

[FNBrown]

Yes... but after examining the link that Flight posted above, it appears that the Firaxis programmers were simply throwing a little "inside joke" out there...

Which means that the reference I saw in that Horse Racing game I play online could have come from anywhere... not just another Civ3 player..

[DarkCloud]

I think that "all your base are belong to us" originally surfaced when a certian high profile website was defaced

[Skanky Burns]

This many people don't know?!?

The phrase "All your base are belong to us" was originally from the game Zero Wing, which was badly translated into English. Following is the actual conversation in the introduction, containing the AYB phrase.

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.

[FNBrown]

I never played Zero Wing... never even heard of it before I saw that website earlier today...

and I thought I was a real geek... guess I'm just not quite world-class...

[Spec]

What is that??: All Your Base Are Belong To Us Cup

I live in montreal and there are flyers everywhere saying just that! I see them in windows, on the street, everywhere!?
Can someone tell me what it means please!


Spec.

[godinex]

yES i`M INTERESTED TOO.

[klesh]

All Our Base Belong to Hitler!!!

This 'All Your Base' business is as old as the 'net.

-FMK.

[Thrawn05]

I HATE that saying. It's so old.