25 years ago, one of the first Internet meme’s took the net (and real life) by the storm. I am talking about “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” which was making fun of a bad translation of a Japanese videogame.
In honor of the anniversary Jamie Zawinski, downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of “Invasion of the Gabber Robots” by The Laziest Men on Mars. The updated/clean version is now posted on Youtube and you can watch it in all it’s glory there:
All your Base are belong to us
Transcript:
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 …
Operator: Captain !!
Captain: Take off every ‘ZIG’!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move ‘ZIG’.
Captain: For great justice.
Folks nowadays are so used to things going viral that it is hard for them to realize how big of a phenomenon this was (along with the Alien song). I have posted about this earlier as well. Talking about it has made me want to look up the Alien Song, so will do that now.
That’s all for now. Will post more later.
Source: jwz.org: All Your Base, slight remaster (via: mastodon.social)