{"id":8225,"date":"2026-02-17T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:33:20","slug":"25th-anniversary-of-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/25th-anniversary-of-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Anniversary of &#8220;All your base are belong to us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago, one of the first Internet meme&#8217;s took the net (and real life) by the storm. I am talking about &#8220;All Your Base Are Belong To Us&#8221; which was making fun of a bad translation of a Japanese videogame. <\/p>\n<p>In honor of the anniversary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwz.org\/about.html\">Jamie Zawinski<\/a>, 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 &#8220;Invasion of the Gabber Robots&#8221; by The Laziest Men on Mars. The updated\/clean version is now posted on Youtube and you can watch it in all it&#8217;s glory there:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Your Base Are Belong To Us (slight remaster)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orY1RztncqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAll your Base are belong to us<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Captain: What happen ?<br \/>\nMechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.<br \/>\nOperator: We get signal.<br \/>\nCaptain: What !<br \/>\nOperator: Main screen turn on.<br \/>\nCaptain: It\u2019s you !!<br \/>\nCATS: How are you gentlemen !!<br \/>\nCATS: All your base are belong to us.<br \/>\nCATS: You are on the way to destruction.<br \/>\nCaptain: What you say !!<br \/>\nCATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.<br \/>\nCATS: Ha ha ha ha \u2026<br \/>\nOperator: Captain !!<br \/>\nCaptain: Take off every \u2018ZIG\u2019!!<br \/>\nCaptain: You know what you doing.<br \/>\nCaptain: Move \u2018ZIG\u2019.<br \/>\nCaptain: For great justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us-turns-20\/\">earlier as well<\/a>. Talking about it has made me want to look up the Alien Song, so will do that now. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. Will post more later.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/jwz.org\/b\/yk3i\">jwz.org: All Your Base, slight remaster<\/a> (via: <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jwz\/116082431316722726\">mastodon.social<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago, one of the first Internet meme&#8217;s took the net (and real life) by the storm. I am talking about &#8220;All Your Base Are Belong To Us&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}