He stated the poor English translation in the Mega Drive version was handled by a member of Toaplan in charge of export and overseas business. The meme was addressed by Toaplan's Tatsuya Uemura (the game's programmer and composer) and Masahiro Yuge (composer) in interviews during the 2010s. The meme's popularity was seen throughout the early 2000s when it was broadcast onto the ticker of a Raleigh, North Carolina TV channel, used as a placeholder message while YouTube was undergoing maintenance, and reproduced onto T-shirts. The video was shared rapidly, soon becoming an Internet meme and receiving widespread media attention.

On 16 February 2001, user Bad_CRC posted an animated music video accompanying the song onto the Flash game and animation sharing site Newgrounds. In November 2000, Kansas City computer programmer, Something Awful forum member, and part-time disc jockey Jeffrey Ray Roberts (1977–2011) of the gabber band The Laziest Men on Mars, made a techno dance track, 'Invasion of the Gabber Robots', which remixed some of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura and Noriyuki Iwadare with a voice-over phrase 'All your base are belong to us'. The first references could be seen in 1999 and the early 2000s when an animated GIF of the scene appeared on forums and sites like Zany Video Game Quotes, OverClocked, and TribalWar forums. The European release of the game on the Sega Mega Drive was in July 1991. Zero Wing was released in Japanese arcades by developer Toaplan on 1 July 1989, and in North America in April 1990. Newgrounds post where the music video was posted YouTube video of the opening sequence, featuring the line For the full English-language transcript, see the quotations related to Zero Wing at Wikiquoteīelow are some other examples of text as it appeared in the poorly translated English release, alongside a more accurate translation from the original Japanese.Įngineer: It appears someone has planted explosives.

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