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All Your Base Are Turned Five
Subm writes "All your base are turned five! According to AYBABTU: The History, 'June 5, 2000: The Zero Wing Dub Project is posted at OverClocked - the first original AYB humor.' Before then there was only an oddly (brilliantly?) translated game. But five years ago, someone set up us the bomb!" The Flash Video is, of course, still available.
all your base are belong to us
....
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.
I remember the day that I saw the flash movie (on gaming force I think)- it literally dropped me to the floor.
Time sure goes fast...Or am I just getting too old for my own good?
The game was made by Toaplan, but I've had no success in finding any references to any specifc translator. Perhaps to was Google Translator '89?
I think one of my favorite ones was still the all your base set to Bohemian Rhapsody:
http://www.pwned.nl/ayb/
Whoever modded this offtopic is in sore need of understanding.
The parent post refers to another video game that also was not well translated, namely the American Final Fantasy II. At one point, a character named Bard (Who is a Bard) is moping over the meaninglessness of his existance. Another character, Tellah, cracks him on the head and shouts, "You Spoony Bard!"
For a picture of Bard and Tellah, just go to the games page. Bard is standing on the left, with blond hair and a red cap, and Tellah is on the right with white beard and hair and a purple robe and glasses.
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
I'm also unsure of my usage of "it's" in this post.
If that is true, and you weren't just adding to the humor of the "grammar nazi in jest" content, there is an easy way to remember when to use it's versus its. Because it's is a contraction, you can always use the full it is whenever it's is appropriate. So try saying it is in your head, and see if it sounds correct. If it does, use it's. If not, use its.
In your post, you should have used its, because it isn't correct to say, "I realized it is name..."
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I also like ThinkGeek's rendition.
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The phrase is actually All your base are belong to us.
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If anyone is interested, this is how the manual puts it (yes, I actually have the game):
Space Piracy
The year is 2101 A.D. The Milky Way Federation, the galaxy's governing body, has made public its (sic) plans to construct stategic defense bases in eight different locations. The purpose of the bases is protection against intergalactic crime. The Federation's prime concern is a band of space piractes led by Cats, the flamboyant cosmic freebooter who is secretly plotting his biggest performance...
Two years later, the bases were completed and operational. Despite the new defense network, tragedy struck. Ten Strike Force attack craft docked aboard the Federation 1011 Star Cruiser were destroyed by a bomb that had been planted aboard the mother ship!
Shortly after the explosion, the ship's operator recieved an odd signal. The Captain ordered the viewer turned on, and who should appear but Cats himself!
"Nice to see you all. I've taken control of each and every one of your bases. Today will go down in history as the day the Milky Way Federation was destroyed by one man - me! Ha ha ha ha..."
One attack craft remained undamaged. The Captain, without hesitation, ordered the ZIG-01 "Zero Wing" into battle. You must fly the attack ship to each friendly base and drive Cats' forces out. The fate of an entire galazy rests on your shoulders!
The only things I can note about this is that Cats is "flamboyant", make of that what you will, and that this seems to imply your ship is the only one working, yet the intro seems to imply at least three Zigs are working.
Later the Getting Started bit of the manual suggests "Follow the story screens to get a better feel for the task you're about to take on." I kinda feel that advice may leave someone far more confused than if they just read the story bit of the manual really.
And no, I will not transcribe the other seven language versions that are in the manual.
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
Here is a "good" translation.
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
Erm -- the bard is named Edward in the American translation, Gilbert in the original Japanese version. And if I recall correctly, the reason Tellah was thrashing Edward was because he (who was actually the prince of Damcyan) ran off with Tellah's daughter, and his daughter was killed in an attack on Edward's castle. So, "You spoony bard!" was a rather awkward thing to yell out when most people would've be cursing..
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I had to look this up just to verify that and yeah its correct according to various sites including the Air Force's Air University Webpage.
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