A declaration of victory or superiority. The phrase stems from a 1991 adaptation of Toaplan's "Zero Wing" shoot-'em-up arcade game for the Sega Genesis game console. A brief introduction was added to the opening screen, and it has what many consider to be the worst Japanese-to-English translation in video game history. The introduction shows the bridge of a starship in chaos as a Borg-like figure named CATS materializes and says, "How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us." sic In 2001, this amusing mistranslation spread virally through the internet, bringing with it a slew of JPEGs and a movie of hacked photographs, each showing a street sign, store front, package label, etc. hacked to read "All your base are belong to us" or one of the other many supremely dopey lines from the game (such as "Somebody set us up the bomb!!!" or "What happen?"). When these phrases are used properly, the overall effect is both screamingly funny and somewhat chilling, reminiscent of the B movie "They Live".

The original has been generalized to "All your X are belong to us", where X is filled in to connote a sinister takeover of some sort. Thus, "When Joe signed up for his new job at Yoyodyne, he had to sign a draconian NDA. It basically said, `All your code are belong to us.'" Has many of the connotations of "Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated"

A Japanese Genesis game called zero-wing got poorly translated into English. This sentence is now spread all over the internet.

All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that sparked an internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of a Flash animation that depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the European Sega Mega Drive version of Zero Wing, a Japanese video game by Toaplan which was rushed and so was rather poorly translated into English, and is often regarded as butchering the English language.

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All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us is created using the same video game animation as used in All Your Base Are Belong To Us. The video can be found on the website of the same name, and is unique in that it alters the dialogue found in the 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' and uses different images containing the 'all your snakes are belong to us' phrase.

All your snakes are belong to us can also be use as a victorious battle cry after having achieved something.

Inspired by the badass movie "Snakes on a Plane", starring the Number 1 badass himself, Samuel L. Jackson.

Infamous mistranslated line from Zero Wing(1991) Correctly, this would read " All of your bases belong to us." This is so popular it has randomly been observed drawn by sticks in Nevada. Aliens

1.This is a famous phrase from the game Zero Wing said by the all mighty cats

2. In Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, if you type this in you automatically win the level (only in single player).

1. An exclamation of superiority
2. Phrase exclaimed when the opposite team/opponent is pwned or defeated.
3. Phrase taken from Zero Wing, a poorly translated Japanese-to-English video game, in which the character Cats exclaims.

The phrase 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' is known as a "Gaming Phenomenon". It origionates from the game 'Zero Wing',with a very bad Japanese-to-English translated intro to boot. It is considered one of the worst translations in gaming history. Commonly seen in Multiplayer Games such as Counter Strike, Call Of Duty ect, usually in team gameplay, when one team totally defeats another (See : Pwnage), it will likely be said by the winning team, to dictate that 'All your bases' now belong to them.
However can also be used in a deathmatch gamemode, if one single player stands out above the rest (See also : owned). Sometimes is also followed up by the line (from the same game) "You have no chance to survive, make your time."

Also used when the Terrorists destroy the objective in the de_ (Demolition) gamemode is the line "What Happen?" followed by "Somebody set up us the bomb!".
These are all lines from 'Zero Wing'.