# All your base are belong to us

> A game mistranslation spread through Flash; a study counted 7,070 monthly Usenet matches.

- Owner: null
- Kind: Meme & format
- Sector: Culture (no sector)
- Seed date: Feb 1999
- Observed peak date: Mar 2001
- Date basis: Observed peak within the documented measurement window; not an all-time maximum. Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.
- Spread Score: 70 (Viral, provisional), v1.3
- Mechanics: Catchphrase, Identity badge, Platform jump, Press loop, Controversy

## Summary

A Zero Wing opening GIF became a forum joke, and users edited the phrase into photographs. A Flash video paired the images with a techno remix and reached the wider web. Shirts and later software references followed.

## Timeline

- Feb 1999 — Teel / Zany Video Game Quotes (Open web) — Zany Video Game Quotes featured the opening GIF in an index linked to a February archive.
- Nov 2000 — Jeffrey Ray Roberts / The Laziest Men on Mars (Audio) — Jeffrey Ray Roberts remixed the dialogue and game music into Invasion of the Gabber Robots.
- 2001-02-16 — Bad-CRC / Newgrounds (Open web) — Bad-CRC uploaded a Flash video combining the remix with images made by forum users.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/developers).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/all-your-base

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “All your base are belong to us.” Case HIS-01456. Spread Score v1.3: 70/100. Updated 2026-10-23. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-01456