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title: "All your base are belong to us"
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# All your base are belong to us

HTML: [All your base are belong to us](https://openvibe.meme/m/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us)

Internet meme · Classic

# All your base are belong to us

An Internet meme based on a badly translated line from a video game’s opening cutscene, which became a widely spread catchphrase and meme.

- First seen: 1989-01-01
- Last seen: 2026-10-31
- Uses cited: 4
- Revision: 2

## Where it started

"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive conversion of the 1989 Japanese arcade game. By the early 2000s, a GIF animation depicting the opening text became widespread on web forums. A music video accompanied by a techno remix of the clip, originally posted on the website Newgrounds, gained popularity and became a derivative Internet meme in its own right. The original meme has been referenced many times in media outside of the forums. The original phrase in Japanese, uttered by the enigmatic antagonist "CATS", is "君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた" (Hepburn Romanization: Kimitachi no kichi wa subete CATS ga itadaita), which can be translated more accurately as "All of your bases have been taken over by CATS" (see the transcript below).

## The use timeline

1. 1989-01-01

    

   Badly translated English from the opening cutscene of the European Mega Drive version of the 1989 arcade game Zero Wing. It has become a catchphrase, inspiring videos and other derivative works.
2. 1989-01-01

    

   Wikidata Q54: All your base are belong to us — Internet meme about the poor translation from Japanese to English of a quote from a video game.

## Examples

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