References in Mass Media and Elsewhere
The phrase or some variation of lines from the game has appeared in numerous articles, books, comics, clothing, movies, radio shows, songs, television shows, video games, webcomics, and websites.
Notable mentions include:
In late 2000, Kansas City computer programmer and part-time DJ Jeffrey Ray Roberts 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 with a voice-over phrase "All your base are belong to us."
On February 23, 2001, Wired provided an early report on the phenomenon, covering it from the Flash animation to its spread through e-mail and Internet forums to T-shirts bearing the phrase.
In the 2002 album Thought for Food by New York duo The Books, one track is titled "All Our Base Are Belong To Them" after the famous quote.
In one episode of Sgt. Frog, Keroro is daydreaming about what he would do if he were rich; he then says "all your Gundam are belong to us".
On April 1, 2003, in Sturgis, Michigan, seven people aged 17 to 20 placed signs all over town that read, "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time." They claimed to be playing an April Fool's joke but most people who saw the signs were unfamiliar with the phrase. Many residents were upset that the signs appeared while the U.S. was at war with Iraq and police chief Eugene Alli said the signs could be "a borderline terrorist threat depending on what someone interprets it to mean."
In February 2004, North Carolina State University students and members of TheWolfWeb in Raleigh, North Carolina exploited a web-based service provided for local schools and businesses to report a weather-related closing to display the phrase within a news ticker on a live news broadcast on News 14 Carolina.
On June 1, 2006, the video hosting website YouTube was taken down temporarily for maintenance. The phrase "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" appeared below the YouTube logo as a placeholder while the site was down. Some users believed the site had been hacked, leading the host to add the message "No, we haven't been hacked. Get a sense of humor."
In 2008, the band Weezer released the music video for their song Pork and Beans. The video references dozens of internet memes, and includes a frame of "All Your Base" (with the pixelized face of Chris Crocker replacing that of CATS) saying "All Your Pork And Beans Are Belong To Us".
In 2009, scientists at the ETH Zurich wrote to a program called AYB, used for the analysis of modified nucleobases of RNA.
On December 13, 2010, the song "My Feelings for You" by DJs Avicii and Sebastien Drums was released. Its music video makes reference to this citation stating "All your feelings are belong to us...".
On December 2, 2011, a team calling itself "All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S." won the DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011, requiring reassembly of five documents from shredded fragments in order to answer questions about the coded messages.
On November 17, 2012 The hacker group "Anonymous" issued this statement in response to digital warfare with the state of Israel and the IDF : " Israel, All your base are belong to us"
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