All Your Base Are Belong to Us!!The History: hubert.retrogames.com/article. php?sid=1 The Flash Movie: www.people.fas.harvard.edu/[sim]pyang/base/allyourbase.swf The Story: www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/ story.shtml The amazing story of a pop-cultural meme and its spread through the global network to the general public. A line from the Japanese video game Zero Wing was poorly translated, in its English release, as "All Your Base Are Belong to Us "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. " and quickly became a running gag The running gag is a popular hallmark of comic and serious forms of entertainment. A running gag is an amusing situation or line that reappears throughout the work. They are often unintentional at first, but familiarity or popularity of such gags among viewers encourage their in the gaming community A gaming community is usually a group of like minded individuals working towards a goal (such as promoting fair play and team work) or supporting each other within games (usually online video games such as MMORPG's or FPS's) RTS(real time strategy) games are developing larger , inspiring numerous enthusiasts to create Photoshop-manipulated images embedding the phrase. A Flash movie incorporating many of these images further contributed to the cult, which has exploded: This year, AYB AYB All Your Base (Are Belong to Us) AYB Atlantic Youth Bowling AYB Accessory Bulletin AYB Are You Bored? AYB All Your Base Are Belong to Us made it into Lycos's Top 50 and stories about it appeared in mainstream media from Time magazine to USA Today and Fox News. One might speculate that there's an intrinsic connection between the global domination fantasies of shooter video games, the easy appropriation and dissemination of information through a global network, and the pitfalls--linguistic and cultural--of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation . |
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