All your base are belong to us

I cannot imagine my blog without a post about an internet phenomenon during the early years of this decade. This was sometime during the year 2001 when a Japanese video game made by Sega was translated into English language (Zero Wing) , in a rather hasty manner. It led to several spoofs and parodies and still garners interest among quite a few internet users. This iconic cut-scene from the game is often regarded as the height of English language butchery.

The original cut scene from the game :



Transcript:
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha ....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.

If Sega had hired translators rather than make their Japanese geeks translate , the non-literal translation would've been so :

AD 2101―
A battle has begun.
Captain: Tell me what happened!
Engineer: It seems someone installed explosives unnoticed.
Communication operator: Captain! Receiving transmission!
Captain: What?
Communication operator: Visual incoming on the main screen.
Captain: Identify yourself!
CATS: (You) Look busy, gentlemen.
CATS: Assisted by the Federation Government forces, CATS have taken over your base completely.
CATS: Your ship is about to meet its doom as well.
Captain: This is absurd!
CATS: Thank you for your cooperation.
CATS: Cherish these few remaining moments of your lives.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha ha...
Communication operator: Captain....
Captain: (I) Order launching all ZIG units!!
Captain: Entrusting them is the only option left....
Captain: The hope of our future...
Captain: (We're) Counting on you, ZIG!!

And now , The parodies :)





Some more text spoofs :

AYBABTU in Invasion of Normandy

In A.D. 1944
War was ending.
Adolf Hitler: Vat happen ?
Heinrich Himmler: Somebody set up us the D-Day
Joseph Goebbels: Ve get allies.
Hitler: Vat !
Goebbels: Main screen turn on.
Hitler: It's you !!
Harry Truman: How are you nazis !!
Truman: All your Normandy are belong to U.S.
Truman: You are on the way to invasion.
Hitler: Vat you say !!
Truman: You have no chance to fight back make suicide.
Truman: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
Goebbels: Fürher !!
Hitler: Take every cyanide pill.
Hitler: I know vat I döing.
Hitler: Svallow pill.
Hitler: Für great suicide.

AYB Are Belong to the Blair Witch

In A.D. 1994
Film was beginning.
Heather: What happen?
Michael: Somebody set up us the horror.
Joshua: We get chilling ritualistic figures.
Heather: What?
Joshua: Main camera start rolling.
Heather: It's you!
Blair Witch: How are you filmmakers.
Blair Witch: All your camera are belong to us.
Blair Witch: You are on the way to disappearing.
Heather: What you say!!
Blair Witch: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Blair Witch: Ha ha ha ha...
Joshua: Heather!
Heather: Take off every compass.
Heather: You know what you doing.
Heather: Move compass.
Heather: For great documentary.