Re: All your base are belong to us

[Robbie Honerkamp <robbie@shorty.com>]

Thus spake Ben Combee (combee@techwood.org):

> Apparently, this has become a bit of a phenomenon.
> 
> One site with both the Flash and Quicktime is www.movezig.com, although the 
> Flash movie has an extended ending from what I saw on alt.binaries.slack.

Those damned cats, always taking our base.

I hadn't seen the flash animation yet- the ending is great!

You can find an animated GIF of the intro, as well as some 
pictures from the game (and some dancing California Raisins
from the end of the game) here:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rosshm/zerowing.html

Another reference to this was in Monday's Sluggy Freelance
cartoon.
http://www.sluggy.com/d/010226.html

Work has begun on the all-important task of translating this
into other languages (from Slashdot and Crackmonkey):

 In A.D. MMCI
 Bellum incipit.

 Caput: Quid occure ?
 Operator: Aliquid ad constituit nobis hoc combustum.
 Operator: Nos obtinete signum
 Caput: Quid !
 Operator: Prime vise inverse.
 Caput: Tu est !!
 FELIES: Quomodo vales eques !!
 FELIES: Omnes castrum tuum sunt proprium ab nobis
 FELIES: Estis in via ad perditio
 Caput: Quid tu voce !!
 FELIES: Non fortem habes superstare crete tempus tuum
 FELIES: HA HA HA HA ....
 Caput: Emittete omnies `zig`
 Caput: Scitis quid vos agens
 Caput: Movete `zig`
 Caput: Per justem maximam

And from the Crackmonkey mailing list, a translation into
Usenet-ese:
http://crackmonkey.org/pipermail/crackmonkey/2001q1/017473.html

Those are just the links I knew about. To give an example of how
fast things spread around the Internet, a quick google search
turns up:

Shirts and stuff at Cafepress:
http://www.cafepress.com/movezig/

Another CafePress shirt:
http://www.cafepress.com/dreldarion/

A collection of ZeroWing stuff:
http://www.nls.net/mp/prj/

Tons of pictures that people have resubtitled (some people
apparently don't have jobs or anything):
http://members.nbci.com/finagler/base/

Robbie